White slavery

makes the people extraordinary uncomfortable”. Professor Sherman Jackson was saying to all non-Caucasian western people, who is trying hard to be western Caucasian instead of embracing his own skin color as it is: “you may be legally white, but you are not socially white”. Definitely, the statement of Mellody Hobson and professor Sherman Jackson means that racism was deeply settled in the psyche of the people in spite of all human efforts trying to get rid of…

Slavery, loneliness, pain, sexually abused are the fate of trafficked people. It’s in the hands of the nation to help prevent these horrific events. The growing amount of 700,000 people is trafficked every year for the purposes of sexual activities and labor. They are adopted and sold into modern-day slavery across the globe. Slavery takes me back to the time my ancestors were taken and brought into a new world just to become slaves and work in the cotton field. Yet, the reality is that after…

philosophies advocate liberty, equality and freedom from oppressive government. Yet, in The Second Treatise on Civil Government, Locke justifies the colonization and disempowerment of Native Americans and Africans in his discussions of freedom, property and slavery. In The Racial Contract, Charles W. Mills exposes the contradictions in Locke’s political and theoretical thought, particularly his deviation from the law of nature when it came to non-European people of color. According to John…

The tension between the White Americans and African Americans root causes were slavery. Slavery impacted my interviewee, for it brought all of the African Americans to North America as slaves. The wounds that slavery left behind in American history were still fresh during the time of the interviewee. My interviewee also joined many protests with the African Americans in…

SLAVERY ENDED AFTER CIVIL WAR Life as African American people has dramatically changed since the civil war. Before the civil war, the owner of Southern plantations owned lots of slaves. Most slaves worked long hours on their daily bases. They never got paid for their hard work. They were abused all the time by their owners, and they lived in bad conditions. Conversely to the South, the black people in the North were free men. Many of them were educated in school and joined the army in helped…

The Atlantic Slave Trade was an extensive system of chattel slavery that dealt exclusively in the trade of black Africans. Chattel slavery is markedly different from other forms of servitude as it involved the actual ownership, in law, of one human over another - as opposed to punitive slavery which used convicted criminals as a source of free labour. It is important to remember, when talking about the Atlantic Slave Trade, that slavery was not a new invention and that slaves were to be found…

Slavery took place in the 18th and 19th century, and ended at different times regarding on the countries. For example, it ended in 1865 in the United States, 1848 for the French colonies, or 1833 in Britain. This idea of abolition strengthened after the French Revolution and the US Revolution. One of the issues of slavery was the dominance of white people upon black people. Which right gave them the possibility to exploit…

Due to the demand for labor, slaves were traded and sold to white communities. Slavery tended to be associated with race, a concept that drew a line between those who were white and those who were black. Slaves either indentured servants or chattel slavery were known to be property of their owner and of the white community (Foner, GML, 104). In America slavery was based on plantations and agriculture, which brought large numbers of African American workers under…

Reflection Paper 2: Worse Than Slavery I thought that after a while that history couldn’t shock me anymore. It’s bursting of many disturbing stories, hypocritical beliefs and actions and simple bloodthirsty ignorance. I was wrong, history is full of ironic situations, beliefs and actions that shocked me. The Book: Worse than slavery, is a book that contents don’t skirt around issues and is chock full irony that can be amusing and some that is just plain sickening. In the Book, I found Irony in…

through family and sexual conduct. Wyatt-Brown actually presents the causation for southern behaviors through the patriarchal machismo of southern society by examining how male genitalia defines the symbolic power of “honor” as a foundation for slavery and a white-male-dominant culture. More so, Wyatt-Brown (1986) argues that women were taught to be experts…