Essays on Slavery

In the age of slavery, white American society considered African people to be benighted heathens with the other skin color, body structure, and inappropriate traditions and culture. Such conclusions were drawn mostly upon the widespread idea about the superiority of Whites and the absence of Christianity in Africa. American society prevented the assimilation of African-American slaves even after the generations of their presence on the American land and repudiated their equality to Whites even when they started to adopt Christian way of life. For Americans, African people had continued to be barbarians who had come to America to be ...

Question and Answers

Question 1

The schools were seen as a mean to social advancement, tool for equality, and social stability vehicle that will help instill discipline among the students. The proponents of public schools argued that it was a tool that would be used to bring about equality in the societies. This was to be achieved through bringing in children from different social backgrounds together to learn common values. Mann, a proponent argued that the institution would reinforce social stability by liberating students from their parents’ influences that failed to encourage discipline among them. The proponents believed that schools were important ...

Question 1: Slavery not morally wrong until late 18th century

The slavery era was a dark period for the minority groups and especially the African American who were held as slaves. Prior to the 18th Century, slavery was considered normal as the laws by then protected the salve owners and legitimized the actions. Prior to the 18th century, the only groups that were eager and willing to talk against slavery were the Quakers, slaves, and free blacks. The people who advocated for the freedom of the slaves coupled the calls for freedom with colonization, deportation to Africa, Caribbean or to Central America. This school of thoughts was information by ...

Question 1: Initial Post

The books Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Harriet Jacobs and Blake; or the Huts of America (1859–1861) by Katy L. Chiles extensively compares in the themes, especially the plight of slaves during the antebellum period. Keckley’s is an autobiographical non-fiction narrative that describes her childhood experiences and her plight as a woman slave. At the age of 14, Keckley is raped by a white man and gives birth to a son, George. Mrs. Burwell, on the other hand, encourages Mr. Bingman, the schoolmaster to physically abuse her in order to suppress her ...

Introduction

Social advances at great lengths are the predecessor of technological advancement. Although technological advance is available globally, improved living standard of the people greatly depends on the social achievement, which is a precursor to technological transformation. In the article, The Ménagier's Wife: A Paris Housewife in the Fourteenth Century written between 1892 and 1394 by a Ménagier to her youthful wife to inform her of the moral conduct of a good wife, he clearly depicts technological transformation through the specs of social achievement in the society now and then3. Therefore, the paper will examine various social achievements ...

In my research on the topic of Human Trafficking, I have learned the following: that there are an estimated 600,000 – 800,000 people who are trafficked across international borders each year. I have also determined that human trafficking represents a significant criminal underworld, that takes away personal liberties and undermines community and safety.

These observations lead me to ask the following question:

How can human trafficking be prevented or stopped? This question has several plausible answers. For example, according to Chuang, the issue of human trafficking must be considered from the global perspective. More specially, he suggests that while trafficking is made up of a series of ...

Education is the process through which acquiring knowledge, skills, and beliefs are facilitated. Education takes place under the guidance of an educator through methods such as training, teaching discussion and research. Learners advance through various levels from kindergarten to college. Everyone has a right to acquire education. Higher education is a voluntary stage of higher learning progress from the secondary education. Most of the students do not like joining the institution of higher education after finishing the basic education. Higher learning is an important tool for competition in white collar jobs. In America, higher education is not compulsory, and ...

Human trafficking is the act of conducting illegal human beings exploitation and trade for forced labor, reproduction favors or prostitution. In today's world, human trafficking is equivalent to slavery. The international community must do what it can to recognize it as such if at all this crime is to be fully eradicated (Kempadoo, 94-95).

Research questions

How does a free society compare to a repressive society for the purpose of forced labor on human trafficking? What societal factors contribute to the human trafficking today? How do they lead to human trafficking and how can they be prevented? (Davidson, 244).

What are the evils which are associated with human trafficking?

How is ...

