The institution of slavery is a stain on the otherwise beautiful and brilliant history of fledgling America. What started as an underdog story, a glorious revolution for freedom, is forever marked by the oppression of people of color for hundreds of years in the young United States. The forefathers who started this revolution, the men who built this government will forever have tarnished their place in history by not extending freedom and liberty to all, no matter their complexion. On the other hand, the men who fought for the liberty of the oppressed, those were the good guys, those are the men whose legacy of doing the right thing, the courageous thing, will live on forever. Those men argued for the very lives of slaves, using the humanity of slaves, the law of the United States, and the own religion and morality of the oppressors.
One of the central themes of the abolitionist movement is simple: the humanity of the slaves. These were very obviously human beings in every aspect of biology, yet they were treated as animals, sometimes even less than the livestock. In Walker's letter, he states the slaves in the United States were the most "degraded, wretched, and abject" …show more content…
Slavers used the Bible to justify their oppression of people of color, but David Walker asks where in the Bible were slaves treated as animals, that even the Egyptians did not treat their slaves as badly as Americans did. He calls into question the morals of these so-called Christians, as Christianity was a religion of love and peace. There was no love and peace in the institution of slavery, only hate and brutality. Fredrick Douglas summed it simply with the phrase that slavery was "the great sin and shame of America," as he denounced slavery and its brutality and
One of the central themes of the abolitionist movement is simple: the humanity of the slaves. These were very obviously human beings in every aspect of biology, yet they were treated as animals, sometimes even less than the livestock. In Walker's letter, he states the slaves in the United States were the most "degraded, wretched, and abject" …show more content…
Slavers used the Bible to justify their oppression of people of color, but David Walker asks where in the Bible were slaves treated as animals, that even the Egyptians did not treat their slaves as badly as Americans did. He calls into question the morals of these so-called Christians, as Christianity was a religion of love and peace. There was no love and peace in the institution of slavery, only hate and brutality. Fredrick Douglas summed it simply with the phrase that slavery was "the great sin and shame of America," as he denounced slavery and its brutality and