Ratification Of Slavery

The book report is on "Slavery's Constitution From Revolution to Ratification"1 by David Waldstreicher. This book is primarily a history book that speaks about the creation, ratification, and the implementation of the United States Constitution with regards to slavery. The author is trying to convey to the reader that the Constitution, while never actually mentioning slavery, had slavery written all over it. The author chose this topic to talk about because it's very clear by reading Constitution once that there isn't much discussion about slavery. What Waldstreicher would argue is that this conception is wrong, and the only way to understand that it is incorrect is to go back into the early stages of colonial history and work your way up to

What is slavery? Slavery is forced labor and this forced labor is what built America and made them become more developed. “Africans peoples were captured and transported to the Americas to work. Most European colonial economies in the Americas from the 16th century through the 19th were dependant on enslaved African labor for their survival.” Many claim that enslavement was very necessary in order for America to thrive and not die off for it is now one of the best countries in the world. However, slavery was not necessary in the Americas it was just a mechanism that just stripped Africans of their human rights, giving the slave masters the “right” to abuse them. Slavery was not necessary in the Americas because without slavery America would

Slaves had never been treated as humans they were always beaten for ridiculous things. The first hand account of John Andrew Jackson an ex-slave shows how bad slaves really had it in his book The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina:

Slavery (the ownership of another human as one’s own property) is one of the oldest traditions in human history. History shows that ancient Rome and Greece valued their wealth upon the number of slaves an individual owned. Their service was to provide slave labor for their owners. As time progressed, slavery began to evolve into something much different– especially in the North American colonies. A new nation was emerging, fueled by a drive for expansion and a growing economy. The United States exploited African Americans through racial slavery to fill the labor shortage and created a system that stripped them of their basic rights, dignity, and created social barriers to ensure their subservience to Southern society.

Slavery has existed since the beginning of time. Slavery was a system put in place that allowed people to be treated property. In most cases, slaves could be bought and sold. People would acquire slaves through capture, purchase, or birth. All slaves were denied the right to leave, refuse work, or any type of payment for their labor. Slavery was a horrible institution, whose purpose was to serve as an economic system and display status throughout Western history.

Enslaved people were treated extremely harshly by Southern slave owners. Slaves were instructed to do heavy labor, and if they did not worth to their maximum ability they were cruelly treated with whippings, beatings, and they were sometimes even maimed. Slaves barely had enough food, clothing, and shelter to get through

Slavery is a system where people are not treated as people, they are treated as property. Properties have no right to do anything and only follow what their masters want. They are used for the benefits of their masters and gain nothing in return. This describes exactly how slaves are treated. The unethical and cruel treatment of people through the slavery system caused various slave rebellions and ultimately lit the spark leading up to the beginning of the Civil War.

Long before America was founded and established, slavery was already a popular practice. All around the world, even before 1776, the world used slavery in their daily lives. Since America was founded off of slavery, the ‘larger society’ believed that we should not stop this practice. This idea of sticking to the roots of America played a big role because many people did not want to change how things were. This justified the practice of slavery because since America started off with slavery, they might as well should keep with

Imagine your life as if you were treated worst than a dog or a stray animal and treated as someone’s property. Slavery was the practice or system of owning people. Not only that slavery is “social and economic movement relationship in which a person is controlled through either violence or its threat, paid nothing and economically exploited”, stated The American Journal of International Law. It was a part of life that existed for a very long time. Slavery began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. Slaves were bought and sold, and used as laborers under orders of whoever owned them. Slaves were treated as prisoners in their own skin because they couldn’t do nothing for themselves but listen to people’s commands. Slaves were forced to listen to their owner without any say so. When talking about this touchy topic slavery was about having no choices at all to what happened, slaves had no control of their lives, and slaves constantly had a fear of violence.

Slavery, from the idea behind it to the way it was enforced, was a cruel institution that allowed the degradation of black existence to that of a mere object beneath a master’s control.

Slavery is a cruel act against people. To be taken away from the people you love and care deeply for and be put into “a prison”. The British soilders would capture african americans and sell them as if they were items not human beings. Beginning with the Mayflower compact, to the Virginia House of Burgesses, followed by the Declaration of Rights, continuing with the Declaration of independence, trailed by the Articles of Confederation, culminating with the Constitution of the United States. All above happened to avoid slavery spreading through America.

Slavery is a principle that was made by upper-class white people for owning an African as a property. Meaning, people that were black, where ought to be owned by a white person. They were sold, bought, and owned until the agreement the owner made to expire or they were no longer useful to their owners. Slaves were not entitled to their humanity. They were considered a commodity that was kept if there was the use of them. Women were raped, men lost their wives and children, and they were also treated like animals. This brutal stage is believed to start in America in 1619 when the first African came to help in the production of crops, such as tobacco and in England, it started in 1662 when the first English slave trader - John Hawkins captured

Slavery was the practice of owning a slave or slaves. Slaves are human beings forced into laboring and other acts for free. The imprisoned had no choice in what happened to them, or who controlled them. They were sold like property. Some of those unfortunate people were born into slavery. They got their freedom ripped from them even before they were brought into the world. Slaves were often treated poorly and like property. They were owned by a master that they served under. The whites were in charge of owning the blacks. The African Americans were treated unequal and had to live in poor conditions, given less food, and worked harder than any white just because of the fact that they are a slave. They were only slaves due to the fact there skin is darker. Good examples of these happenings are in the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This book shows the readers the slave's side of how they are treated.

Now when the word slavery comes to mind in our current modernized society, majority of people think of it as something that has long gone and past, a long and tragic historical event that has happened decades and decades ago. A time where human beings were exploited and had no freedom of movement and far from the modernized world we currently live in. But unfortunately slavery still exists to this very day and believe it or not, even in a more prominent scale. Although slavery has been prohibited, the practice of slavery still exists albeit in different

Slavery can take many forms and shapes. The most common example was slavery in the United States. However, slavery can also be described in a more personal sense. A person can be a slave to his or her own emotions, passions, and certainly choices. Slavery has many different forms but all forms have costs. Some are greater than others. One cost of slavery is a loss of freedom. Loss of freedom happens not only to those physically enslaved, but, also to those that enslave themselves. Slavery can be found throughout all of history, but all forms stem from the same foundation. The foundation for the cause of slavery is self-interest and a lack of true freedom.