Cyber Defense

Background In the recent past, there has been an increasing reliance on technology to undertake numerous aspects of social, political, and economic lives in many countries across the globe. While the reliance on technology has had a positive impact on many aspects of our lives, that reliance also inherently attracts threats such as cyberterrorism. Consequently, cyber defense becomes a crucial element for nations. Cyber defense refers to the deliberate steps taken by governments to protect information that they hold to be sensitive. Cyber threats are not just a danger to the individual countries such as the U.S. that have ...

Many people associate slavery with the transatlantic slave trade of the past and believe that it is an institution that has been left in the past. This paper will look at how modern slavery differs from the transatlantic slave trade. The paper provides different arguments and examples from history of slavery and compares it to its current form. Moreover, the paper will include types of slavery that exist today. The role of United Nation to control the slavery in different countries will also be discussed. The paper will not only present the history of slavery but it will also ...

For some human rights to work each and every person ought to possess a well-defined domain of agency and this domain requires to be defined by the person’s rights, in which he is strongly shielded from external disturbances. Therefore, to respect other people’s rights is to make sure that they may pursue their goals provided they do not violate others people’s rights to pursue their goals. Certainly, for people to come up with and pursue their goals, agents require to be soundly guaranteed that they will be able to make use of definite means and perform ...

How to overcome racism if our own justice system is racial? We know that our nation has struggled a lot of unjust racial cases. For example, in the period of pre-civil war, the southern part of the United States was covered with slavery. The life of Black-African American groups was horrible as they were slaves and were treated as slaves also. They were a property that white people could buy and sell, had no rights, and were not protected by the legislature. In 1865, Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery, and the modern days are known for the public fight with ...

Chapter Review

The idealism of race and property has existed since the early 20th century. The individual's race determined the economic, political, and social security. The author’s grandmother struggles with survival with two children living as a single mother. Eventually, she hides her identity as a Black woman at workplaces dominated by whites in order to secure her job. Her story illustrates the valorization of whiteness as treasured property in a society built on a racial castle (Harris, 1993). White supremacy over the Black people and Native American people transformed whiteness from color, to race, to status, and eventually to ...

Organ donation and transplantation are notable hallmarks in medicine. Medical advancements are significantly confronting complicated conditions through organ transplantation and related practices such as grafting. Over the years, the procedures have grown and developed. However, organ donation and transplantation are surrounded by various ethical and legal issues. This paper discusses these issues in detail and elicits the relationship between them. The analysis is in line with both the support and opposition of organ donation and transplantation, particularly in Australia. The paper will also provide my personal stance and the final ethical decision by leveraging several theoretical perspectives – deontology, consequentialism, ...

The two former slaves provided their accounts of life under the fierce claws of the slave masters. The basis of their artistry is deemed as the most significant literary account of the slavery. They shared numerous experiences as well as disparities in the manner they were handled and their constant struggles to freedom.

Comparison

Both Douglas and Jacobs were subjected to hard labor. In what was characteristic of slavery, the two had similar experiences in their slave lives. As part of the barbaric treatment of slaves, their masters sent them to hard labor (Ernest, 49). Douglas Fredrick is sent to ...

Thesis Statement: The film illustrated how greed and blood lust of the people can lead to a bitter end after several African Americans became victims of exploited labor force which is in the simplest form of slavery employed by the Native Americans, who took advantage of their ignorance during the 18th century. 1.) The block quotation that was chosen and was compressed in the film which and should have been more highlighted is the line, “As the price of whale oil continued to rise, while the economy of the other countries continued to suffer due to economic depression, Nantucket ...

Fredrick Douglas (1817-1895)-the most famous African American of the 19th century- raises some relations in regard to education, freedom and oppression. He states that the “the only way to keep people enslaved is to prevent them from learning and acquiring knowledge” (Douglas). Seeing how hard Master Hugh and his wife tried hard to prevent Douglas from acquiring education, Douglas compels a reader to the question “Is education the ultimate key to ending oppression in the society?” Douglas makes insinuates that education and oppression are bitter rivals. He presents the change in character in his mistress Mrs. Hugh who ...

