In American Slavery and ‘the Relentless Unforeseen’ reading by Sean Wilentz. I can see that he not only sees Americans as those who contributed to the speech of other slaves. Talk about why society was so cruel and hypocritical in allowing all these abuses towards people who couldn’t defend themselves how they had that heart to use them that way to mistreat them like that. He talks about slavery in Europe is essential to a European settlement in the New World. He connects with Hannah Jones because like her he expresses that the European slaves also helped to improve the country with their effort and work. In the same way, they were humiliated and belittled when they did all the heavy lifting. The author talks about what the brutal slave trade was like in the Atlantic since there was no political interest in this. My question is why governments allowed that. What was the purpose of mistreating people? They were unscrupulous people who had no family or who did not feel well inside. Having that hard heart of not taking importance towards the suffering of others. Does money make people hard and without feelings? Everything seems to change decades later where anti-slavery activists appear. Where they carry out various types of reforms where they blame that slavery is considered pure evil. These activists were people with power or slaves? How they managed to reach so many people and make a change for the slaves. What motivated them to want to make a change. Back then there were still good people who did not want to do any harm to poor and defenseless people. Not because they had money they despised slaves, instead they used their money and power to convince other politicians to eradicate the degradation of property. The slaves fought hard to give the new world a symbolic meaning which was that of rebirth, the whole fight, the transformation on their part made all this change possible.
Slavery helps the foundation of the nation because of the ideals of the revolution. All of this triggered a desire for freedom for all. There was a time when the southern United States became the world’s most ambitious slavery regime. Slavery in the United States had not completely disappeared until emancipation arrived where a “new birth of freedom” was developed that was made by Lincoln in 1863. Slavery grew enormously after the Revolution, where they dominated national politics due to a very well organized slave power. Americans justified racism as an aspect of life. To this day, many Americans agree that people not born here cannot have the same privilege that they do. But the problem is that those ideals that they have come from the past are people who have not suffered and have not had a hard life, they are people who come from good families. Families with money that have all the opportunities so they do not see the effort that undocumented people make to get here, many of them leaving everything in the country of origin. Many people are raped, outraged or even beaten for having the dream of a better life. If those people had good opportunities in their own countries they would not risk as much, but they did not have the same opportunities as the Americans to grow up in a family with money and opportunities. Many Americans look down on immigrant people for not studying or not knowing English. But that is something that must change. I hope that in time these things improve and this country continues to give more opportunities to the least needy.
