Why Was Slavery Wrong

Whites have always considered themselves superior to blacks, no matter if they were slave owners or not. Blacks were considered lower than humans, making them a main target of oppression of whites. So even when a small group of blacks were given their freedom, they weren’t truly liberated from the chains of slavery and oppression. Blacks were freed in the early 1800s, giving a limited amount of blacks the freedom they deserved. These blacks were usually rural, uneducated, and unskilled domestic servants who had to work hard to survive in the society that shunned them. Free blacks were still given restrictions and laws because of their status in society. In the early 1830s, a law in Virginia was made to prohibit all blacks from getting their education. They even took it to the level where free blacks who went out of state to educate themselves were not able to come back and return to their own state. The worst restriction was that blacks could not testify in court. When a slave owner claimed that a free black was their slave, they could not defend themselves, and would have to conform back to their slavery. Despite the terrible treatment given to blacks, some rose above the oppression and became successful, therefore achieving their goals and potentials of being a free black man, leaving a huge impact on society in the 1800s.

It all started when the American declaration of independence stated “All men are created equal”, but during the 19th century the only humans with equal opportunities were born whites. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s was one of the most important days to fight the equality of all people. Africans were the the only humans that were not treated the same, but were treated as slaves to work on the fields of the whites. On 1863 ended slavery, until 1865 all colored people were treated as animals and unequal, because there were still a serious disagreement between the races of the people who live in the United States.

This disheartening matter made it possible for a man whose complexion was not white to become property of a white man. This is because a white man was viewed as superior to other men of different races and thus able to own a man of color. The new perspective of the Declaration of Independence inspired action to be taken on this matter of slavery. This is evident in The Liberator: “To the Public” 1831 when it is stated, “ ‘…that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights…’ I

Even after free labor came into play many of African Americans stayed with their owners and continued to work as slaves mostly because of fear of being killed. Even though they had to work long hours and not receive the pay they deserved they at least knew they were safe from other whites who were against slaves being set free. As time passes more laws begin to be passed each granting former slaves and all African Americans more rights, and pretty soon they had equal rights like everyone else. I believe this probably only angered the whites more because not only were they free but now had equal rights, but as more time passed more and more whites who once were

In the end, Calhoun supported the institution of slavery for many reasons, but at the bottom of all his argument was this: he believed the African race was inferior. He shared the prevailing prejudices of the day -- held in both the North and South -- which black people were mentally, physically, and morally inferior to whites. This inferiority necessitated that they be slaves. He pointed to the impoverished living conditions of Northern free blacks as proof that black people lacked the ability to exercise their freedom positively.

Read Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on that topic, as well as the treatises of any number of other academicians of the era. From pulpits in the north and south alike (as well as in Europe) those enlightened men of the cloth made it clear that the African race was put on earth by God to serve as the beast of burden of the white race and Man had no right to question, let alone interfere with, God's will.

But the white men are the only ones that this applied to because the slaves were not treated equally because they had to work for free and they were bought like a piece of property, and they were separated from their parents and family and taken off to work somewhere else.

Slavery doesn’t give everyone an equal right. No human being should be treated like an animal. Blacks were not created to be handled and abused by the whites. Slavery does not give black people the chance to be themselves they had to do what someone told them to do. Families were separated because some of them had

Even though African American's always have been slaves it just made the Europeans want them more they knew it would be easy to get slaves to work with them because of the trades that been around even before slavery. European's treated everyone that was different like aliens they did not care that you thought of god this way you had to be like them you had to live there lifestyle. African American wanted a life they did not want to become slaves but in the old ages they could have families and a home when they were slaves but once the Europeans came they treated them like they were animals just like the treated the Natives. In the textbook they said "Yet they were entitled to certain rights including education, marriage, and parenthood"(16).

They claimed that they needed slaves for their economy and that may be true, but slavery was never ok. It’s just simple ethics and principles, why would it be fine to treat someone like an animal and have them do hard labor for your plantation for free? It was just wrong and on top of that they would bring them from Africa

A majority of people would agree that slavery is unjust and there is no reasonable explanation for slavery to be justified. In John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration, he states that there is a situation when slavery would be justifiable. Slavery, according to Locke, is justified when a man has forfeited his life by having committed an act that deserves death to the person being wronged. To Locke, slavery is nothing more than a state of war between a conqueror with absolute power and the conquered. Once a contract has been formed where the conquered promises obedience, it is then that the state of war and slavery are over. If a person has committed a crime that is punishable by death, the person who was wronged can choose to delay the death and instead have them work for them. If the person finds hardship in living in slavery and finds that it outweighs his life, then he can opt for his death. Locke states that there are two types of slavery, legitimate and illegitimate slavery. Legitimate slavery is when there is a justifiable reason for using slavery as punishment instead of death. Illegitimate slavery is when an absolute and despotic ruler exercises complete control over a person without having any just cause. The difference between the two forms of slavery is that legitimate slavery has what is considered to be a just cause and illegitimate slavery does not have a just cause. Slavery can never occur without there being a contract in

Slavery should not have even started in America, because when America was made, some important documents were made that set up our government, and everything that the nation felt was wrong, namely the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Slavery, however, goes against what these documents say. For example,

Although they chose the African Negro race, race isn’t the cause for it. It’s all about money, power, and the ability to work. African Negros had very little knowledge about anything around this time, and the master saw this as an opportunity to profit off of them. Some people actually thought that no other race could get the job done like African Negros can. People such as the Governor George McDuffie of South Carolina believed that ‘African can change his skin,’ it will be useless to try by any human power, to make free those whom God has doomed to be slaves…’ Slaves were treated in a very horrific way, it seems as if they got beaten more than they deserved. The scars that were left after each whipping are scars that will never heal and that’s something that they just had to deal with. Why? They were property to others, so whatever the master says, goes. Simple. Do your job, or get

Throughout history, blacks have been treated the poorest out of all races. Although everyone under God is to be treated equal, whites thought of themselves as being the superior race. In 1619 a Dutch ship brought 20 slaves to America and it took nearly 240 years for slavery to end in 1865(Ronald, , para. 3).These helpless slaves were taken to America and put to work growing anything from cotton to tobacco. Slaves had absolutely no rights. They were simply property of their “Massa’.” Being disrespectful to a white man could get a Negro killed and they just accepted the facts of the matter. The south was the most notorious in its treatment of slaves and slaves would run away. It was a big risk, but a slave that made it to a

The American declaration of independence stated, that: “All men are created equal”. But in the 19th century only whites were born with equal opportunities. Africans were imported as slaves and had to work on the fields of the whites. Until 1865 the Negroes were treated and looked at as something lower than human. They were compared to apes, and therefore just owned the same rights as animals. They were raised believing that whites were superior. It took them years to realize that they have to stand up for their rights. The uprising turned into a brutal civil war.