History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. ~Dexter Perkins
What are your feelings about Zinn's argument as to why slavery started? Do you think it started due to 'natural' instincts? If not, what reasoning do you have for the start of slavery? Many people think that we have eliminated slavery after the passing of the 13th amendment. Do you think this is true? If not, in what forms is slavery still present today
I think zinn was on the right track with how slavery was formed. yes i think it started due to natural instinct because normally the weak are over powered by the stronger. no i do not think its true because in Africa today people are still sold kind of to mine gems and also debt is like a type of slavery and contracts.
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Katie
8/28/2014 07:29:59 am
I agree with your statement but i think there was more to the start of slavery than just natural instincts.
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Alexis
9/18/2014 07:55:07 am
I agree with Jordan because it is natural instinct for the weak to be over powered by the strong. And i also agree with Katie, slavery wasn't only started on instincts.
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donmonique f
8/24/2014 01:18:05 am
I feel that he was right about how slavery started. Yes I believe it's due to natural instincts. No slavery is far from elimination. Slaves are still being sold and traded, blacks still work in fields for whites, drive them placrs, in house slaves, etc.
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Yasmeen
8/24/2014 09:00:07 am
I agree with Donmonique because slaves do very much still exist. Especially in Africa that's where it all started. Africans are still being sold , still working for whites , and even taking care of families.
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Jordan K
8/28/2014 10:56:06 am
i Agree with Donmonique because people are still being sold in this world whether we know it or not
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donmonique f
8/24/2014 01:20:15 am
I agree with Jordan k , when he said the weak is usually over powered by the stronger because that's how it was during that time period and that's how it still is in modern day.
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Devante d
8/24/2014 07:55:38 am
I feel that he was right about how slavery started. Yes I believe it's due to natural instincts normally cause the strong always prey on the weak. No slavery is not over. Slaves are still being sold and traded.
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Yasmeen
8/24/2014 08:56:17 am
I agree with Devante because he is right about the strong preys on the weak. There was nothing slaves could really do about their situation or defend themselves without being beaten or killed
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Vada
8/25/2014 01:20:29 am
I agree with Devante because he's right about saying how slavery is not done and how natural instincts started slavery by preying on the poor ones.
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Taylor L.
8/28/2014 07:08:48 am
I agree with Devante, slaves absolutely still exist.
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Devante d
8/24/2014 08:00:38 am
I agree with donmonique f, when she said how slaves are still beening traded and sold.
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Yasmeen
8/24/2014 08:51:21 am
I think that slavery did start due to natural instinct. There were so many plantations that needed to be worked and blacks , Indians , and Europeans were known to be hard workers. It just came naturally that people should be slaved so that things would be done. In the beginning when slaves started to refuse their enslavement that's when things started to be more enforced and they had no choice. Also when rules were being enforced the slave population grew.
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Anderson W
8/25/2014 09:21:02 am
I agree with yasmeen.It says that the africans were bigger stronger and they were immune to alot of diseases that the indians could not fight off this made them more reliable and cost efficant.
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Taylor L.
8/28/2014 07:14:09 am
I agree with Yasmeen, slaves had no choice but to be slaves. People back then probably did think they needed to enslave people to get things done.
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Katie
8/28/2014 07:38:00 am
I partially agree. I don't think your reasoning is quite accurate though. Indians weren't enslaved because they out numbered the Europeans. The only Europeans that were anything near enslaved were the indentured servants. and the Africans were forced over here, they were enslaved before they even got to America. It wasn't really that it came naturally because work needed to be done but more of because of the profit.
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Abbie
8/31/2014 07:46:03 am
I agree with Yasmeen, although most of the African slaves started off enslaved while in Africa, they only refused after they found out the harsh treatments.
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Yasmeen
8/24/2014 08:54:22 am
Yes , I think that slavery still exist in the present days. I believe this because racism still exist and people in Africa are still being sold and beaten. They are still being forced to work in the fields and do for others.
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Vada
8/25/2014 01:22:44 am
I agree with Yasmeen because she's right about how slavery was started by using blacks to get more things done and how Africans are still being beaten and sold in Africa.
