Wounds and Scars
Wounds and Scars Time is supposed to heal all wounds, but it doesn’t heal the emotional and physical scars. Slavery is a system that goes back to early times. Egyptians enslaved everyone, Muslims enslaved Africans, and Europeans enslaved Indians, Whites, and Blacks. It is possible to take any chunk of time and look at how slavery evolved during that time. The most drastic change in the “system” was the evolution of the slave system in the “new” world (America). The major factors in this evolution were economics, Christianity, and race. These contributing factors allowed for the modern slave system in America to emerge. With this “new” system of slavery it allowed for America to get the labor and products to make “American capitalism possible”. The economics of the “old” and “new” systems varied almost exponentially. In the “old” system of slavery, slaves were not used to make a profitable business. Slaves in this period were more like servants, or indentured servants. In Lorenzo J. Greene’s work, The Negro in Colonial New England, he says, “until the end of the seventeenth century the records refer to the Negroes as ‘servants’ not as ‘slaves’.”# They were only used by the rich and they were used for personal use mainly.