"What Right Can A Man Have To
"What Right Can A Man Have To Compel His Neighbor To Toil Without Reward, And Leave The Same Hopeless Inheritance To His Children, In Order That He May Live In Luxury And Indolence?" From the landing of Christopher Columbus until today, this nation has struggled to become a realm of idealism. We have fought mightily along the way, and for a period of time during the start we nearly didn't find the right path at all. Slavery was viewed differently by all involved. It was justified by the Southern slaveowners and despised by the oppressed African Americans. It held back the development of the South by self-inflicted oppression of the poor whites and was the most shameful period of American history. Somehow, Southern slaveowners managed to persuade both themselves and Northerners for many years that slavery was not the vile institution that the slaves purported it to be. In fact, a slaveowner said that the slave, "is happier here than on the shores of his own degraded, savage, and most unhappy country" (Shi and Mayer 530). Further to justify slavery, according to one slave owner, the slave is, "scarcely acquainted with the word care. He never suffers from unwholesome food. No fear of want disturbs his slumbers. Hunger
Of course, not all Southern whites were plantation owners, and for these people the practice of slavery was detrimental to their ability to maintain a livelihood. There was no law to protect "Nelly", a slave accused of instructing another slave to burn down a barn. " For the Record: A Documentary History of America. Slaves did manual labor and they were not slaves. At other than harvest-time they would sometimes work for the farmers but never at agricultural labor. The work was regulated with a whip, "which he often cracked at them" (516). In Virginia, poor whites would hire themselves out for a dollar a day to help with the harvest. Slaves were not given beds and were too tired to even notice. " For the Record: A Documentary History of America.
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