ANDREW BANDABAILA
                                                                                                                                                   PERIOD 5

SUFFRAGE

Suffrage has changed a lot when you compare things to how they used to be.Suffrage was very bad a long time ago. Blacks did not get the treatment they deserved.They deserved to be treated like regular people and not like animals.Women were also mistreated.Women were turned down from having the same obligations as men had.In the book kindred by Octavia butler,her main point is that slaves needed to fight back and become free.Some slaves stopped listening to their masters so that they could become free.

We can see examples of this change in women’s roles throughout history.In 1642 it was required for a man living in Massachusetts colony to lead his family in prayer and catechism.One way suffrage has changed overtime is before women were not allowed to vote but now they are able to.They also were not able to run for anything in the political branch but now they can.In 1910 Washington had become the first state to let women vote and six years later the first birth control clinic was opened by Margaret Sanger,an active feminist.Some of the slaves were fed up and so they wrote their own passes to freedom.others who were too scared to do that just married white people.

Another example of suffrage is how racism has changed over the years.Before you would be able to kill a black person and not get much of a punishment for it.If a black person were to kill a white they would probably be killed.Blacks were called monkeys and were not shown any respect.People need to recognize each other in a positive way.Slaves did not like being treated this way so they rebelled against their masters and escaped.

A long time ago people suffered by not having sanitized places and that got them sick.They died when they were ill because they did not have any medication to cure themselves.Now we have toilets,showers,electricity,laundry utensils,and technology has improved modern living.Now we have well educated doctors and dentist that know what they are doing.In the wars when a person was wounded they would just saw off their limbs without any morphine.They would tie up the person and put a stick in their mouth so there wouldn’t be any yelling.The world didn’t have a lot  access to food and water.It was also very hard to have fast transportation.Some of the slaves educated themselves and one another so they could write papers to people who could probably help stop slavery.

In conclusion, a lot has changed for the better over the decades.Now blacks are treated like regular people but are feared because of things they hear about them.Women are able to do the same type of work that men are allowed to do.Now we have sanitized places and cleaning supplies.We have college educated doctors,nurses,and dentist.I am very thankful that I don’t have a good healthy life and do not have to go through what many other people had to witness or be apart of.Some slaves that were very upset at their owners murdered them and others joined the army which was their way out of slavery.