Slavery: A Lie Of Life

When did slavery begin? It did not start with African natives being shipped around the every corner of the world. No, slavery goes back thousands of years. One of the earliest known written records, code of Hammurabi and Ur-Nammu states punishments going as far as give up the firstborn child of a freed slave to the slave’s previous owner. Slavery is a lie that started as a law, and set in stone. Even the bible’s stance on slavery made it only that much easier for it to be accepted worldwide. “A lie cannot live”, however it can be accepted, there are many cases where a lie has lived and caused so many hardships because people refuse to accept them as lies and move foward. “A lie cannot live” but it can grow into a multi-million dollar company. More so, a billion dollar Ponzi-scheme, as …show more content…
Social stratification was one of the driving forces as to why slavery continued as long as it did. Because the ownership of life is the worth more than money in means of free labor and slaves could reproduce more slaves it helped the white slaveholding south become abysmal in the amount of wealth and power it created. Slavery was such a stronghold in the economy of the south which made it so hard to let go, and nevertheless ever harder to accept. There was a war fought over the south’s inability to let go of a lie. King saw that this lie of ownership of life while illegal now, still the lies that one race was superior to another still continues till this day. Depending on the morals taught as children, will affect what we choose to accept as the truth and what is morally wrong. The ethics behind this is that so many factors contribute to one’s morals, geographic area, race, culture, and close relationships that it is hard for people to share the same morals. Morals are important but the morals we are taught may be lies themselves. Even an honest man has his price, his morals