Free The Slaves: Article Analysis

John. W. Blessingame, The Slave Community: The Plantation Life in The Antebellum South (Oxford University Press, Inc: 1972, 1979).

When the New World began to evolve, the new European settlers were hungry for power and wealth. The Europeans were desperate to prove that they too had the ability to flourish as a nation. Though settlers throughout the American colonies struggled to survive due to famine and disease, they quickly found a solution that would generate immense amounts of income and quickly turn America into a world threat. With the addition of slavery to the American workforce, profit increased and improved. Slavery brought the Europeans exactly what they wanted; power and money. During the period of 1607-1763, slavery grew dramatically due to Bacon’s Rebellion and the Atlantic Slave Trade, causing it to develop into an essential for Europeans settlers in

No story can be told without some sort of characters, 12 Years of Slave has many characters the main protagonist being Solomon Northrup. Within the novel it is accustom to give a description each character as to help the reader see them in their mind. This however is not common practice in this story though, many people come and go throughout the story, at the time it feels confusing. Why would an author tell you about someone by name and give you a tiny tidbit about their life or have them be apart of the story for a few pages then never be mentioned again or described. Chapter and chapter again it happens. At first with all the new characters it easy to think that you have forgotten a name and it's the same person. Except thinking this would

If you were born in the 1860’s would you’ve owned slaves? Chances are you probably would have. If you owned slaves you probably treated them like objects that you owned and who have no rights. Slave owners barely fed slaves and they were treated poorly. When slaves were freed they didn't have equal rights, Not only were slaves not equal in society, but they also had to have church apart from whites as well as other public areas were segregated.

In 1928 Ulrich B. Phillips wrote an argumentative essay about the reasons for the massive support that slavery received from both slaveowners and Southerners who didn’t possess slaves. The essay was well-received and supported by critics in the 1930-s. However, closer to 1950-s critics started doubting the objectivity of Phillip’s writing. It’s important to note that Ulrich B. Phillips is a white historian from the South, writing from a perspective of a white Southerner. When he was writing his article he failed to step back from his bias and provide fully objective support for the main theme of his argument, setting a doubt to the reliability of his work.

Have you ever tried to imagine slavery? Picture this, you and your family having a nice dinner and out of nowhere someone kicks in your front door and takes you away from your family. Scared and confused, you are constantly hit and yelled at but you don’t understand the language. You are loaded up on a ship as you set sail for a new world that you know nothing about. All without your permission. From reading and looking at documents A- E I’ve discovered that the European people had to fan out and search for someone who they could get labor off of while making them feel inferior, to display what would happen if they were to go rebel against their masters, and to follow the plan that God had for slaves.

The United Sates is a country based on the principles of liberty and independence and "inalienable rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," Yet for over 200 years, America has denied fellow human beings their basic human rights in their institution of slavery.

During the 1840s, America saw increasingly attractive settlements forming between the North and the South. The government tried to keep the industrial north and the agricultural south happy, but eventually the issue of slavery became too big to handle, no matter how many treaties or compromises were formed. Slavery was a huge issue that unraveled throughout many years of American history and was one of the biggest contributors leading up to the Civil War (notes, Fall 2015). Many books have been written over the years about slavery and the brutality of the life that many people endured. In “A Slave No More”, David Blight tells the story about two men, John M. Washington (1838-1918) and Wallace Turnage (1846-1916), struggling during American slavery. Their escape to freedom happened during America’s bloodiest war among many political conflicts, which had been splitting the country apart for many decades. As Blight (2007) describes, “Throughout the Civil War, in thousands of different circumstances, under changing policies and redefinitions of their status, and in the face of social chaos…four million slaves helped to decide what time it would be in American History” (p. 5). Whether it was freedom from a master or overseer, freedom from living as both property and the object of another person’s will, or even freedom to make their own decisions and control their own life, slaves wanted a sense of independence. According to Blight (2007), “The war and the presence of Union armies

After reading the assigned literature, I have now cast a light on several issues that are currently causing problems today. The article titled, “Let’s Make A Slave,” was depressing because it almost forced one to go back in time and feel the plight of Africans Americans before slavery was outlawed. William Lynch traveled a great ways to inform the people of the Virginia Colony about slavery and how it should truly be done. As I was reading, it seemed as though William Lynch was reading the instructions for a product (and not a human being) but he actually was talking about people (African Americans). The speech that he prepared was delivered was so much conviction that it made it very hard to believe that African Americans could have been treated any other way. The Europeans (during slavery) did not respect Black people and regarded to them as “uncivilized niggers” (The Black Arcade Liberation Library, 1970,p2) and sought nothing more than to treat them like the “money making machines” they were.

