How Slavery Still Effects America
How Slavery still influences America
Slavery isn’t a short sweet story (as illustrated above). Slavery (a form of forced labor), contrary to common belief in the USA, did not start in the Americas, nor was it restricted to black African people; it has existed in almost all cultures and continents, and even exists to this day, in one form or another, in some places. Slavery has affected how people live, for good, and bad. Slavery made slave owners lives much easier as they get the slaves to do all of the dirty work, however, slaves live strenuous lives, and are treated inferiorly, and are considered as property.
Many people in the past have helped the civil rights movement, to give slaves freedom; such as Dred Scott, Nat Turner, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and many more.
Slavery reinforced the belief that one group of people is better than another simply because of different skin color, which consequently lead to racism. Racism is a form of verbal assault that was extensively used in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, slavery was still very common and people didn’t think twice about mistreating a black person. This is portrayed many times in Huck Finn, as the word ‘nigger’ is perpetually used, to show how they treated blacks verbally.
When Sally asks if anyone was hurt in the explosion (on the steamboat), Huck replies “No’m. Killed a nigger,” to which Sally replied “Well, it’s lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt.” Sally was undoubtedly racist in this comment, as she is basically saying that a black man’s life amounts to nothing, and is worthless. She doesn’t even recognize Jim as human, but more of a thing or animal. This shows how slavery affected people in the past.
In the last two years, there has been much controversy about the new (44th) President of America, Barack Obama, who is black. Many people disliked him for a number of different reasons. Here is an online
Slavery isn’t a short sweet story (as illustrated above). Slavery (a form of forced labor), contrary to common belief in the USA, did not start in the Americas, nor was it restricted to black African people; it has existed in almost all cultures and continents, and even exists to this day, in one form or another, in some places. Slavery has affected how people live, for good, and bad. Slavery made slave owners lives much easier as they get the slaves to do all of the dirty work, however, slaves live strenuous lives, and are treated inferiorly, and are considered as property.
Many people in the past have helped the civil rights movement, to give slaves freedom; such as Dred Scott, Nat Turner, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and many more.
Slavery reinforced the belief that one group of people is better than another simply because of different skin color, which consequently lead to racism. Racism is a form of verbal assault that was extensively used in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, slavery was still very common and people didn’t think twice about mistreating a black person. This is portrayed many times in Huck Finn, as the word ‘nigger’ is perpetually used, to show how they treated blacks verbally.
When Sally asks if anyone was hurt in the explosion (on the steamboat), Huck replies “No’m. Killed a nigger,” to which Sally replied “Well, it’s lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt.” Sally was undoubtedly racist in this comment, as she is basically saying that a black man’s life amounts to nothing, and is worthless. She doesn’t even recognize Jim as human, but more of a thing or animal. This shows how slavery affected people in the past.
In the last two years, there has been much controversy about the new (44th) President of America, Barack Obama, who is black. Many people disliked him for a number of different reasons. Here is an online