A topic is anything you want about “pro cons of slavery”.<\/p>\n
Format for Writing the First Term Paper on Divergent Views.
\nDIVERGENT VIEWS: POC Points of Creation versus POD Points of Destruction
\nThis essay should show three views plus your personal reaction to a given topic:
\n1) THESIS STATEMENT (historical statements and records of events) 2) ANTITHESIS
\nSTATEMENT (the opposite of #1 also using historical statements and records of
\nevents)
\n3) SYNTHESIS, practical, humanistic, predictions, documents, personal statement with
\nperhaps personal experience.
\nThe model for this type of essay is from a book that was presented the first day of class,
\nexamining its table of contents and the essays that were on a variety of views and
\nopposing views throughout history. The paperback was entitled, African Americans:
\nOpposing Viewpoints, William Dudley, Editor, Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1997, San Diego,
\nCalifornia, ISBN1-5651.0-521-4. “Those who do not know their opponent’s argument do
\nnot completely understand their own views.” Some of the essays in this book are
\n“Blacks are Inferior to Whites” by Thomas Jefferson and opposing that is “Blacks are not
\nInferior to Whites” by Benjamin Banneker; “Slavery Must Be Abolished in America” by
\nNathaniel Paul, and opposing that is “Slavery Must Not Be Abolished in America” by
\nJohn C. Calhoun and William Harper; “Blacks Should Emigrate from the United States”
\nby Martin R. Delany, and opposing that is “Blacks Should Not Emigrate from the United
\nStates” by Frederick Douglass; “The Freedman’s Bureau is Harmful” by James D. B. De
\nBow, and opposing that “The Freedman’s Bureau is Essential” by Thomas Conway; “A
\nFederal Civil Rights Bill is Dangerous” by Robert B. Vance, and opposing that is the
\nessay, “A Federal Civil Rights Bill is Necessary” by Richard H. Cain; “The Fundamental
\nCause of Lynching Is Black Crime” by Thomas Nelson Page, and opposing that is the
\nessay “The Fundamental Cause of Lynching is White Crime” by Mary Church Terrell, a
\nBlack woman abolitionist.
\nExample for your essay: using the topic of 1) pro-slavery, 2) resistance to slavery, 3)
\nconstitutional solutions, and hum\u00e1nistic views, optimistic points or do you think the
\nreality is that we are all doomed in an apocalypse.
\nThesis Statement. SLAVERY IS GOOD. Slavery existed in all of the continents of the
\nworld. Chinese once enslaved Chinese. Europeans once enslaved Europeans thus the
\nword Slave within the name Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia. Africans enslaved
\nAfricans. Nearly all peoples Christian and Islanm and others were guilty in some way
\neither directly or indirectly aiding the process and initiating contracts called asiento. In
\nthe Bible Joseph was thrown into slavery by his own brothers. Bishop of the Catholic
\nChurch Bartolomeu de las Casas (see textbook) sanctioned slavery justifying that
\nBlacks had no souls worthy of saving the same was said of Native Americans. Greeks
\nand Romans sanctioned it. Arabs enslaved Blacks by the masses. Many countries in
\nEurope sanctioned and participated in it fighting each other with weapons, canons, to
\ncontrol the trade. They claimed that African were better built for slavery more so than
\nany other race because they were stronger and that the dark melanin in the skin and
\nwooly hair made them better able to endure the heat of the field, the phenotype gave
\nthem greater resilience for labor. God ordained whites to tower over others. They
\nJustified that slavery was a God given system to clear the American wilderness for
\ncolonial settlement and to acquire more land. Never mind the fact that 100 million were
\ncaptive and large numbers died It was a means of production that solved the lack in
\nEurope people and resource poor. Enormous profits in the global system network
\nbought on the Industrial Revolution and the Renaissance. Vast profits from free labor
\nbuilt America to the point that great amounts of raw goods was sent to Europe. (see the
\nTriangular Trade). List the 10 Presidents of the United States who themselves owned
\nslaves. President Thomas Jefferson has two different views pro and con. His statements
\nin favor of slavery are in his writings entitled, Notes on Virginia. Barnes and Noble
\npublish a significant book entitled, Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in
\nAmerica 1701-1840, University of Georgia Press, Athens and London, 1987, author
\nLarry E. Tise ISBN 0-8203-0927-3. The 501 pages includes speeches, sermons, and
\ndocuments defending slavery.