The article on “slave no more” was written by David Blight. The article is about a period in the history of America when two men, Washington and Turnage, escaped the hands of slavery. Even though it is not clear whether the slaves freed themselves or were freed by Lincoln, some literature tells that both literature and the 16th American president could be liable for their release. These two men were born at a period when union forces and the civil war was advancing in their hometown. The article was written some months before the emancipation proclamation. Washington had escaped through the Rappahannock River in efforts to free himself. He was among the rare children who had learnt to read and write ever since he was a child. His notes were recorded in a manuscript that he entitled, “memories of the past”.

A historian once wrote that the rise of liberty and equality in America was accompanied by slavery. There is truth in that statement to great effect. The rise of America in general was accompanied by slavery and the settlers learned early on that slavery would be an effective way to build a country and create free labor. There was a definite accompaniment of slavery with the rising of liberty and equality in America.

Bales and Soodalter researched, and found out “14,500 to 17,500 people are trafficked into the United States from overseas and enslaved each year. They come from Africa, Asia, India, China, Latin America and the former Soviet Unions.”(446). These people are forced into slavery and forced to work in any job in return of a low wage or no wage at all. In the 1800’s, African Americans were only being put out for slavery, but now everyone can be a slave. People no longer care. Also, they used to exchange/sell slaves for about $40,000 and now slaves are being bought for a couple hundred dollars (446). African Americans were forced into slavery before, but now people from other countries are being tricked into slavery in exchange of a couple benjamins. It is difficult for us to say that they should not trust or believe in anyone. Its hard to have lived in poverty your whole life and as soon as they get an offer or a better life they take it right away hoping to make their dreams come true. With these statistics Bales and Soodalter prove to us how much slavery has changed over the years and lets us see for our selves that it doesn’t get better, but yet

It didn't tell the critics name but it did show the dates. I'm guessing around the time the critics wrote these analysis they were adults---maybe mid twentys early thirties. They most likely had to fight slavery during this time. So reading and writing was very hard for them. Around this time in 1884-1885 African Americans were being lynched. I could imagine them having a tough time. They probably just obeyed their masters orders the whole time. Then again I could see them fighting slavery, since slavery was being abolished in other places. I think they were males who did this analysis. They most likely had to work on the field or had house duty. I don't really know too much about the roles that slaves had to play.

“SLAVERY was abolished 150 years ago, right? While it is true that slavery is illegal almost everywhere on earth, the fact is there are more slaves today than there ever were…” Despite the grim reality described in this quote, I believe Robert Alan successfully undermines a common misconception held by Americans, both young and old. Although we are brought up thinking that Abraham Lincoln with his Emancipation Proclamation along with the Civil War Amendments brought an end to the enemy known as slavery, in today’s society, however, that is sadly not the case. The harsh reality is that this problem never truly

Slavery, American capitalism, and modern-day prison labor are inextricably linked to a greater extent than is usually recognized. There are a number of specific reasons why this is true. But, before we dive into this topic it is important to understand the intentional diction in which every sentence is formatted in this paper. It is not meant to contain normative language (the way things should be) rather its purpose is to shine a light on certain ideology (the way things are) in a manner that is easy to understand. This is tricky because while outright spoken racism is becoming harder to find on the surface, it is most assuredly lurking beneath. This particular ideology mutates and evolves to meet the demands of its time proving itself to be essential to upholding any system of oppression. This new implicit form of racism is very alive today but rarely shows its’ face, rather it hides in the shadows only to be seen by a trained eye. Hopefully, after reading this paper you will have an eye for this type of corruption like a hawk.