It's exceedingly evident that the everlasting " slavery blame game" still prevails in the United States even following the abolishment of slavery in 1865. Countless individuals have dedicated numerous hours researching and contemplating this tendentious debate. It is incontrovertible that colonial leaders and slave owners confiscated all rights previously possessed by slaves, and preformed inhuman actions towards them. In direct correlation to this, it is irrefutable that impotent Colonial leaders and despotic slave owners are responsible for the large scale transgression of slavery in the United States. Slave owners and colonial leaders are held accountable by virtue of the perspicuous maltreatment they displayed towards slaves, their unwillingness
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In the formation of a stable United Sates, slavery's primary purpose was to aid the production of remunerative cash crops such as tobacco, and moreover, to supply affluence to slave owners: "African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation"(" Slavery in America"). Thus, plantation owners in the South readily welcomed nonconformist individuals such as slaves to perform the tedious labor on the plantation. Many individuals, such as Colonial leaders who were involved in the slave trade, and corrupt slave owners who unwieldily mistreated and abused the privilege of owning slaves, have been accused for causing slavery in the United States. Further, even slaves, who previously practiced slavery in Africa, are defined as possible perpetrators. Despite this, it is noted "many colonists (particularly in the North, where slavery was relatively unimportant to the economy) began to link the oppression of black slaves to their own oppression by the British"(" Slavery in America"). In formulating an understanding of the great tyranny of slavery, a distinguishing concept that arises is how remarkably egregious slave owners were to slaves and how these actions were partly influenced by their own experience of oppression by the British. Keeping all of this in mind, although it is clear slavery was not intended to be as calamitous as it truly was, the implication of slavery in America resulted in the cataclysmic maltreatment of an entire race, and provides still to be a painstaking and controversial
In the formation of a stable United Sates, slavery's primary purpose was to aid the production of remunerative cash crops such as tobacco, and moreover, to supply affluence to slave owners: "African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation"(" Slavery in America"). Thus, plantation owners in the South readily welcomed nonconformist individuals such as slaves to perform the tedious labor on the plantation. Many individuals, such as Colonial leaders who were involved in the slave trade, and corrupt slave owners who unwieldily mistreated and abused the privilege of owning slaves, have been accused for causing slavery in the United States. Further, even slaves, who previously practiced slavery in Africa, are defined as possible perpetrators. Despite this, it is noted "many colonists (particularly in the North, where slavery was relatively unimportant to the economy) began to link the oppression of black slaves to their own oppression by the British"(" Slavery in America"). In formulating an understanding of the great tyranny of slavery, a distinguishing concept that arises is how remarkably egregious slave owners were to slaves and how these actions were partly influenced by their own experience of oppression by the British. Keeping all of this in mind, although it is clear slavery was not intended to be as calamitous as it truly was, the implication of slavery in America resulted in the cataclysmic maltreatment of an entire race, and provides still to be a painstaking and controversial