Why Is Slavery Wrong
Let me start off by saying that there was no capacity for all people to be just and equal as long as African American slavery still existed. The World Dictionary definition of “just” is based on behaving according to what is morally right and fair. Slavery began in America in the 1620’s and existed for over 200 years. Slavery was turmoil, assisted by the force of owners and the threat of disgrace and detachment from family and the general public. Not only was slavery very hard work, slavery was a system of kidnapping, possession and ultimate violence. “There have been as many as 60 million Africans who have died during the system of slave trade” . Slave women were forced to have sex with their masters on a regular basis, and if they didn’t
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He said, “Be it good or bad, slavery has grown up with our society and institutions, and is so interwoven with them that to destroy it would be to destroy us as a people”. These are words from a man who loved slavery, and had no care for African Americans, someone who would do anything to prevent the abolition of slavery. The topic of slavery became so controversial that some leaders couldn’t even talk about it. Even the Founding Fathers didn’t put the word “slavery” in the Constitution. Many people believe that they were ashamed of it and hoped that slavery would eventually die. So when the Constitution was written to form a more perfect Union and establish Justice, the Founding Fathers never even mentioned anything about slavery in their writings. This proved to show that their initial focus really wasn’t to be a nation that was just and equal. However, they did talk about slaves during the drafting of the Constitution in 1787, but only about how the population of slaves would be counted for legislative representation and taxing purposes. There were many delegates who supported slavery and wanted to include slaves in the population count, while the few who opposed slavery only wanted the free people of a population to be counted. This debate enacted the Three-Fifths
He said, “Be it good or bad, slavery has grown up with our society and institutions, and is so interwoven with them that to destroy it would be to destroy us as a people”. These are words from a man who loved slavery, and had no care for African Americans, someone who would do anything to prevent the abolition of slavery. The topic of slavery became so controversial that some leaders couldn’t even talk about it. Even the Founding Fathers didn’t put the word “slavery” in the Constitution. Many people believe that they were ashamed of it and hoped that slavery would eventually die. So when the Constitution was written to form a more perfect Union and establish Justice, the Founding Fathers never even mentioned anything about slavery in their writings. This proved to show that their initial focus really wasn’t to be a nation that was just and equal. However, they did talk about slaves during the drafting of the Constitution in 1787, but only about how the population of slaves would be counted for legislative representation and taxing purposes. There were many delegates who supported slavery and wanted to include slaves in the population count, while the few who opposed slavery only wanted the free people of a population to be counted. This debate enacted the Three-Fifths