\nAntithesis Statement.SLAVERY IS NOT GOOD. Although slavery existed in all of the
\ncontinent it is basically a denial of human rights. There were various types of slavery
\nfrom indentured servitude, to abuse of apprenticeship, or the acculturation an
\nattachment of the lesser to a greater i.e. war captive or bush dweller acquiring the ways
\nof an urbanite or one considered more civilized. The worst type of all enslavement was
\nin America and called chattel slavery because it aimed to reduce a human being into a
\nbeast of burden, to break the spirit and soul from natural true instincts to that of a lowly
\ncreature. Rape, torture, brutality wrong can never be condoned and justified as right.
\nTorture instruments are well recorded and so are abominable means. Systems of
\nstacking humans on slave ships as if livestock are recorded. Disease, the breaking of
\ncultural taboo such things were so unbearable that suicide was preferred. Some
\nmethods for breaking healthy African cultural family ties, language communication,
\nnation building patterns that aesthetics had included traditional rites-of-passage and
\nsecret society mastery of the mind, soul and body. In class we studied writings that told
\nof evil methods to destroy the mental and emotional acumen of a holy people. You can
\nsite these details, quotes from the 1712 Willie Lynch document studied in class (and\/or
\nJules Renkins 1888 Governor of Belgian). The psychologist who presented Willie Lynch
\nrelated his technigque to modern day problem and the need for psychoanalysis. The
\neffects of slavery still remain today and are in the areas we call Post-Slavery-Trauma-
\nSyndrome. Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch: The science of slave psychology a
\npsychic examination of slavery’s haunting effects on the conscious of Black men and
\nwomen, author Alvin Morrow, Rising Sun Publications, 2004, ISBN 0-9720352-1-4,
\nModern day slavery is in the form of what we call trafficking of humans, kidnapping for
\nprostitution and other evils. There is International Slavery. You can write about the anti-
\nslavery society, the abolitionists many of them mentioned in the textbook. You can quote
\nfrom the speeches of Frederick Douglass given out in class or David Walker’s book
\nentitled, The Appeal. You can consult our textbook and research the life of Harriet
\nTubman and describe the Underground Railroad. To battle against and runaway form an
\nevil system all of these facts support the argument that slavery is not good. Evil means
\ndo not lead to good but corrupt all those involved, master and enslaved prisoner.
\nYou can write about the run-a-way communities, Maroons, Combes, Palinques, Seminoles
\nsome of them were multi-cultural. Resistance took place on all of the continents
\nEuropeans fought battles with other Europeans to control the system in the way that we
\nengage drug battle. In a world of terrorists and extreme amounts spent of warfare a mad
\nrace to control the world its goods, people and resources we asks, Who is controlling
\nthe world? Who will incarcerate who, why, and when. Black people as a race is no
\nlonger condemned as a lower species as was done by Nazi Germany for the cause of
\nsupremacy. There is ample proof of the intellectual achievements
\ncreative ability
\nfrom the beginning of time until today. Human kind began in Africa. You can write about
\nDr. Spencer Wells and his DNA studies to prove this, or the finds of Dr Richard Leakey
\nin anthropology; Dr. Richard Greenburg in linguistic studies; Dr Cheikh Anta Dip
\nmelanin studies and cultural diffusion. Blacks were involved in the creation of
\ncivilizations along the Nile and throughout the continent of Africa before others were
\nestablished. Blacks made significant achievements in modern science and are the true
\nbuilders of America. You can use the classic book, How Europe Under Developed d
\nentitled, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Dr
\nMichelle Alexander, The New Press, New York, described the prison industrial complex
\nin the U.S. as greater than anywhere else in the world, a system for privatization and
\nfinancial profit makes it the new computer age slavery.
\nSynthesis of the two position above. In a democracy\/republic, there are ways of build
\nprogress with everyone paying their fair share without the use of slavery. Quote from the
\nU.S. Constitution or Bill of Rights (you can find on the internet and in our library).We
\nare created by God (In God we Trust) with certain inalienable rights to life, liberty and
\nthe pursuit of happiness. You can write about what is the meaning of the word Freedom
\nYou can write about your person views and experiences. You can write about you multi
\ncultural experiences at School of Visual Arts or why your ancestors moved into America,
\nor from rural America to urban. You can write about the class differences in America
\nthe beauty of being wealthy or the strivings of the have not, and hard work and the
\nbeauty of overcoming the odds. You can find the speech of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
\nentitled”I Have a Dream” or any other hero with a vision of where we should be, our
\nmorals and ethics. Department of Humanities is about human relations. The United
\nNations is suppose to be about Crimes Against Humanity.<\/p>\n
book
\nAfrican American History 2nd Edition by Molefi Kete Asante
\nBreaking the Curse of Willie Lynch: The Science of Slave Psychology by Alvin Morrow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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