This essay looks at my heritage and how I define myself by race through skin colour, family history, the advantages of privilege and the disadvantages of race. Finally, I look at what life or historical events have influenced my identity and what written works I have read in order to learn more about where I come from. When I was a child I did not know that my skin was the wrong colour. Being loved and sheltered as a child hides you from the nastiness of the world until you have to go out into it. My parents were ...

Question 1

The election of 1860 Despite the division of the American people during the civil war, they all had a common interest which was the elections. The people had different views on the two candidates who were to be chosen. The North was to choose between Bouglas and Lincoln while the South had to choose between John Bell and John Breckinridge. Lincoln won in the elections, and it proved that the North were more united which made them win over the South. When he became the president, Lincoln tried to unite the South and the North where he swore to ...

Slavery was a part of the American culture for almost a whole decade (1776-1865), and during that time, many people had to suffer inhumanly for the only solid reason of being a bit different from someone else. There is no way of wiping the past from the memories of those who have struggled, which means that the terror of slavery will always be a part of the human history. As the experience shows, world history is far from being pretty. It has presented its evils so many times that merely counting them would take ages. Every major society, every ...

One of the most dramatic ways in which the 19th century affected slavery was the abolishing of the slave trade from outside the United States in 1808 by an act of Congress. Despite this, slavery itself remained an institution until the end of the American Civil War in 1865. The last slave ship to arrive on American soil was the Clotilde, illegally smuggling African slaves into Mobile, Alabama in 1859. While the trading of slaves was abolished, the antebellum South still had more than its fair share of slaves to work the cotton fields and raise the South’s ...

Article 3 of the Palermo Protocol of 2000 which adds-on the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime gives the definition of trafficking of people as an international crime which entails recruiting, relocation or confinement of persons through illegal meansby using force, threatening the person, abducting them, deceiving or by misrepresenting facts primly for purposes of exploitation. The exploitation can be through enslavement, removal of organs, forced marriages, begging, and child soldiers among other activities for profit (Shelly 3).

Statement 1

The woman under the control of the pimp is vulnerable emotionally and psychologically due to the sensitive secret the pimp is ...

The 13th Amendment put an end to slavery once and for all when it declared that slavery was no longer permitted throughout the United States and all of its territories. This applied to not only slavery, but to involuntary servitude as well. The only exception to this would be if it were implemented as a form of punishment for crimes that were clearly legislated as such. The Amendment also included the granting of all power necessary to the Congress in the process of enforcing this legislation regarding any situations involving the enslavement of free people. This was necessary because ...

Introduction

Since the dawn of human civilization annihilation of millions of people has been occurring. After the two World Wars, this annihilation took place through many civil wars fought within the nations all over the world. The Genocide or the mass killing of a particular ethnic group has been a common phenomenon in civil wars. In 1990s, the Kashmiri Hindus were expelled by Muslim terrorists through severe massacre. The question is whether mass massacre is the answer to any problem. There is a universal agreement that genocide is immoral and unethical (Jones, 1999). Still even after the horrified consequences of ...

Introduction

Benin is a country found in the West African region. It borders Togo to the East and Nigeria to the West. Trade in Benin is dated back to 15th century when the Europeans involved in slave trade. The Europeans imported slaves from other African countries into Benin. However, sources argue that Benin prohibited the exportation of male slaves to prevent its population from depletion. Their main exports were Palm oil, ivory, cloth, and pepper. This paper discusses trade in Benin, its imports and exports and the changes witnessed in the last 30 years.

Benin remains a significant business hub ...

Presentation Notes

Many have said that America was built on the backs of immigration and minorities that settled in America. There is a lot of evidence to support this, as the Irish and German immigrants that came in waves during the 1880s were often used for cheap labor. In addition, African-Americans were used as slave labor until the conclusion of the Civil War, playing an important part in the development of the country. In addition, Native Americans were also prominently involved in the process, but certainly not in a positive way; this is because the United States government used resettlement techniques ...

