Slavery Introduced to America

Nicholas Rupiper

9/12/2017

First Short Response Assignment

Unknown to some is the fact that slavery was practiced long before any attempts to discover the Americas were even made. Back then however, slavery was not racially inclined; people of any race could be a slave all the same; it was all a matter of class and wealth. As years went on people changed, as well as slave policies; slavery was used as a form to pay debts that a person had accrued. Jumping straight to the seventeenth century, when slavery became more systematic and used for profit, Britain developed the idea that only those of non-white skin could become slaves. This was a practice that came to be because Europeans believed it to be sinful to enslave other Europeans, and because blacks came from Africa there was no way, in the minds of the Europeans, that it would be sinful to enslave them. And then, of course, human selfishness came into play and Europeans saw that profit could be had on account of the high demand for slaves in the Americas.

Even in today’s society economy rules the world, almost every decision it makes has the economy taken into consideration. It’s not difficult to see why the Europeans took to forcing people into slavery, it was basically a functioning “get rich quick” scheme in that period. Though, because of the radicality that slavery was practiced, remains of it can still be found today in forms of racism and segregation; This is so true that radical anti-racism groups are now present and forcing society into another state of change in the exact opposite way. The old phrase “history is destined to repeat itself” holds true, but this time is combined with the theory that “every action has an equal and opposite reaction” meaning that humanity is going to be forced into a society where nobody can voice anything about another

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