Monday, November 28, 2011
Slavery
In the United States, slavery was an entirely different system then the world had ever seen. Sure, the United States wasn't the largest recipients of slaves during the Atlantic Slave Trade, however, their impact was much more monumental. In the US, slavery became more of a lifestyle, than an economic system. Of course it was still done for profit, but slavery was taken to much more bloody extremes in the United States than in the rest of the world. Could one argue that this is the reason that it lasted so long here compared to elsewhere?
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I think it would be difficult to argue otherwise. In other nations where slavery existed, once liberation came about, since there was no "lifestyle" alteration in terms of degradation and separation, slaves much more easily adjusted. However, in the U.S. this was not the case, how could it be? For an incredible length of time, blacks were pressed down in U.S. society to nothing more than a subhuman service. Once "liberation" came about, people still held those same views, they just couldn't express it in quite the same terms.
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