...Racism cannot be confined to a specific time period. It is believed to have started way before the slave trade which occurred during the early 1500s to late 1800s. Therefore, they have no correlation with each other. Many people believe that the existence of slavery is due to racism. However, if slavery was due to racism African people wouldn’t make their own people slave and sell them to other people. African people were selling their own people to the colonies to make profits. The main purpose of slavery was to increase their productivity and make more profit. Most importantly, the main purpose of slavery was to make more produced with cheaper labor. A quote that supports this idea is, “It is clearly shown that the production of cotton depends,...
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...Slavery has been a major issue in United States history. The mistreatment of enslaved people has been a blight on this nation since its inception. The Middle Passage to the slave auctions and the general brutality in which enslaved people face is beyond horrific. Thankfully, there were some who began a push to abolish slavery in this country. Abolitionists fought in a variety of ways to end this brutal practice and create a more equal and just society. While there were ways in which the efforts to abolish slavery were successful, there were other ways in which those efforts were unsuccessful. Some of the efforts to abolish slavery were successful. In document 1b, there are numerous states in the Northern portion of the United States that decided...
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