Slavery is a horrible part of are old history. The effects of slavery of have affected many and still continues to haunt the. The after affects of slavery still haunt those who were apart of it. It impacted their ability to get jobs and make money because it spirals down to the next generations. It still greatly impacts the african americans of today. The American anti-slavery society was started in 1833 but evolutionist set the republic. The charter of Georgia prohibited slavery and many of its settlers for a losing battle against the colony. Before independence, black Christians, Quakers and other religious groups argued that slavery was incomparable with Christ teaching. In other words a number of revolutionary saw the contradiction between demanding freedom for themselves while holding salves. Economic slavery was in the south, Northerners also held slaves. As did African-Americans and native Americans Southerners opposed slavery. Abolitionist literature began to appear in about 1820 until the civil war pressed reduced a steadily growing group of newspapers, speeches, reports and memoirs of former slaves.
As found in the Merriam Webster dictionary Capitalism mean an economic system characterized “by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.” The age of the Britain was in full, powerful force in 1787-1788. It was the first ever mass campaign against the slave trade that had taken place previously and had ended with a mass petition movement in 1838. Southern states needed the cheap labor because they needed a lot of hands to pick the massive amounts of crops on the cotton plantations. In contrast when talking about the authors of the North (against slavery) they had moral opinions about slavery being wrong, but it was also easier because economically the South needed slaves, but the industrialized North no longer needed a vast workforce. Mobility can refer to two things in, the first is physical mobility and the second is mobility within the slave population. When talking about mobility, again with any proponent of slavery, it was mobile for them to move the country forward through a booming economy, that was coming from the result of slave labor being free. When talking about the northern opponents, it made sense and they defended upward mobility because they believed in a better tomorrow. The author talks about the importance of not having slavery in the eyes of god and connects that idea to the overall overarching American historical theme of Christianity. They connect the history of America being a free nation that believes in God, that was established to allow all people freedom. One of the ideas of capitalism is that God does not condone capitalism on the backs of other people. As for mobility, the opponents to slavery said that the mobility of man is the right endowed by God, and that if any person of color wants to be free and has the skill that require him to work a job then he should be allowed to work that job. If someone is controlling mobility than they are in other words controlling the people. Everyone should be free to make their own decisions and do what they want. No one should have to be a slave to anyone, it is their life to live, not someone else's. Freedom is an important aspect to each individual.
The proponents of slavery did advocate under the idea that slavery was the divine will of God, and that if people wanted to be free than they had to be whites. These authors argued that nature made African Americans less smart and less of a person than them, and that the white owners were actually doing them a favor giving them work. Many of these men that liked slavery argued that it was them were using capitalism to help the African Americans. They argued that the African Americans were better of being slaves because they had purpose, food, and shelter. They thought they were doing a good thing, and that God wanted them to do this.
Work cited:
“Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention [1833]” in Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society at the Third Decade. New York: American Anti-slavery Society, 1864.