The decade of 1845 to 1855 witnessed a rapid rise in abolitionist sentiments across the United States. Interestingly, at the forefront of the abolition movement were ex-slaves narrating their experiences in the hopes of eliciting a response from the anti-slavery forces. Now, and in perhaps the most effective tactic that the slaves employed, their narratives counteracted the dehumanizing nature of slavery. In other words, rather than accept the notion of white supremacy on which the slavery system survived, persons of African descent escaping their masters applied different tactics to argue for racial equality in the hopes of liberation for ...

Nowadays, it is extremely hard to imagine the world where there is no war, no blood and no struggle for power and influence. We get upset when we turn on the TV. However, it is important to remember that people were at war with each other from the very beginning of civilizations. People were militant because they wanted to conquer new lands and prove their strength to their neighbors. Many wars, including the legendary Trojan War, were fought for women. The entire nations were brought up prepared to go to war with other empires, including Spartans, Persians and Romans, ...

Sex Trafficking Survivors

Muraya, D.N & Fry, D. (2016). Aftercare services for child victims of sex trafficking: A systematic review of policy and practice. Sage, 17(2); 204-220. The study employed the use of current practice, a systematic review of unpublished and published research and organizational policies to explore the various aftercare services that are afforded to the victims of child sex trafficking. The study explored the various services that children survivors involved in sex trafficking are provided with and the policies in place to ensure they are taken care of. There was need for the development of best practices related to the ...

When a society started to form around any kind of institution, just like what the South did in slavery, they will create arguments to support their claims. That was what the supporters of slavery did. They created their arguments as to why the Peculiar Institution must be defended (Nash 1). The Peculiar Institution is basically slavery. It started in the United States during the early settlements of the Europeans and ended with the Civil War. During that time, slavery existed both in the North and South. There was a time when slavery was equal in both regions. However, when ...

There are many reasons why Lincoln decided to issue and implement the Emancipation Proclamation back in 1862. His main goal was to shift the war and to free the slaves. The slaves that were only affected were those in the United States and not those who were in the Confederacy (Guelzo 1). He wanted to make it more of a political agenda rather than a morally based war. During that time, Lincoln was in a difficult situation, mainly in military. The North experienced to many battles lost so the Northerners started to complain about the war. So Lincoln believed ...

Back in the nineteenth century, cotton was a big industry in the American South. However, this industry rode on the slaves’ backs. Many supporters of slavery in the United States were from the South. They were interested in the industry that was highly dependent on slaves. For them, they had the right to own slaves. They believed they had the legal rights to these slaves. They wanted to protect the Peculiar Institution because they benefitted a lot from the cheap labor provided by the slaves (Stampp 1). However, during the time, there were many movements to abolish slavery. So ...

HISTORICAL CAUSES OF POVERTY IN LEDCS

There exists different causes of poverty ranging from political institution to geography or colonization to industrialization, over population, wars and corruption among others. But in this paper, our interest will be on the historical causes of poverty such us; colonization, civil wars and the 1970 debt crisis in the LEDC. Countries can be classified into two categories, that are the MEDC a More Economically Developed Country a good example is the USA, Germany and UK and an LEDC a Less Economically Developed Country for example, Sudan and Ethiopia. There are many reasons as to why these categories exist. One ...

Significance of the study

It is important to study the psychological treatments that Nigerian sex trafficking survivors enjoy because sex trafficking inflicts deep psychological harm on the victims. The study will be beneficial to the law enforcement agencies that rescue survivors and link them to treatment services. Rehabilitation centers are potential beneficiaries as they can tailor their programs and approaches to address treatment gaps. Many traffickers control their victims using extreme measures of domination and control such as beatings, murder threats, rapes, abuse, insults, starvation, and gang rapes. Studying this topic reveals whether stakeholders are doing enough to address the psychological plight of ...

