The Polaris Project Summary

When slaves began to fight back, physical cruelty was used to keep them working for little to no compensation. With the implementation of stop-and-frisk, not only are we building upon our already immensely lucrative incarceration population, but we also manage to keep African Americans being the majority population who is being targeted,

The Fugitive Slave Act shed some light on things, it helped to create iconic abolitionists and antislavery orators such as Frederick Douglas and others. These were actual people who had experienced slavery first hand and could describe it better than any white abolitionist. Maybe the Fugitive Slave Act allowed Northerners who had always thought slavery was hard to see slavery, saw it for the first time. The white northerners saw African American people, both free and fugitive, being dragged away in chains while there was a law in place to make sure they had no

Between 300th century and 1400th century, the most powerful African kingdoms had achieved great goals, such as developing a trade system. The empires in Africa had a solid economy which was supported by their trade. Before the Europeans arrived, these empires had hierarchies and roles in society, which helped the trade system flourish. Some achievements Africa accomplished included trade, wealth, and a complex society. One way to recognize a thriving kingdom is to look at its trade and economy.

The non-comparable information that these two slave narratives do not have in common is that Harriet Smith was born into slavery while Charlie Smith was more or less sold into it and brought over from Gatlin, Africa. Slavery in America was considered and viewed to be one of the most devastating times in history. For African Americans were forced into slavery faced abuse, neglect, and death it was others like Aunt Harriet Smith and Charlie Smith that were actually treated fairly by the ones had them. Both of these former slaves’ tales were touching and very informative that the information provided had given a more in depth look at what they faced, what they had endured, and how their lives were when slavery

Journal Entry Two 1. While it clear that the debate of slavery was the major cause to the American Civil War, there are number of pressing secondary causes that helped to accelerate the process of division within the country. Primary to these secondary causes is the effect of territorial expansion and the tension it brought between the North and South. The vast economic differences between the North and South provided a perfect scenario for political and social conflict in the new territories. As the Western territory of the Americas continued to be explored, political debate was sparked over the spread of slavery into these newly created states.

Fredrick Douglass autobiography was significant to the abolition movement in many ways by giving people hope for a new America were it made many people aware of racial prejudice making it as a sickness in one’s imagination he levied a powerful indictment against slavery and provided a voice that embraced antislavery politics and gave examples of slave narrative traditions. (PUT IN AN EXAMPLE OR QUOTE. )*Douglass gives a sense of his circumstances and sentiments, but he also insists that no reader can fully sympathize with his feelings without experiencing all of the conditions he went through. Douglass wants the reader to imagine his feelings while forcing the reader to recognize the impossibility of this imagining. Douglass request for freedom was an accomplishment (WHAT WAS THE ACCOMPLISHMENT?)

The question on how slaves were actually treated by re- revolutionary English colony masters brings some turmoil into play. Slavery gained importance in the English colonies when there was an increasing need for labor but unluckily for some slaves, certain masters were a bit gentler than others. When we first think about slavery, our reaction is always negative. And, although that is probably the best reaction to have overall, we have to realize not all slaves were treated poorly. Just like there is good and bad people in the world now, it was the same back then.

This would incite uprisings, gut, and turmoil. They demonstrated the crowd 's "direct of fear" in the midst of the French Revolt and fought for the continuation of the same old thing, which was pleasing riches and security for the slaveholding class and for every single free person who valued the plenitude of the slave society. Defenders of subjugation fought that servitude had existed all through history and was the trademark state of mankind. The Greeks had slaves, the Romans had slaves, and the English had enslavement until starting late. Watchmen of subjection saw that in the Book of sacred texts, Abraham had slaves.

With the fast growing of the cotton industry, plantation owners are expanding their profits, and increasing the use of cheap labors (slave labors). This a result further separate the North and South states. While the northern states economic depended on the industrial revolution such as factory and textile mills, the southern states were mainly agricultural dependency. Second reason the war broke out is because of the debates over slave and non-slave states

This paper has come to prove that they didn’t. With the countless senators looking for the political aspect of détente, it was the unstable state of the country that ultimately won over politics. America fell into the greatest conflict that this land has ever seen, and it was not because politics failed. Politics could not help this country that was doomed from the start. Since our inception slavery had been a mainstay off southern life and now it was slipping through their finger.

White Americans, the perpetrators of slavery, also have their own fair share of mental scarring remaining from the time of slavery. However, it takes a much different form from that which African Americans experience. It is not a feeling of distrust, or contempt for the other race, but rather one of guilt, or much more commonly, a sense of superiority over the other race. Despite the different forms that these positions take, they both contribute to the same end result of the destruction of the equity that the African-American race deserves. While these mental scars stay true to their nomenclature, and are unable to ever be repaired to the fullest extent, measures can be taken to reduce the strain on the races and to provide a more equal footing for them to stand upon, along with the rest of America.

They both wanted to increase their wealth, and both found people to force into labor. It is a classic pattern that has happened throughout human history and probably will continue to happen. What I like about The World They Made Together is that Sobel does not create an exaggerated image of what slavery in 17th century Virginia looked like. I know that there were many truly horrid people who mistreated their laborers with unspeakable cruelty, but that was not always the case. Sobel points out that there was slavery in Africa too, and that in Virginia, white laborers were often treated the same way as blacks.

We must remember slavery came to America, it was not created here, slavery was practiced all over the world and was an acceptable practice then. If someone is born into an environment and raised a certain way, they are more likely to feel that nothing is wrong with their beliefs or actions. That has been proven time and time again. If you look at the white race of early America they felt and were taught, they were superior to other races, but epically the African race. Racism exist in every race or culture there is even today.

Slavery had been an historical problem and is one of the prime causes of Civil War. The North and South were not unanimous on the issue of slavery. The United States was separated into two; with the South supporting slavery and the North opposing it. Slavery was fading in the Northern area, Border States and urban areas. However, it was expanding rapidly in the South due to highly profitable cotton districts.