The Slave Revolts: Unintended Consequences Of Empire

With reference to chapter 8 and 9 of Zinn’s book: "Slavery without Submission", “Emancipation without freedom” in A People's History of the United States, It was clearly established that that the Civil War was not really fought over the moral issue of slavery, but rather the economic issue of slavery. To reveal these American intentions behind the abolition of slavery, Zinn focuses on the Civil War which usually thought of as the paramount event in U.S. emancipation. After reviewing a few slave revolts and their defeats, he turns to focus on Abraham Lincoln and his ability to "skillfully blend the interests of the very rich and the interests of the black at a moment in history when these interests met.

Ophelia Settle Egypt, informally known as Ophie, was an African American woman ahead of her time. She attained the educational status of less than one percent of the American population, was liberal and accepting of others despite the criticism around her, fought to end racism, worked independently of her husband, and believed in limiting family growth. All of Egypt’s beliefs and lifetime achievements represent a new type of woman: a woman who refuses to assimilate to her gender stereotype of weak, inferior, and domestic. Egypt dedicated her life to social work through various activities. She worked as a sociologist, researcher, teacher, director of organizations, and social worker at different times in her life. Egypt’s book, The Unwritten History of Slavery (1968), and the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Southeast Washington D.C. named after her represent Egypt’s legacy and how one person is capable of social change.

There are authors who write to inform their audience about series of stories or facts from our past and then there are authors who write to argue about the past. In An Empire for Slavery, Randolph B. Campbell wanted to show his audience that slavery did take place in Texas and was popular within the state. Campbell also believed it was one of many factors that lead into the Texas Revolution. He shared that the experiences of slaves in Texas were those almost to the slaves from other southern states. Campbell created thorough investigations with the counties of Texas to discover its servitude society. He believed the Peculiar institution was important for the state but their actions said otherwise. Texas could have been criticized for lack of scope and intentions for the removal of slavery. Campbell was really successful in describing the slaves in Texas from the slaves of the other southern states, although he didn’t mention how they were different. Author sets out to show that the institution affected lifestyles and policies of Texans from the very beginning of settlement. Slavery was cruel in Texas, just like any other parts of the southern states.

Randolph B. Campbell's An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas provides in an in depth look at the slavery existence in the state of Texas. He provides the factors that explain the establishment and growth of slavery. Campbell also explains the economic and legal institution of Texas, and explores the physical and psychological effects of both slaves and their masters prior to the Civil War, during, and after emancipation. Campbell provides clear detail of slavery's impact on Texas slaveholders and society, and how the Civil war affected slavery prior to its destruction.

Slavery was a harsh system that consisted of forcing other human beings to work in harsh conditions; as well as restrict their freedom to the point where they had none. Slavery was first introduced into Colonial America in 1619, and lasted for 245 years. During those 245 years, slavery harshly affected those who were involved in its system. The institution of slavery has profoundly influenced and shaped multiple aspects of Colonial America and the United States. Slavery influenced the 13 Colonies and the U.S. by the growth in sales for Cotton, and farming. Slavery shaped Colonial America and the United States culturally, by proving to the slaves that white people were far more superior than African Americans, religion and Cult of Domesticity. Lastly slavery shaped Colonial America and the United States politically by causing rebellions, and abolitionism.

The changes of slavery shown through American history from the eighteenth and nineteenth-century, dealing with the horrific brutality and inhumane treatment accepted by much of society, all of the way up to present day, as we just recently had America’s first black president Barrack Obama elected in 2008, show drastic improvements on a national crisis that can be heavily credited to the great historical abolitionist of their time and even still the modern day abolitionists continuing to fight. The abolitionist movement was not simply pushed forward by groups of individuals who agreed on the basis that slavery and what was going on at the time was wrong, but instead was heavily impacted by key individuals who typically had experienced first person what it was like on the side of the chained captive workers who were seen as nothing more than mere property they owned. And while for a multitude of those held captive the only life they

If we think of Slavery we think of it as an event in our history that degrading blacks, and only blacks. We, at least I don’t think of it as effecting whites, but if we look at the two authors Baldwin and Coats we see slavery and racism can be viewed on a whole different level. Blocking out stereotypes Coates and Baldwin give us an inside look on what it was actually like like to own or to be a slave. Baldwin, talks about the effects of slavery on a micro level, and talks about how it affects people individually, and how even if someone doesn’t believe in it, they can be taken over by the idea of racism without realizing it; how racism can even affect the white man, saying that you can become the monster that you hate. . Coates, on

For slaves the transition to the New World was at times isolating and difficult. There were rotten, terrifying, and sometimes inhumane experiences that the slaves’ experienced as they transitioned to the New World. Slaves dealt with loneliness when their families were separated because they were sold or because of situations where the owners were controlling their lives.