The Reconstruction after the end of the Civil War brought with it much turmoil for white natives who felt outraged by the changes in society supporting the abolition of slavery. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan whose religious beliefs are embedded in Christianity have disliked members of the African American race, as well as those of different ethnic and religious backgrounds. As immigrants continued to enter the United States and slavery became illegal, the nativists blamed these “alien”ideas and people as being a threat to the American way of life (“Klanwatch Project of SPLC”, 2016). The major social, ...

Human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transport, transfer and receipt of persons through the use of force or coercion, deception and abuse of power in order to control them and use them in providing services for the benefit of the traffickers at the detriment of the victim. Human trafficking is a deliberate act of deceiving or forcing another person against his or her will to move to from one geographical area to another geographical area to be used for labor or crime in ways that benefits the trafficker. Human trafficking is an international phenomenon. This is because it ...

Inspired by real-life events of the Lima Crisis, the novel Bel Canto creates an eloquent – and probably rather unexpected – image of the terrorist-hostage situation: Ann Pratchett drives the plot away from political and economic intricacies and moves it into the realm of real human relationships and life experiences. Pratchett places people of different occupations, languages, dispositions and tempers into one presidential mansion where – captured by the terrorists for four months – they find new ways of looking at the world and can finally take a fresher look at their lives, passions and desires. It is pure humanity in the multiplicity ...

Institutional Racism towards Black Americans

Racism, as several experts describe, has been a way of life, for quite some time in the United States (Nesbit). The rise of the pre-colonial era, and immigrations, slavery and the way people drifted towards different shores in search of power can all be accounted to the present day situation that we face in America. While slavery and apartheid ended long before, what is left over is our own complicated melee of whites, blacks, and Asians, and many more races, in a mixed colorful bouquet, and yet, creating a lot of confusion in the minds of both people and ...

1. Douglass’s main point stated that Independence Day cannot be considered a holiday as the problem of slavery has not yet been solved. This speech discovers the conflict between the slave mentality and human formation, between the state of mental, spiritual emptiness and longing for freedom. I agree with his speech because Douglas preached the idea of unity and indivisibility of the country, which is necessary for a true patriot and a loyal citizen. He believed that every citizen should be interested primarily in the development of the nation and the state as a whole which is incompatible ...

Foremost, about the losses that the Westerners caused in countries with which they came into contact, imperialism revolved around perceptions of white supremacy. The possession of white skin became the ticket one needed to guarantee his or her place among the civilized nations while that of any other shade belonged to a lower class. Surprisingly, while signs of the given perceptions were present even when the Portuguese used religion as a cause for exploration and domination of the world in the seventeenth century, it was not until the mid-nineteenth century that the West found conclusive proof. In 1859, Charles ...

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Introduction

Change is a process that impacts all organizations. As observed by management expert, Kurt Lewin, “group life is never without change, merely differences in the amount and type of change exist” (Burnes, 2004, p. 981). Most change initiatives, however, fails because of the tendency of people to resist change. People, according to management experts, fear change and so they tend to revert back to old ideas and practices even if the change is for the better. This tendency of the individuals to resist change affects the organization as a whole. Also, the longer the ...

Central to the views of Maria Stewart in her 1832 speech titled “Why Sit Ye Here and Die?” and those of Henry Highland Garnet as portrayed in his 1843 “An Address to the Slaves of the United States,” was the assertion that persons of African descent had to fight for their freedom. According to Stewart, any efforts made by “the advocates of freedom” stood a chance to be as in vain as the death of Christ for those who refused the “offered mercy” unless the free people of color made “some mighty efforts” to rescue their counterparts from slavery ( ...

Question 1 Response: Creating a new Constitution was vital to the unity of the United States of America since the Articles of Confederation weren’t sufficient for good government. If there was any evidence of this, it was that the United States was clearly bankrupt and now needed to be organized in such a manner that both the States and the Federal government had to share power in such a manner that everyone’s interests were kept in mind. A centralized approach was key to putting the country back on track. Hence, a meeting was held in the Pennsylvania ...

