Jamelle Bouie on Representing Slavery by Hikmet Aksoy

Article: “Slavery Was About Profit”

hsa55_ — 2023-11-01 18:57:11 UTC

The main reason that slavery lasted so long is because of the profits it was making to the superpowers of the world.

Article “We Still Can’t See Slavery For What It Was”

hsa55_ — 2023-11-01 19:00:03 UTC

Although there are decades of research on slavery, we, as the people of the modern world, cannot comprehend the impact that this event had on millions if not billions of lives, and some of the separation caused from this can still be seen today

Argument:

hsa55_ — 2023-11-04 02:52:20 UTC

Morality of slavery was justified by the profit that was being brought to the entire society

Article "The Atlantic Slave Trade In Two Minutes"

hsa55_ — 2023-11-04 02:59:53 UTC

A live map of the entire African slave trade orchestrated by the major European conquerers, leading to populations from continents being forceable shifting in entire populations

European Powers Change

hsa55_ — 2023-11-04 03:05:09 UTC

Only real change started to appear once the political environment started to shift in Europe, leading to the monarchs giving up the very profitable slave trade

Around the America's

hsa55_ — 2023-11-04 03:06:39 UTC

The slave trade did not only consist of the United States, but the slave ships mostly docked on Brazil and the Caribbean islands

Modern Impact

hsa55_ — 2023-11-04 03:09:13 UTC

The vastness of the African slave trade was so great, not just economically, but societally, leading to the racism that Black people face to this day

Lack Of Equality

hsa55_ — 2023-11-04 03:19:27 UTC

The main issue that is faced in the modern world is that the racism caused by the slave trade has been apparent in society for so long it leads to a population that is not apparent of the discrimination they face

Importance

hsa55_ — 2023-11-04 03:22:01 UTC

The focus of the entire event is lost because of the lack of records, which would connect the people that were responsible for these actions and it also just gives numbers

Lives

hsa55_ — 2023-11-04 03:27:33 UTC

All sources of information about the slave trade only gives the numbers that are were switched between continents but forget to mention the personal impact that the humans in these situations faced with all this suffering that they went through

Morality

hsa55_ — 2023-11-04 03:30:29 UTC

The vast amount of time that it took for different nations to abolish slavery shows the amount of time it takes for human morality to defeat the strength of profits

Two Minutes

hsa55_ — 2023-11-04 03:36:36 UTC

The impact of the title shows the amount of focus being put on the topic, just two minutes, where it should actually be taken more seriously and focused upon

The America's

hsa55_ — 2023-11-04 03:41:25 UTC

The continents of the America's still suffer to this day with the discrimination caused by the mixing of different cultures and forcing people to view to Black rase as inferior to keep the slave notion going.

Dividing the Public

hsa55_ — 2023-11-04 03:43:52 UTC

One of the most common methods used by the governments that were profiting off of slavery was to place the black race as inferior compared to the rest of the races so that the public would be raised in believing that slavery was a "natural" thing that mega powers were using