How Far Did They Go With These Outrageous Laws
1. How do experts define slavery?
According to Kevin Bales, slavery is “the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised”. “History on the net” describes a slave as “someone who is owned by another person”. In addition, they state that when one thinks of slavery today, he or she thinks of the black Africans who were apprehended, sold into slavery and taken to the Americas to work on the plantations there.
2. How do you define it and explain it?
According to the Merriam Webster, a slave is a person who is the legal property of another and is compelled to do whatever he or she is told. Slavery is legally owning another human being. A slave is entitled to work for dozens …show more content…
These laws stated many hurtful and biased things like blacks were not allowed to kiss in public because it “offended” whites or that blacks and whites couldn’t eat together. These so called “laws” affected the blacks in everyday things.
3. How far did they go with these outrageous laws?
These laws just got out-of-hand. They were limiting blacks just because they felt superior. These laws literally impacted everything from a black cannot drink in a white bar to a black cannot drink from a white water fountain. In addition, if they caught someone breaking the law, that man or woman was risking his or her job, home, and even life. It was like whites would come up with something that did not really matter and set a law just to feel superior.
4. Did Congress issue new laws to stop it?
Congress did not issue new laws to stop the Jim Crow ones. As a matter of fact, after the Plessy vs. Ferguson case in 1896, the Supreme Court legalized the Jim Crow laws and its way of life. Isn’t the Supreme Court supposed to be equal to all? Maybe they just wanted to enforce something that the majority wanted just so they can keep on with their …show more content…
There are 535 members of Congress, how could it be possible that they had to apologize because their 535 members were not thinking correctly. One can see that because blacks were not allowed to be a part of Congress, it also meant nobody would stand up for them.
III. Exercise Three
1. What other types of slavery exist?
Today, there still exist several types of slavery. One type of slavery that exists is children and adults forced into agriculture, domestic work, and factories. Others are women to prostitution and early and forced marriages. One type of slavery that is very common, yet not considered slavery is bonded labour. Bonded labour is when one owes another a repayment for a loan. That person is forced to work for very little or no pay.
2. Are we all scapegoats of the law?
One can consider him or her as a scapegoat of the law. A scapegoat is blamed for the wrongdoings of others. Most people believe laws have been set based on the faults of others and yet it still affects them. The law is meant to bring justice to all, but it is only bringing justice to the one’s who broke it. The rest have their lives influenced by the idiotic things other
According to Kevin Bales, slavery is “the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised”. “History on the net” describes a slave as “someone who is owned by another person”. In addition, they state that when one thinks of slavery today, he or she thinks of the black Africans who were apprehended, sold into slavery and taken to the Americas to work on the plantations there.
2. How do you define it and explain it?
According to the Merriam Webster, a slave is a person who is the legal property of another and is compelled to do whatever he or she is told. Slavery is legally owning another human being. A slave is entitled to work for dozens …show more content…
These laws stated many hurtful and biased things like blacks were not allowed to kiss in public because it “offended” whites or that blacks and whites couldn’t eat together. These so called “laws” affected the blacks in everyday things.
3. How far did they go with these outrageous laws?
These laws just got out-of-hand. They were limiting blacks just because they felt superior. These laws literally impacted everything from a black cannot drink in a white bar to a black cannot drink from a white water fountain. In addition, if they caught someone breaking the law, that man or woman was risking his or her job, home, and even life. It was like whites would come up with something that did not really matter and set a law just to feel superior.
4. Did Congress issue new laws to stop it?
Congress did not issue new laws to stop the Jim Crow ones. As a matter of fact, after the Plessy vs. Ferguson case in 1896, the Supreme Court legalized the Jim Crow laws and its way of life. Isn’t the Supreme Court supposed to be equal to all? Maybe they just wanted to enforce something that the majority wanted just so they can keep on with their …show more content…
There are 535 members of Congress, how could it be possible that they had to apologize because their 535 members were not thinking correctly. One can see that because blacks were not allowed to be a part of Congress, it also meant nobody would stand up for them.
III. Exercise Three
1. What other types of slavery exist?
Today, there still exist several types of slavery. One type of slavery that exists is children and adults forced into agriculture, domestic work, and factories. Others are women to prostitution and early and forced marriages. One type of slavery that is very common, yet not considered slavery is bonded labour. Bonded labour is when one owes another a repayment for a loan. That person is forced to work for very little or no pay.
2. Are we all scapegoats of the law?
One can consider him or her as a scapegoat of the law. A scapegoat is blamed for the wrongdoings of others. Most people believe laws have been set based on the faults of others and yet it still affects them. The law is meant to bring justice to all, but it is only bringing justice to the one’s who broke it. The rest have their lives influenced by the idiotic things other