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Vada
8/25/2014 01:18:26 am
Slavery started by Europeans capturing Africans and putting them into cages to be picked and sold. I believe slavery started with natural instincts because other people viewed other Africans being captured and they knew eventually that was going to happen to them. I think slavery is present today because in African other Africans and other countries are still be treated as slaves and how they're working to earn their living
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Ivey K
8/25/2014 03:13:13 am
I agree with Vada because that's basically how they captured the Africans and torturing them and also how slaves are begin treated today
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Alexis
9/18/2014 07:59:25 am
I disagree with Vada, yes it was partially instinct to start slavery but it wasn't just instinct and I don't believe that they knew it was going to happen to them and when they saw it happening i doubt they were okay with it and just said i figured this was going to happen to us. I do agree that slavery is still around today but not necessarily as bad as it was during this time.
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Ivey K
8/25/2014 03:09:47 am
Slavery had started in Europe, but some people think it stared in Virginia, they were listed as servants they were also treated differently than other people, some had made a trade with the slaves, I believed slavery started when the Whites, or Indians met the Slaves they think they were nothing, they think that they were dumb, and weak and they could be nothing in their lives
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Ivey K
8/25/2014 03:11:31 am
Yes, I believed that's how slavery had started because as longest this is how the Africans be treated slavery will never be over
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Donald
8/25/2014 07:20:59 am
I agree with Ivey because slavery did start in Europe. Also because the whites believed that the African Americans were dumb, stupid and weak.
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Jordan R
8/26/2014 06:27:53 am
I agree with ivey europeans saw slaves as a means to wealth and labor and did not think slaves as equal but lower unintelligent people of different color
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Donald
8/25/2014 07:19:05 am
I believe he was right how slavery had started. Because slavery is still going on at this second in homes, and they are being sold to the whites and beaten if they refused to do their jobs.
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Anderson W
8/25/2014 09:13:32 am
I do agree with Zinn, the strong do overpower the weak.I disagree that it has been eliminated because working hard and being payed crappy wages can be considered slavery. There is type of crime called human trafficing. They say that its over but its not until people are not cheated out of what they earn its still here in some form or fashion. But, who sets the tone at such a rate that they have the authority to say this is what you earned?
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courtland c
8/28/2014 12:38:40 am
I agree whith Anderson, sex traficing is another crime that is alive and well in todays world. And the way slaves were treated in the 1800s, wern't very diffrent from the way young girls caught up in this horrible crime are treated every day.
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Jordan R
8/26/2014 06:21:16 am
Zinn was right about Slavery. Just like story about the frog and scorpion when the when scorpion ask the frog to help him on the other side of pound then as they Went the scorpion stab the frog halfway across when the frog as why the scorpion replied its my nature.Same thing with humans they overpower one another if they see that one weak. We did eliminate slavery we didn't even eliminate racism human trafficking still hapens today.
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courtland c
8/28/2014 12:31:26 am
I believe Zinn's idea about how slavery started was correcrt. When people have the power to take advantage of others, there's no way they'll pass up the oppertunity.
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Taylor L.
8/28/2014 07:07:23 am
I think it is a natural instinct to overpower someone who is weak. And of course we haven't eliminated slavery after the 13th amendment, just because you don't see it every day doesn't mean it doesn't still go on.
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Katie
8/28/2014 07:26:03 am
I very much agree with Zinn's argument as to how slavery happened.
I think that natural instincts were apart of the many reasons slavery started. I think the 13th amendment only stopped certain types of slavery. There is still sex trafficking and forced labor which are types of slavery.
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Abbie
8/31/2014 07:41:48 am
I feel Zinn explained how slavery started well. Humans use their natural instincts such as "Survival of the Fittest", which is why English chose the Africans over Indians. Slavery will still continue no matter what laws we pass. Slaves are still used in Africa for the production of cocoa today.
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Alexis
9/18/2014 08:01:58 am
Slavery started off as a terrible instinctual thing, which lead to complete overall take over and it went from instinct to wants. I believe that slavery is still around today because of all the poverty and the crimes, girls are being sold and children being sold as slaves to other people in our country and to other countries. which is really sad if you ask me.