slavery

I honestly do not understand how one human being could possible treat another human being as bad as slaves were treated.  It's just sad that people are capable of such cruel and thoughtless behavior.  I feel so bad for anyone who has or even is apart of anything like slavery.  I mean having someone else own you and your freedom has to just be the absolute worst.  The accounts that mention the brutail beating the slaves recieved if they misbehaved were awful.  I mean just a simple thing like not being able to work as fast as someone else would get a slave beaten or whipped to the point that their skin opened and bleeding occured.  Just to stop and think that I though a little spanking was horrible when I was little, and these slaves were beaten practically to death for things like not working fast enough.  I also cannot imagine having bells be the thing that run my life.  A few of the accounts tell stories of a bell going off and its time for work, another to eat and a final one for sleep and that is how a slaves day went.  That is just awful.  It was however nice to see that a few slave owners treated their slaves as decent people and were nice to them.  It gives me a little hope for human kindness to expand.