Slavery has been a key issue in American history since the first settlers settled here in 1607. Historians such as Vincent J Rosivach writes that when the issue of slavery is mentioned the first thing people think about is the slavery model of the deep south, the cotton kingdom. Rosivach writes that there were many different slave models such as the northern American colonies and 4th century Athens. Rosivach and many other historians agree that the way slavery was done in the north was totally different from the south. Slaves have had an important role particularly in the northern American colonies helping them early establish themselves first as a region then as a country. Historians have argued that America was built on the backs of

In a similar way to that of Eunus, he brought together an army of 20,000 and self-proclaimed himself "King of Slaves" with the name of Tryphon(p. 107). He routed a Roman army of 10,000 men and doubled his forces. Then another ex-slave leader, Athenion, joined his forces to those of Salvius and led the western slaves. At this point the Roman Senate sent an army of 17,000 commanded by Lucius Licinius Lucullus. The main difference between the first and second slave war in in the causes…Salvius accepted the advice of Athenion to give battle in the open, and was defeated and killed (p. 107). Athenion, even if wounded, managed to escape and continued the revolt, but was finally defeated and killed by the consul Aquilius. The captive slaves who surrendered decided to commit suicide rather than ending as gladiators in the arena. Shaw says a source on this revolt claims the slaves were joined in their lawlessness by impoverished freeman. Slow action on the part of Rome again permitted the movement to last four years.

Manisha Sinha, a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts is one of those historians who are trying to associate the war against slavery with other liberation movements. Her newest book, The Slave’s Cause, is an encyclopedic survey of the movement against slavery in the United States from its first stirrings before the American Revolution to the peculiar institution’s final demise in the ashes of the American Civil War. Challenging the traditional historical framework, Sinha offers a new appreciation of those who struggled against slavery. It is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive history of the abolitionist movement.

In the book, “Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas” by Randolph Campbell, the reader is given an inside view of the abhorrent practice known as slavery in the state of Texas during the 1800’s. In the book, Campbell examines the legalities and the monetary aspects in the state of Texas during that time, as well as the causes to provide an explanation why and how slavery came to fruition as well as reasoning for the expansion. It provides the reader with an overall look at the effect that slavery had on both those who were abused and degraded by it and also the effect it had on the slave owners before, during and after the Civil War. This included the time period after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The purpose of depicting

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Previous Roman actions have raised the question whether they recognized their slaves as things or people. Of course, there are economic advantages in support of slavery. However, when human lives are under constant danger and torture, the economic advantages must be forgotten. Although the slaves of Ancient Rome played a pivotal role in the society, their actions were never approved. After careful consideration, it is evident that the Romans recognized slaves as things rather than people. This conception is mainly due to three factors. They include: slaves being put on the market, the physical cruelty towards the slaves, and the slaves being mistreated to the point of revolt.

The major reason for the fall of the Western Roman Empire was due to the over-dependence of slavery. Slavery played an important role in Ancient Rome and was heavily relied on to maintain its social, political and economic hold on its Empire that expanded on the Mediterranean area and beyond (“History-The Fall of the Roman Republic,” 2011). Slavery was first introduced as early as the third century BC, with a lot of its history traced back to the legendary Romulus the founder of Rome, giving Roman fathers the right to sell their own children into slavery (“Slaves & Freeman,” 2006). As time passed and Rome became a force to be reckoned with, the practice of slavery kept growing with the expansion of the Roman state through victories of the war. The ownership of slaves became omnipresent throughout Rome from the Second Punic War (218–201 BCE) to the 4th century CE, and according to records, an enormous slave trade resulted from the collapse of the Seleucid Empire (100–63 BCE) (Burks, 2008). With several military victories, conquests, and expansions, slavery grew at an incredible rate throughout the state. With conquest came money and with money came more slaves. According to records, in 225 B.C., there were an estimated 600,000 slaves in Roman Italy, but only 194 years later that number grew to approximately two million (Burks, 2008).