Virginian luxuries depict the common tendency of most Americans, which also includes our Founding Fathers in the grounds of enjoying their liberty that undertakes physical violence, sexual harassment and slavery practiced by the common people and slave owners. The brutality, slave practice, violence, sexual harassment etc. conducted by the white people based on their race and power over the African American men and women are featured in “Virginian Luxuries”.
The three races described by Alexis de Toqueville are the White or European, the Negro and the Indian. Toqueville describes the whites as the superior people all in terms of their intelligence, power and enjoyment. Similarly, following races are the Negro and the Indians who do not …show more content…
The document explains how men and women are created equal by god with equal rights to their respective life, their liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It has shown how a male dominated society has been in existence throughout our civilization, where men tend to push women through absolute tranny. The document also highlights the common practice of male during the nineteenth century, where a woman is deprived of her basic rights; men monopolize the employment, keeping women from education and under the glass ceiling, etc. Gender relationship during the nineteenth century was very unequal and unjust for women and the male always dominated women in all aspects morally, physically, mentally, economically …show more content…
The 13th amendment insisted on putting a stop to the practice of slavery unless it was undertaken as a punishment whereby the party is duly convicted. Similarly, the 14th amendment brings several points into consideration stating that all persons born on naturalized in the United States are citizen of the United States and they have the equal rights to their liberty, life and property, and also they are subject to the jurisdiction of the state where they reside. The 15th amendment stated that the rights of the citizen of the United States to vote shall not be denied based on their color, race or their past state of servitude. Desperate measures were taken to hold the dissolving union together favoring the southern states and protecting their rights to own slaves or by disfranchising the African Americans, and nobody was able to win the votes required by the congress either. The Civil War broke in an attempt to resolve the issues of liberty and unequal power relationships with several motives of ending slavery, establishing social and economical equality between all races, allowing the former slaves the right to vote etc. Although all of these important issues were drawn and brought into light by the 13th, 14th & 15th amendments,