During this revolution, there were four main classes known as: “Rich plantation owners, wealthy free people of color, petit blancs, and slaves” (Green), and everybody knew who they were. There was an obvious separation between classes and each class knew it. Adding onto this, we saw interesting hostility between two close social classes. The significance of the hostility between the petit blancs and the slaves was that the petit blancs were hostile, but their thoughts that fueled this hostility for slaves was illogical. The reasoning that they had was that they were less than slaves because they were not rich enough to own any (Hetler).
What if the Africans/African Americans were the slave owners? Would it be wrong? It made some slave holders and their overseers brutal, it made other white people feel guilty and ashamed. Slavery was a moral sickness upon the society. Most slave owners were of white descent and for them to turn their back on their own kind is awfully inhumane, you could tell immediately that these people had no type of conviction or mercy within their own race.
Columbus’s exploration of the New World ended lives and heritage of many people. The Discovery of the New world was later on followed by series of minor developments in navigation, geography, astronomy and economy through the Atlantic circuit but in contrast it even these minor devalopments were ”Not..worth price of human lives.”(Sale 188). Additionally Europeans imposed and substituted their institutions, ideas,languages, cultures, technologies and economy for the New World’s original heritage and language. Also” it gave birth to the most infamous and the most atrocious of all traffics, that of slave, the most execrable of crimes against nature (Reynal /190)”. Ships of African slaves crossed the Atlantic to the Americas to work on European sugar and tobacco plantations under the harshest conditions, which led to an end of many slaves’ lives.
Before the Civil war ended, African Americans were treated unequally even though slaves were literally emancipated. At the period where the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was set, niggers were known to be uneducated, liars, and any negative comments the white masters could ever think of. They were not considered to be human nor were they having any rights. Rather, they were thought to be goods by merchants, washing machines by masters, or even toys by children. Most Africans in America at that period had extremely low self-esteem, believing they were inferior to the white Americans, and suffered from work and the separation of their families.
That agricultural industry in the South was so corrupt that farmers gained no profit from their livestock and crops, therefore was inefficient and moving backwards. Communication between the North and South was very difficult, almost as if the North and South were two different countries, the Liberal government didn’t do a very good job in controlling the two divisions. Cavour said “To harmonise the north with the south is more difficult than to fight Austria or struggle with Rome.” In 1896 Italy tried to gain back their empire, in doing so they tried to take Adowa back in Africa, but suffered a humiliating defeat, and stunted their right to being called ‘a Great Nation’. Due to the fact that Liberal Italy found it hard to communicate across the two divisions, Liberal Italy was therefore unstable and not very secure. The new
But for those who were for slavery were also infuriated because it was supposedly a false depiction of slavery. These were people who lived in the south and they felt as if the author did not have adequate knowledge of how slavery was in the south because she had never visited. To their knowledge Stowe had gotten most of her information from the South’s newspapers. Therefore they had published articles about incidents that had involved the cruelty committed to slaves in the
The imbalance of power in relationships plays a crucial role in the act of cruelty. At its center, cruelty exists when a majority has the power of the minority with a weakness. Such an example is that of the slaves in early America. African Americans, when brought to America had no financial means (resources), education, nor did they stand a chance in our society especially in governmental affairs. They were told that they were of lesser human value than their white counterparts and the white’s outnumbered them.
They saw both slaves and indentured servants as property and could abuse that power as they saw fit. Many slaves and indentured servants simply did not live- the rate of death seems horrific by today’s standard of living in the United States. Both could earn their freedom, but each individual case was as different as the masters they
On the other hand, the farmers start suffering with the rules the rich people wanted to put over them, they had been left with smaller, less productive tobacco farms. They had no power in the government, because only large plantation owners were allowed to vote, the farmers were in need of more land, and they had to fight with Indians over land rights. Then it comes the rebellion of the farmers where they start fighting for justice, being abused, taxes and many other reasons; although the rebellion was not successful, it was one of the major economic and political developments in the American
Some black males were not allowed to vote, while others lost employment opportunities. These harsh laws followed up underneath the Fugitive Slave Law. The constant undermining view of African Americans being inferior to white people in every way continued to spread throughout the northern states. During 1820-1860, the American society was very selfish. The average American focus was not on the inhumane treat against the black people but the competiveness that was caused because of the black people.