Journey Through Slavery Pt 3

The enlightenment let people believe that their could be progress in the world and could be improved and perfected. Towards the end of the revolution there was a contradiction due to the fact that slavery began after people thought the idea of liberty would be perfected. In order for the slaves to begin the Abolition Movement they suffered during the 19th century. I believe that Allen and the organization were a great help, which led to the movement. They helped in gathering men to attend a conference, which was due to the fact that the slaves were being oppressed.

It was unfair that the Americans were seeing the slaves as lower and they were not equal to them. However, the white men were contradicting themselves because according the constitution they believed that "all men were created equal", but they believed that it only applied to the white men.

Because there was people like Nat Turner and Richard Allen that gave hope to the slaves because they knew they still had a chance. Thomas Jefferson was one of the people who believed that the blacks and the whites could never be equal.


The cotton gin being invented only allowed for the demand of more slaves because the slave owners needed more and more slaves to work the machines. One of the consequences was that it made slavery expand westward and the whites were in more need of more slaves. In some ways it was a good thing that the nation was growing as a whole but it affected the Indians and the slaves greatly. The main effect was that it was making slavery more more of a demand than before, which is why I do not agree with the idea. By the beginning year of 1808 America could not attain any new slaves that had not been there before that year. However, it was very bad because instead of weakening the idea of slavery it only grew stronger.

PRIMARY SOURCE:
Letter from Eli Whitney to father about his invention, the Cotton Gin.
http://www.teachingushistory.org/ttrove/Whitney11Sept1793.htm