Slavery is a huger part in American history as well as world history. It has had a ginormous impact on society and has made a lot of races dislike the way they were treated and believe me they are mad for good reason. From what I've learned this past unit is that slavery is probably the best and worst thing that ever happened to America. Sure it helped America grow vastly in economics and made life a lot easier for most but also created really bad racial views and enlarged the way most people see African Americans. These African Americans were treated worse than murderers rapers and thieves. They weren't even treated as human beings. They were treated less than that. While they were being treated like crap the white men didn't want to look bad for doing bad so they decided to slap a happy slave on a lunch box with his trademark smile and tell people that selves were better this way they had homes and people to care for the. And sadly this carried on for longer than it ever should have even after alot of deep into the mid 1900s there were still textbooks with that trademark smile on a slave and story's about how good life was "before the war." This stuff just blew me away how states like Alabama had textbooks that sugar coated slavery for the the safety of white mans reputation it's just absolutely awful how things went down for African Americans everywhere.