Slavery By Another Name Thesis

In 1865 Congress passed the thirteenth Amendment stating” Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall

During the span of thirty years from 1865 to 1895 blacks that lived within this time frame went through arguably the most profound series of events to occur in African American history. Southern blacks were faced with prejudice, bondage, slavery, and ultimately survival. Shortly after the thirteenth amendment was ratified, stating that: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

It also allowed black men to join the Union Army and Navy, “enabling the liberated to become liberators.” (The Emancipation Proclamation) The big change in slavery and the fight for equality did not come until the Thirteenth Amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865 and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865. With this event, it was declared that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” (13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution) Although this Amendment did give slaves their freedom, it did not guarantee them the same rights nor the same treatment that other citizens of the United States had and took for granted. This was especially seen in the states that “enacted ‘black codes’ that were intended to limit the civil rights of the newly free slaves.” (Civil Rights) These “black codes” and the obvious difference in treatment were a large issue, and they were later addressed in the Constitution with the introduction of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified on July 9, 1868 and it made large changes for black individuals. This Amendment “granted citizenship to ‘all persons born or naturalized in the United States,’ which included former slaves recently freed.” (14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution) It also “forbids states from denying

The Constitution states that, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery for everyone except prisoners. Even now, prisoners can work for little to no pay as a punishment for crime. Commentators in the documentary talked about the thirteenth amendment and proved how even after the amendment was passed, African Americans were still enslaved.

Everybody has something they feel that makes their lives easier, something a person becomes so accustomed to they could not live without it. This is what African slaves were to the Southern colonists. Slavery was a huge factor in the Southerner’s lives. Originally the colonists used indentured servants to work in their homes and on their plantations. This situation was not ideal because the Southern farmers wanted more control over their workers (orange). Virginian farmers heard about the success of slavery in the Caribbean and thought it would be a good solution to their problems (blue). The southern colonists had a very different way of earning a living than in the north. They needed people to work through “the harsh realities of a

I can't believe that Southerner's had gotten slaves to get cotton. Slavery had a big impact of the cotton rise because they were treated miserable and they always had to go work and they would sometimes lie about being sick or had something to do because they were tired. Slave's had a miserable life with the time of the cotton gins. They had been whipping if they haven't done the right thing. Children would be separated from their families. They don't have much what they get from their work. They never got new cloths only once a year. And they would work hard every single day and get noting for it. And have to live in pain.

The slavery was always a great part of early American economy but with the development of capitalism the view on slavery had been changed. Between The Revolution and Civil War, during the period known as "market revolution", American economy has been swiftly transforming, and the changes broke up the country into North and South. This division was determined by the different approaches to the economic growth and labor organization. Northern economy has been converted into new commercial economy with new wages-paid labor organization. Southern economy remained depended on slavery.

liberties. These were hug step backs in the fight to end racism and inequalities but even many years later black people still experience the effects of inequality, racism and being racially profiled.

Once Southerners believed they were losing control and possible ability to spread slavery in the United States, they broke away from the Union. In 1861 elite slaveholders did not think their interests could be met, causing them to launch the confederacy. They did not care about only controlling the African Americans; at this point they were out for power, for blood. They lost their grip on the federal government after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, which caused the power of national state no longer able to be used as a defense to strengthen slavery, but now a weapon to undermine it. They advocated the central importance of slavery and tried to make it seem as if the slavery was the reason for the southern states succession, while

In 1830 slavery was originally sited in the South, where it lives in various structures. African Americans were imprisoned on diminutive farms, big plantations, in cities and towns, within homes, outside the fields, and in industry and transportation. Even if slavery had such a great series of faces, the fundamental concepts were always similar. Slaves were considered possessions, and they were possessions for the reason that they were black. Their rank as property was inflicted by aggression actual or threatened. People, black and white, lived jointly within these limits, and their lives as one took a lot of forms (Solomon, 1855).

a) There was a huge social gap between poor people and rich people in the

After the civil war, many people were affected because new laws and restrictions came into play. The South was unable to come into the union unless they did certain things that would regain their trust as a country. Although new laws and restrictions were made, slaves were freed. Slaves being freed sounded great to them because they were no longer controlled by cruel owners, but they were in the same sense treated the same. They were treated like they were not people, they still weren’t allowed to do the same things as “whites,” and had many unrealistic rules that they had to follow. Considering slavery was a huge argument in the society during this time, I think that freeing slaves had a huge impact in the community of the slaves.

During the 1800s, black slavery was an essential part of the American economy. Abolitionism, a movement existing concurrently with the institution of slavery, arose aiming to eradicate the practice of slavery and to provide equal rights for black Americans. Determined abolitionists turned to literature, activism, and progressive action to work toward their goal. Extreme abolitionists even went was far as participating illegally in a network of northbound trails located in the south which came to be known as the Underground Railroad. Founded in the early 1800s, the Underground Railroad consisted of abolitionist “conductors” and other activists working to liberate individual slaves. Conductors and hosts of safe houses such as Harriet Tubman and William Still, moved slaves from the slavery ridden South to the free soil of the North. Federal and state attempts to maintain slavery proved to be setbacks for the participants in Underground Railroad, however, despite these setbacks, the Underground Railroad had substantial success in liberating many individuals. Outspoken and active abolitionism among determined individuals, both white and black, and religious groups in the nineteenth century contributed to the success of the Underground Railroad in helping black individuals at the same time as both governmental and societal attempts to continue the institution of slavery.

Slavery has stood the test of time; slaves were used in Mesopotamia even before they were conquered by the First Persian Empire in 539 BCE. In the Roman Empire slaves were about 10% of the total population of the Empire. The need for labor in the New World caused about 10.7 million Africans to be shipped over to become slaves. The mass usage of slaves from the 2nd millennia BCE to today where millions of slaves are still being used in countries all over the globe is an economic business. Until slavery started in the New World it was not associated with racism. In the Roman Empire slaves were multinational, as is the case with all other instances of slavery including in Greece and in Africa itself, except for in the New World. Therefore contrary to popular belief, throughout history slavery was an economic affair not a racist one.

On the 10th of December 1948 just after the Second World War, the Universal Declaration of human rights was drafted. The League of Nations was founded by the allied powers with the main “reason” being to ensure peace on earth after the horrific 6 years of the devastating destruction The League of Nations was then later renamed to what is more commonly known today as The United Nations. The declaration of human rights was drafted in order for all member states to obey the declaration and all its articles. The declaration contains many articles which serve to “protect the rights” of every human being and individuals living on the face of the earth. Article number four stands out for its universal message that vows to protect the freedom