Slavery By Nazer Analysis

Many people dream of being able to live the American Dream and sadly, many people fall in the wrong hands and get cheated on a fake American dream. Although, America is always advertised as “The Land of the Free” slavery is still going on and no one seems to be aware of it or concerned about it. Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter talk about slavery in The United States, in their article, Slavery In The Land of the Free. In this article, Bales and Soodalter talk about how slavery is still happening in the country, but in many different ways. Bales and Soodalter use stories, statics, and comparisons of every slavery case there is in America. However, most of the stories they told were about Hispanics being in slaved, and did not really include stories of other races

There are more slaves in this world today than at any point in human history, with an estimate of 21 million in bondage across the globe. Every 30 seconds a person becomes a victim of contemporary slavery, which is a multi-billion dollar industry with estimates of up to $35 billion generated annually. This vile crime robs millions of people of their basic freedom and dignity. Victims of modern-day slavery include U.S. citizens and foreign nationals, adults, and children, who are trapped in forced labor, with little or no hope.

“After the Civil War black southerners were no longer slaves, but they were not yet free (Slavery by Another Name).” Many southern blacks rushed to celebrate their new found freedom through marriage and coming together as families. However the joys of emancipation did last, for many white southerners were turned bitter to the core for the destruction of their economy. And many felt the newly released slaves to be competitors in obtaining land and wealth. The documentary “Slavery By Another Name” tells the narrative of a just a few African American men who lived through the era between emancipation and the signing of Circular 3591 by Franklin D. Roosevelt which gave authorities across the country the power to finally crackdown on involuntary servitude on December 12, 1942. It also reflects on one of the darkest times in american history and shows how the expansion of America was paved by the suffering of an entire race.

The PBS Documentary Slavery by Another Name goes into detail describing one of America’s most disgraceful periods of time. In the video you can see photos and testimonies of people who once lived through the hardship of being an African American at that point in history. Families member tell the stories of their relatives. By doing so maybe it will impact the future generations.

Footnote: Jesse Sage and Liora Kasten, eds, Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006), 68.

You may feed and shelter them, but what about the beating that you give them and the forcing to overwork them. I know for a fact that if you let out your slaves, they will run and none will stay for your shelter and food, however you take away their rights to do anything and set harsh punishments to prevent them from doing anything except working. I ask you again, how would you act if you were imprisoned and deprived of freedom and barely kept alive with food and a rugged shelter that is hardly fit for living in? It must be horrible, yet you still continue to enslave and beat people without much of a second

Places like Sudan and Niger still have prevalent slave trade. Children are often abducted to be sold as slaves, and recently a ship was believed to be carrying slave children and turned away when officials were seen near the coast. This happened in Africa, but many places still have problems with slave trade. At this moment, there are about 60,000 men, women and children enslaved in America. No, not Sudan or Pakistan, The United States of America. Most of these due to human trafficking. One way to solve this problem is to just educate people. Let them know how prevalent slavery still is today, so that we can have a better tomorrow without the very large problem of

Anyone who has ever taken a history class in their life has talked about the touchy subject of slavery. There are many different viewpoints on how slave life was or on the other view point of historians trying to explain slave in its entirety. So I have recently read an article about slavery and have a couple different responses to this article. Like I stated that slavery is a touchy subject but is a subject I believe needs to be talked about in order to not do anything this inhumane ever again. Many people have different ideas about what slavery even is. There are some people that think a version of slavery is still going on today with the black community on the equal rights and wages. That is a great thing about this horrible event(s) in history is that slavery have several viewpoints and different definitions. After reading this I hope you have your own viewpoint and/ or definition of slavery. In this one the explanation of Ira Berlins viewpoint.

