Slavery Affecting America Today

Slavery is one of the most horrific events that occurred in American history. People were divided and treated poorly because of the color of their skin. Slavery affected many people, and the most important factors are how slavery affects America today, which states allowed slavery, and conflicts with slavery when it was occurring.
Slavery still affects many people in America today. Most people in America do not know how and why slavery occurred in the first place. According to James Illingworth “Those who want to make a difference in the world, need to understand slavery to understand America’s society today” (Illingworth). Slavery caused one of the worst battles in America’s history-The Civil War. Many people do not understand that slavery caused this war and they think that it is more based around “states’ rights” (Illingworth).
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Not many people know who to blame for the origins of slave keeping. Slavery happened because whites felt as if African Americans were “inferior beings to whites” (“End Slavery Now”). The European, white, immigrants felt as if they were better than another group of people. The whites cemented this horrifying idea into the heads of African Americans who now lived in fear for their lives. Clearly, slavery still affects America today, and there are many states that allowed this awful inhumanity.
There are many southern states in America that allowed slavery. The origin of slavery was in Jamestown, Virginia. Slavery spread to southern states after being seen as effective in Viginia. The Kansas-Nebraska bill allowed for the expansion of slavery into some Western territories (“The African American Mosaic”). Slavery was a widespread practice in the 1800’s and was very popular with farmers in the south. Most northern states did not allow slavery because they saw it as a very wrong action to force people to work against their