Slavery is cruel, destructive. Against human rights. But it is also an extremely simple concept. It has endured the centuries, side by side with the human race. It is based on the principles of one specific race or ethnic group, being considered inferior to another and is therefore captured and used for labor. Our earliest civilizations have made huge profits of it. Look back in history and recall the Ancient Egyptian civilization, a huge fountain of knowledge, culture and religion for everything there is today. What comes in mind first when we hear: Egypt? Pyramids, Pharaos and instantly slaves. They were the ones who had built the pyramids, the great libraries of Alexandria and they were the country’s strongest workforce. Until the day Egypt crumbled under the might of the Roman Empire it was the most powerful and influential civilization on earth. Here I turn to Rome. Rome, a brilliantly shining metropolis of teaching, knowledge, arts, entertainment, wealth, power. Everything came together in Rome. But if we look back in time at the days where Rome was still an evolving community at the banks of the Tiber River, we see, what really made Rome. It wasn’t just the young and glorious Romulus, but a horde of Northern Italian barbarians who had been captured by his followers and were used to build houses or homes as slaves. And going forward again, we see that it wasn’t the glorious legionnaires that built the astonishing aqueducts, Coliseum, Circus Maximus, the great baths, the most important outposts such as Hadrian’s wall and Limes wall. They were slaves. Dirty, ill-treated slaves sold as life stock goods around the Empire.
Other examples are: The Spanish Empire, which had used their Aztec or Inca slaves to harvest gold from the great mines they’ve discovered, which was sold at an enormously great price throughout Europe. The British Trading Empire, which consisted of labor for Spices, Ivory etc. plantations which was then sold and traded, could not have existed without a local workforce. And at last, the most notorious for Slavery, The USA. When the thirteen American colonies declared their independence in JULY, 1776, they knew they had the chance to start over new. They could build up a whole new world. But of course, as it was always the case in history, they needed workers. So they established trading routes from the West Indies, or African continent, from which they shipped-in another million of African slaves, who would work the American plantations. As America was a vast, large continent, a lot of construction had to be done. Railroads were established through Native American territory and Natives were captured and forced to work for the government. Until the Industrial revolution, which had blown in from Europe, had taken over the USA, which had greatly developed, they carried-on with that, building their own army and making their own laws. When the Industrial revolution took over and America experienced an incredible boost upwards, socially and economically and when open thinking slowly came through and made it’s way through the laws, leading to great socialists such as Karl Marx for example etc., people started to question what they have been doing since their earliest communities. People started to call for reformation and two days before Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkis Booth, who couldn’t stand the situation, the day when the Unionist troops triumphed over General Lee’s Confederate army, it was finally the hour of the abolition of slavery. Like in the Proclamation of Independence:” All men, are created equal under god.