As any other monument in DC, the slavery monument is one of great importance.   All should see it as it represents what America has become today.     Although ugly and grotesque, slavery played a great part in the shaping of our country.   Shipped from the lands of Africa, Africans became the laborers of the United States.   They were forced to work for the settlers here, with no pay and under brutal living conditions.   However,it is their race that helped this country expand economically.   The slaves were the backbone of America and it was the white race that rested on their shoulders.   They watched over the production of the land and took credit for all of the advancements that the blacks had contributed to.     The whites were literally on top and the blacks on the bottom, suffering all the way through even though both are equal in standing.   As time has passed blacks were able to obtain certain inalienable rights and become independent from white oppression.   And as time continues on, they are slowly able to live together in a world peacefully  without segregation and without difference.   Someday blacks and whites will no longer be separated by color lines and live at peace with on another.