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    Why Is Slavery Wrong

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    “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong,” a quote from Abraham Lincoln. The South’s main economy was farming and the rich whites didn’t do the farming, their slaves did. A slave is an African-American doing farm or house labor with no pay and very harsh conditions. These slaves were property to the people who owned them. The North did not know all these horrible conditions until later. The true cause of the American Civil War is slavery because the South does not treat the slaves great by, beating

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    Slavery, when you hear this one word, you imagine hundreds and thousands of poor, beaten, defenseless families just thriving for a chance of freedom and survival. Enslavement is the worst kind of discrimination; capturing and mistreating someone just because they’re different. There are even kids being used for back-breaking labor in Asia, The Middle East, and even in the U.S. there has to be a time for change; people need to realize that slavery is a cruel and evil experience. There are some slaves

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    Why Slavery Is Wrong

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    that slavery was kindness for us. If Castle owners not provided us food might be we would died by starving.” Jagan smiled.Pain flashed in carves of his face. “Really we ware happy and obliged to them. My brother was not enough old for fishing in the ocean and no one was there to feed us. So we had admiration to the Castle owners.” Jagan stopped. The silence prevailed for few seconds. Revolution! Protest also needs food and fuel, I thought. May not we agree openly but still we have slavery in our

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    correctly but they messed up on accident and they were beat to death because their owner thought better of them. Slavery was horrible because many slaves were killed trying to escape cruelty, slave trade separated people from their family’s and never got to see them again, and they didn’t have any rights as a human. Slaves had to live with cruel punishments for doing something wrong. When slaves tried to escape some got away but not all the ones who were trying to get away some were caught

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    Lincoln created change because: he abolished Slavery, he had a mixed mindset, and he made Slavery went through a process to get rid of slavery today. Abraham Lincoln created a handful of changes and abolishing slavery is one of them. Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery because, “ In 1854, congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska act. Which repealed the Missouri Compromise, and allowed individual states and territories to decide themselves if they wanted slavery. Another reason is, “He declared that as

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    Reparations for Slavery? Harriet Tubman once said, “Now I 've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.” What is a reparation? A reparation is the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. The biggest question of time is should African Americans receive payments for slavery? Many people would say yes with no hesitation

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    condemn slavery. The South also used religion as their argument, but instead, they used the Bible to argue that slavery was an acceptable part of life. People have questioned whether it was right or wrong of the South to use the bible to support their beliefs in slavery. Some would say that pro-slavery southerners had every right to use the Bible to support their beliefs. When Northerners began to use the Bible against slavery, southerners used this same argument to support it. Slavery was a practice

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    debate of 1858, Douglass clearly sides with slavery. His discourse was a speech meant to unite the country and to prevent future conflicts over the issue of slavery. Douglas meant to persuade the people to accept slavery as a nationalize institution. This may have seemed morally wrong, however, Douglas understood that slavery was essential towards the country’s economic prosperity. In addition, Douglass understood that Lincoln’s speech in opposition of slavery was going to divide the house and bring

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    quotes is “all men are created equal”, he owned slaves and never released them. The topic over slavery and Thomas Jefferson is extremely controversial today in America. In each excerpt, each author clearly addressed the issue of presentism. In Wilson’s excerpt he addressed the issue of presentism by, considering the time eras and the dilemmas that Jefferson had. He wrote that Jefferson knew that slavery was wrong, but freeing them when they had been slaves their whole life was not the correct answer. In

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    Should Americans focus on slavery or focus on equality? There are always two different opinions and two different sides. For years and generations people have argued which is the right thing to do. Treat every citizen equal or bring back slaves? On some level, bringing back slaves should be put back on the table. For a fact, many people take their freedom for granted and take advantage of what they have. Bringing back slavery would make those ungrateful people appreciate what they had. People will

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