Examples Of Bias In American History

Throughout history there are many different perspectives, but what they all have in common is that the man narrating wishes to gain from his perspective and he will manipulate his words to form bias.

There are three forms of Bias in American History, first and most easily identifiable is propaganda. An occurrence of propaganda is the two tellings of the battle of sand creek. Chivington states that the casualties for women and children were very low. He went so far as to say that the greater number of children and wives escaped. In this account, all-in­-all a battle with few signs of a massacre, causing the reader to see general chivington as the leader of an honorable battle. Chief Black kettle’s account of the same battle was very contradictive. He mentions how a girl age of six was shot while she was carrying a white flag to signal surrender and peace. He also states that many children had died in their mothers arms. The difference is astounding, and the truth can not be something in the middle but rather one or the other. General Chivington used propaganda to make his massacre seem as honorable as possible, and to glorify
From what we know Jefferson was anti slavery, but he never really fought for it. However that is not all of it, Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. He had a slave woman with whom he bore children with. He also was in-debt at one point of his life, and he used slaves to increase his income. Thomas Jefferson never openly admitted that he had slaves, but he openly stated that he was against slavery. This benefits him as the full personality of Thomas Jefferson can only be found by digging deeper, rather than him being the perfect founding forefather that we thought. Many people believe that Thomas Jefferson was a truly great man, and while he did do good, the people of today are not fully aware of the bad that Thomas Jefferson was part