It is said that great character comes from the inside of a person and not the outside; that good people can be found in any race, color, gender and creed. Such is true in the case of Amanda Smith, a pioneer in evangelism and servitude during the late 19th century. Smith’s genuine character proved that goodness could transcend color, gender and tragic experience. Amanda Smith was born into slavery on January 23, 1837 in a rural town in Maryland. She spent the majority of the adolescent and adult years, however, in York, Pennsylvania, joining the family there after ...

The complexities of racism, and the ways in which society should end it, remains intriguing fodder for literature. Some of the most intriguing portrayals of these arguments are in Frances Watkins Harper’s “The Slave Auction” and “The Slave Mother,” Luis Valdez’s “Los Vendidos,” and Zitkala-Sa’s School Days of an Indian Girl. While Harper’s direct, anguished portrayals of the evils of the slave trade elicit an implicit argument to stop these practices and end their pain, Valdez is more explicit in his call for aggressive revolution and demolishing of stereotypes, and Zitkala-Sa similarly advocates for a ...

Industrialization After the Civil War

Introduction Industrialization post the Civil Battle in the U.S. had absolute consequences on the economy, politics, and society. The consequences transformed fields into towns. The country thus changed from an agricultural to an industrial region following the decades after the Civil War. The remarkable transformations arose due to different factors such as the emergence of unscrupulous corporate leaders, the existence of a massive workforce, development of technology and inventions, and the availability of raw materials. Also, came the rise of the capitalistic and corrupt entrepreneur controlled by the American Government. After the Civil War, the industrialization assisted the economy, ...

Part 1.

Ancient civilizations are famous for their innovations and fast technology development, specifically, when talking about the Ancient Egypt and Rome. The base line of my dissertation concerns the required innovations in the financial industry, thus in this paper I will refer to the innovative management approaches in the Ancient Egypt. However, prior to analyzing their methods and approaches it is important to take into account the fact that religion was dominant over civil authorities in the Ancient times. Therefore, most of their laws and management decisions were also based on the religious norms or dictated by the priests. “The ...

Civil rights movements existed before the cold war but they became stronger during this period. African Americans were behind these groups. The conditions that created the need for this movement include poverty, constant lynching of black people by white Americans, segregation, slavery and the denial of the right to vote. This was also a recipe for the Soviet Union which was engaged in a cold war with the US to dwell on propaganda about the American situation. The Civil rights movement accomplished a lot during this time. At the end, black children could go to the same schools as ...

After a read of Belinda Sutton’s 1783 Petition and the 1791 letter dubbed To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Banneker, it is impossible to overlook the authors’ shared perception of men and women of color deserving more than what the Caucasians gave them at the time. Sutton believed that after her years of captivity as the human chattel of one Isaac Royall, she should have a “morsel of [the] immense wealth” her servitude under bondage had given the master (1783, par.5). Similarly, in a wider perspective of the racist ideologies that fueled the slavery system, Banneker insisted that his ...

Indentured Servants

Indentured Servants

Introduction

At the beginning of the seventeenth century a lot of labor market institutions were created with the purpose of promoting the movement of labor. The majority of plantations in Southern English America, which were involved in the cultivation of tobacco, sugar cane, indigo and rice, began to feel an urgent demand for labor. Modern machinery was definitely providing considerable solutions, though human blood and sweat was still essential for the planting, cultivation and reaping of these commercial crops. As a result, many planters started to gradually introduce the idea of indentured servitude. This system, created because of ...

During the first 2 centuries C.E., there was a period of peace and prosperity, called Pax Romana , which remained in history as one of the happiest and prosperous periods in the entire human history. However, the achievements of the 3 emperors of the Flavian dynasty, Vespasian, and his sons, Titus and Domitian, laid the foundations for Pax Romana because it represented a period of able administration and important political, social, military and educational changes which brought prosperity in the empire. The succession of the first of these emperors, Nerva, put an end to the Flavian dynasty and in particular, ...

