In the article titled “The 1619 Project” Nikole Hannah jones discusses her views on slavery in the United States. She talks about how United States was the place that created slavery. She discusses how it is important to learn about slavery and the history of the United States. She mostly discusses the 1619 project because that’s when most of the slaves arrived to the United States. She talks about the reasons why the American Civil War was fought in her essay. In response to a question, “was the civil war fought in response to slavery?” she says that it was just to get to get their independence from British for American colonists to keep slavery alive. In the article from American Institute for Economic research it states that, “One of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.” Meaning that the colonists just didn’t declare slavery because they wanted to end slavery but they did that to keep slavery. Even though Thomas Jefferson wrote and revised the constitution, it was known that he also owned slaves. In comparison to today we can make a claim that everything depends on profit. Even today, as of now. Most of the people are still going to work even though the corona virus breakout throughout the world. It is all because of profit. Back then, during the slavery days those slave owners didn’t want to end slavery because they were making a lot of profit with slaves. Today, when we go on the train and we see a homeless person on the train, we tend to ignore them or not care about them. It’s not that we don’t care about them it’s that we are trying to protect ourselves from getting sick because nobody knows what kind of sickness those people have. In my opinion, I personally discriminate those type of people because I know everyone goes through hardships and life is not easy. But I don’t think those people are slaves because they are just people that doesn’t have any resources to live a happy life like everybody else. But we do ignore or stay away from them because we are trying to protect ourselves from getting sick.
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In the article titled “The 1619 Project” Nikole Hannah jones discusses her views on slavery in the United States. She mentions on how the U.S. was the place that invented slavery. She also discusses how important it is to learn about the slavery plus the history of the United States. The 1619 project was crucial to her article because it had a point from which when most of the slaves arrived to the United States. Some reasons that she talks about why the American Civil War was fought in her article. In response to a question, “was the civil war fought in response to slavery?” she states that it was just to get to get their independence from British for American colonists to keep slavery alive. In the article from American Institute for Economic research it states that, “One of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.” Meaning that the colonists just didn’t declare slavery because they wanted to end slavery but they did that to obtain slavery. Even though Thomas Jefferson had written and revised the constitution, it was known that he also owned slaves. Comparing it today’s world, we all can claim that everything depends on profit. Most of the people are still attending work even though there are serious health issues occurring as of now throughout the world. It is all because of profit. Back then, when slavery was ok, slave owners didn’t agree on ending slavery because they were making a lot of profit with slaves. Today, when we travel by local transit as an example of trains and we come across many homeless people, we tend to ignore them or not care about them. It’s not that we don’t care about them it’s that we are trying to protect ourselves from getting sick but also, they’re so many how many are you gonna help. In my opinion, I personally discriminate those type of people because I know everyone goes through hardships and life is not easy. But I don’t think those people are slaves because they are just people that doesn’t have any resources to live a happy life like everybody else. But we do ignore or just walk away from them.