Réponse :
Bonjour, j'espère pouvoir t'aider avec ces quelques idées bonne journée et bon courage a toi
Explications :
slavery was wrong and unfair immoral
It’s… complicated. Several different arrangements have been called “slavery” throughout history. Some of them are quite different from each other — for example, in Ancient Greece, it was considered shameful for a free person to work for another free person, so many jobs involved “selling yourself into slavery” to someone. Some of those “slaves” retained freedom of movement, lived away from their “masters”, and held positions of responsibility over many others, such as managing a business. They hired other workers, fired them, and so forth.
That sort of “slavery” is in many ways more like a long-term work contract for a fixed period, with an option to buy out of the contract early.
On the other side, you have American racially-based slavery, where people were treated as subhuman and considered to have no rights at all. While Greek slaves were often highly educated, serving as tutors, engineers, and so forth, American slaves were mainly denied any education at all. It’s this sort of slavery that Frederick Douglass experienced, causing him to write that “There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.”
Other than the name, these are two very different things. I abhor the second absolutely: to consider someone to have no rights simply because of their ancestry is vile. The first seems like a very odd cultural phenomenon to me, having grown up in a world where working for others is considered a perfectly ordinary thing for a free person to do. It was, of course, subject to abuses, but many other societies have had similar or worse labor practices while calling those who were subjected to them “free” (such as “company towns” and “company scrip”, and the treatment of laborers in colonial states).
When it comes to history, I try to pay attention to the practices rather than the name that English historians chose to call them by.