Introduction

Who wins and who loses? The one who wins has reflected his or her ability to influence the behavior of others. This is power. As defined by Robert Dahl, a leading political theorist, power is the ability of one to get another to do something he or she would not otherwise do as a result of the will imposed by the other, where adherence is driven by obligation rather than force. Power is dynamic, relative, situational and multidimensional. According to Steve Lukes, there are three dimensions of power. The first dimension of power is intentional and active, and involves ...

Question I:

The use of social categories to rationalizing or justifying the treatment of one group over another In America before the 1880, social categories were the norm. They found use in rationalizing and justifying the treatment of one group over another. An excellent example of this is evident in slavery, as well as, the slave trade that thrived during this period. Social categories were used to justify the need for Africans drawn from Africa into the new world. It is estimated that about 10 to 11 million African slaves were drawn from Africa and brought to the new world in ...

Multiple factors went into play before the Europeans claimed dominance over world trade routes and conquered vast lands outside Europe. With a particular interest in the fact that the Chinese boasted better navigation tools and sea vessels than the Portuguese and the Spanish did by the fifteenth century (World Shrinks17mins), the rise of the West benefited greatly from the lack of competition. In other words, if the Chinese had maintained their desire to show their military prowess to other nations, then the West would have taken longer if not failed to come into power. A view of the animated ...

How the world shrinks

The primitive era saw the world coming together in the 15th and 16th century whereby there were a shift and movement of kingdoms all around the world. The example of Angola stands as an important one as it saw a movement of the Europeans into Angola and the surrounding areas. There was a better system of administration, judiciary, and management in the country after the Europeans entered the country, and it led to its betterment. To name the areas as primitive only means, there was a lack of available options for improving the societal conditions, and when the country ...

Slavery has widely been held as the primary reason for secession in the South. However, according to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2011 found that most Americans were divided on the matter. 48% of the Americans interviewed were of the opinion that “states’ rights” was the leading cause, 38% held slavery was the primary reason while the remainder was either not sure or thought both were contributory factors (Pierce par. 2). From the poll we can infer that secession was as a result of numerous factors. This inference is supported by the Declarations of Causes, ...

Ethical Issues

Human trafficking is a worldwide problem. For all practical purposes, this activity is nothing but a form of modern slavery. Every year, about 21 million people are caught up in human trafficking from about 130 countries around the world. Without a doubt, this is a serious issue given that it violates human rights that the United Nations takes very seriously - and should. While this pertains mostly to women who are sold into prostitution while also involving children and young boys as well who are coerced into forced labour as well. Given the atrocities around the world, the purpose ...

History

Abstract Karl Marx observed the large gap between workers’ and serfs’ quality of life compared to the aristocrats running European countries from France to Russia. He theorized that viewing workers as commodities necessary to produce profits was causing deep angry feelings of alienation in the working class. The pamphlet written by Marx and Engel called The Communist Manifesto (1849). Marx’s work grew from Hegel’s theories about alienation in order to apply to society in the decade of the 1840s (Panich & Leys, 1998). Contemporary authors have determined that the feelings of alienation in 1848 were similar to what ...

Migratory History It is said that ethnic Chinese first appeared on the western shores of North America during the period of the Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, which is about between 1521 to 1815. They had accepted commissions as being businessmen, sailors and fishermen on the Spanish galleons that traversed the Pacific Ocean between the Philippines and Mexico (Brownstone, 2). Several numbers of ethnic Chinese were able to reach California as this state was still the territory of Mexico until 1848. Future expeditions to Vancouver by John Meares, a British fur trader, brought more Chinese into Vancouver around ...

Investigate the History of Slavery and discuss the ways in which this History impacts Contemporary Society

Investigate the history of slavery and discuss the ways in which this history impacts contemporary society Introduction The laws in a nation are in most cases brought about due to historic events. However, a large number of the members of our society tend either not to have a clear understanding or rather knowledge of the history of our nation. This, in turn, leads them not to have a sense of identity and end up contravening the laws of the nation due to the fact that they may take these laws for granted due to them not having an understanding ...