Slavery is one of the most controversial points in American history and in these documents, we are able to see the different viewpoints from three different men. The first viewpoint we get to see from is John C. Calhoun, the Secretary of State at the time. In his writing, it is obvious to see that he is in favor of slavery based on his thought of how it was a key factor is the prosperity of the states. He mentions, due to this belief, that it is in the best interest of the state and the state alone to regulate whether they have slavery or not. During this time period, it is quite apparent that the whites held themselves in a much higher regard over the black population. They thought they were uncivilized, idiotic, and brutish people. It was obvious that they felt there was never going to be equality between them. This belief of his just reinforced that thought that many people in America thought they were the superior race.

To begin with, this paper will be about the legal, societal, and political events were highlighted in the video, “Slavery by Another Name” and how they explain how the institution of slavery for freed blacks continued after their emancipation. Of course, to begin, the abolishment of slavery, they verdicts and aftermath of court cases involving peonage, and forced labor, and also the political advancements that the presidents who were in office during this time after slavery had made within the African American communities and in the country as a whole.

Ever since the beginning of time, black people have always been looked upon as the inferior race compared to the ever powerful white male. Since all these acquisitions have been made about these people, the whites have taken it under their power that they can own these human beings and control them to in any way they please because they believe it is their constitutional right to property. However, the white male has taken it to an extreme saying that another human being is their property to control. When the Founding Fathers were drafting the US Constitution, they knew the debate over slavery was a critical flaw in their newly founded nation, but chose not to abolish nor allow of this sinful act knowing that it would not be approved by the southern states. When Frederick Douglass and Jefferson Davis wrote their documents about slavery they both proved their by by saying the constitution either said it was okay or it was implied that it was constitutionally approved.

The issue of slavery has been debated for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. It is of undisputed awareness that the act of enslaving another man or women is to strip them of their civil and natural liberties. It is also of uncontested certainty that no man or women would will- ingly chose to be a slave. And although slavery and it’s accompanied hardships are often seen as no less than an ultimate evil, it is also an indisputable fact that humanity has enslaved its brethren since the dawn of mankind1. As rational beings, we must put aside our presumptions, precon- ceived notions, and emotionally biased opinions of slavery and ask ourselves; why? One would think that if enslavement was such an unspeakable evil, it would have no place in our civil soci- ety. Yet, slavery time and time again has appeared as a fundamental part of many of the worlds most powerfull civilizations and societies throughout history. This is because slavery is a power- full tool and a necessary evil. The Greeks, Romans, Mongols, Ottomans, Egyptians, Ghana’s, Mali’s, Songhai’s, and Kanem-Bornu’s (the former four being powerfull African empires) all

During this time the most of the North states had abolished slavery and were looking to expand west, but they didn’t want the Ideology of slavery expanding west. Although, the south’s view of slavery was different and they were also pursuing western expansion, the Missouri Compromise of 1820, became the first debate over allowing the spread of slavery into new land to the west. This compromise helped to maintain an equal balance until Texas was annexed in 1845 as a slave state. All this would lead to war with Mexico, and then the American Civil War The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, was the end of the Mexican American war, but the United States also took half a million square acres. This would create tension between the North and the South regarding

Along with the working conditions, they were barley fed, taken from their kids, beat, and they were sold to people. When a slave did not do their work “correctly” or fast enough there masters would beat them. When a woman is pregnant, they build a hole big enough for the women’s belly to lay in while she gets beat. From 1526 to 1867, 12.5 million slaves were shipped from Africa to America with only about 10.7 million surviving the journey.

There were been debates whether the North and South among slavery. It was a problem concerning more territories won from Mexico should allow or terminate slavery. The Democratic Party defended the rights of every person, although southern Democrats believed that new territories should allow slavery. There seem to no help to giving people their equal rights. “Northerners argues that if slavery were allowed in Texas and other parts of the West, wealthy plantation owners would buy up all the new land, leaving little left for less affluent farmers.” (Schultz, p. 236, 2009) Northern Democrats supported slavery, and believed that Texas and Kansas and Missouri would be populated with African Americans. Many Northern Democrats turned against slavery