Throughout history, people or any race or ethnicity, have been exploited by others for personal, economic, or spiritual reasons. The most commonly known example example of this is slavery, which devastated the African continent for centuries. However, contrary to popular belief Europeans or Arabs did not start slavery; it was in fact African tribes who kidnapped members of other sides and sold them to European or Arab travelers. Whether these travelers should be help accountable to buying these slaves is a different argument, however, slavery is not the only example. Capturing other men for needs relating to labor had been around for centuries and went back to Roman times (this is an example of a norm that was common in the Roman Empire). Other times, this act is spiritual, such as the holding of Korean slaves in Imperial Japan. The most common form, …show more content…
The thirteenth amendment made all slaves free and made the act of owning or forcing people to work for no pay illegal, expect for criminals. This loophole was immediately exploited by the South states, whom economy was devastated due to the Civil War and the banning of slavery. Many people of color were exploited by this system and forced into prisons, where they would work to benefit southern economies, while earning little pay in the process. A rhetoric in the south that people of color were "soulless monsters out for the blood of civilized society" swept across the nation. Even people such as President Woodrow Wilson were impacted by this rhetoric, which influenced him to make segregation legal in the government. He has known as quoting "segregation is not a disadvantage, but a benefit." This idea allowed people of color to be oppressed by the US government and the future administrations Truman, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush (Sr. and Jr.) did not help. All in all, most issues with modern American society