Most white Americans are descended from people who immigrated here after the Civil War, so they feel no need to atone" (Time2). This author also suggests and reiterates the idea which many white Americans hold true; they are sorry for what happened, but are not going to be punished financially for something they had no control over. ... All in all, I conclude that white Americans certainly owe African Americans who were bound in slavery our deepest and most heartfelt apologies. ... But to force white Americans who have no connections to any slave owners at all to pay for what many African Am...

• Word Count: 734
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Slavery was originally adopted for economic reasons, but eventually was justified by Southern whites on the basis of race, as many white slaveholders believed that they were the superior race. ... For example, it was made a crime for a slave to insult any white, regardless of position. ... The "Old South" as the author constantly refers to it, " developed a serious positive-good proslavery argument, although hints and patches appeared everywhere that slavery existed." ... The African American and white children were especially in a position to form bonds with each other. ... African Americ...

• Word Count: 906
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

White people were the controllers of the slaves and there were hardly any white slaves. White people would treat the slaves very badly especially on the slave ship. ... Another reason for banning slaves to read or write was because it would make the white people inferior. ... Some plantation owners gave their slaves a small piece of land, a truck-patch, where they could grow vegetables. ... To grow cotton and to pick, gin (remove seeds from the white fluff) and bale took a great deal of work. ...

• Word Count: 1165
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

They rejected the assumption that slaves were generally lazy, insisting that slaves were actually thirty-four percent more efficient than white farmers were. ... Fogel and Engerman also claim that other historians incorrectly believed that "white overseer[s are] are assumed to have been an ubiquitous figure, present on virtually all plantations of one hundred or more slaves" (284). Census data shows that only thirty percent of plantations employed white overseers. ... Similar to Genovese's views, Stampp saw that "small patches which his Negroes cultivated for themselves wer...

• Word Count: 1868
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate