Why 1800s Slavery was wrong Practice Analysis

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Slavery is one of the unprecedented transgressions against the tenet of human rights, values, and principles. This paper demonstrates that slavery is historically an infringement of human values, rights and it serves to degrade, exploit, discriminate, and destroy cultural heritage and family structure. 1800s slavery heralded racial inequality, leading to slavery’s established relationship with poverty, discrimination, oppression, and inferiority. Slavery had a far-reaching implication on humanity involving torture, increase psychosocial disturbance, degradation of tents of human dignity, and infringement of human rights as espoused in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights explicitly forbids slavery and many of the practices associated with slavery. Slavery left a trail of long-term effects, including sustained economic, political, and social inequalities and inequalities.
What is slavery? Slavery is historically an economic activity revolving around ownership, buying, and selling people for forced and unpaid labor. Many reasons make this practice wrong. Slavery is considered an unethical phenomenon. Slavery was entirely wrong, and many people would agree that it was a morally wrong practice. Slavery is an unpalatable idea globally. It has received intense condemnations from historical and global opinion leaders. As espoused in the Notes of State of Virginia, Jefferson describes slavery as an ”anti-republican, culturally corrupting institution, that encouraged unremitting despotism, degrading submissions, and perpetual exercises of most boisterous passions” (Van Cleve, George William, PP.1). This quote depicts how inhuman the phenomenon of slavery was. Equally, during Missouri congressional talks in 1820, Senator Jonathan Roberts representing the state of Pennsylvania asked his colleagues to protect Missouri from becoming a slavery state, where he cautioned that adoption of slavery in Missouri would undermine the aspirations of Revolution espoused in the Declaration of Independence (Van Cleve, George William, and PP.1). Despite such opposition against slavery, state slave representatives remained obdurate on the issue of slavery. There was a fierce fight against slavery. The American Revolution was a hallmark of the historic anti-slavery movement guided by ideas. American Revolution was inspired by principles and values such as the desire for liberty, freedom, equality, and national rule.
Slavery started as early as the 1600 century, where it was introduced in North America and escalated throughout the following centuries Bertocchi, (Graziella &Dimico, pp. 197). In the 17th and 18th centuries, people were kidnapped from Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies to work as indentured servants and labor in the production of crops such as tobacco and cotton. Just before the 1800s, Great Britain seemed to have ceded control of Mainland American colonies, and this marked a period of rising wealthy personalities who use slaves as a source of labor. At the same time, there was increasing controversy regarding the issue of slavery. During the Middle Passage, about 645,000 slaves, mainly from Africa, w...