... will provide the labor plantation owners needed to sustain the American economy. In essence, chattel slavery was a business. They buying and selling of humans were seen as mere transactions in the eyes of those with power. Africans were seen as sole commodities. Since slavery lasted for over two hundred years it was easy for white folk to have the misconception that they weren ... of our country still treated them as if they were, simply because they were black. America's old ideology that black people should be slaves was questioned and put on trial in the Amistad case and that's why i...

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