There Is No Such Thing as Rest
By: Tina Baker

Slavery in some ways is still around even today. When we hire a maid, butler, or a chauffeur in some ways is still slavery. They have to work for us for a certain amount of money, and cook, clean raise our kids, and do the grocery shopping. So really slavery isn’t abolished.
Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 solidified the central importance of slavery to the South's economy. By the mid-19th century, America's westward expansion, along with a growing abolition movement in the North, would provoke a great debate over slavery that would tear the nation apart in the bloody American Civil War (1861-65). Though the Union victory freed the nation's 4 million slaves, the legacy of slavery continued to influence American history, from the tumultuous years of Reconstruction (1865-77) to the civil rights movement that emerged in the 1960s, a century after emancipation.
The old slave owners used to use their christianity as a way to justify the way they treated their slaves saying "god told them to do the things they did".
Society views slavery as wrong, now that it is illegal. Some people in the southern states though, still don’t like black people to live in their town. I went to Corbin, Kentucky to visit with my husbands family and learned that black people were hung from a bridge there in town. This is how the south still feels to this day about blacks. They even had a sign on the bridge that states: “Nig** don’t let the sun set on your back” (I don’t like