Synthesizing Slavery in Society:
Slavery. The system of entitlement and ownership that has everlasting wounds in areas like the United States. The concept that humans constructed to build this superiority-inferiority complex to tear other human beings down that’s still happening to this day. I always try to put myself in the shoes of other African Americans, regarding the effects of slavery on them. I am African American too, but my parents came from another country, so I have the privilege of knowing my ancestral roots and not having to do DNA tests to get an idea of where I come from. Besides reading it and learning about it in school, I have always had this desire to do more research on the reason for the foundation of slavery, the effects of it, and how the concept of slavery is still heavily prevalent today in our society since it comes in many different forms.
Slavery is still a real, troubling issue that is currently going on in countries all over the world and in the United States through different forms like human trafficking, the controversial slavery concept in professional sports, and the way most of us know it from the textbooks through captivity. I’m curious to seek out more knowledge of why slavery is still going on and why it hasn’t ended. Even if I didn’t live during the time slavery was heavy and more out in the open, it still has its generational effects on me, other African Americans or black people, and on the people surrounding the system and institutions of the society we live in today.
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