The U.S soil home of the free home of opportunities and the home where all men were created equal right? In retrospect, when the country first came about Englishmen evaded a land already claimed and ended up removing Africans from their homeland to make slavemen all for the love of money. Many years ago when slavery came about they held millions of Africans enslaved all for the love money it's the same with overworking people who deserves more than what they’re paid.The American society is one of money hungry businessmen who puts money over Americans’ well being. Foreigners might perceive America as the promised land where opportunities lie, while that can be true, history shows countless acts of how this society puts hardships on many people's …show more content…
However, in early 1700s, Americans born slaves were denied of the unalienable rights an ordinary American should have. Benjamin Banneker´s excerpt against slavery says ¨you need to be found guilty of the most criminal act that you professedly detested in other¨ (Banneker) to emphasize that Jefferson is going against his own words written in the constitution with the use of slavery. If slave owners were to “put their souls in the souls of slave workers, thus shall your hearts be enlarged with kindness and benevolence towards them.¨(Banneker) He uses this generalization to show how easy it is for one to see no fault in slavery without actually witnessing how tormenting it is for the slave …show more content…
On numerous accounts this country has had the value of human life decimated by the love of money. Slavery was one of the starts when having blacks work day and night while being held captive just to produce goods that brought wealth to families names. Centuries later this country had little girls work in huge textile mills for the high demands of cotton, silk, and wool to be sold to companies and in foreign affairs. Lastly decades later after this country began recovering from the economic distress of the 1960s, steel companies began to raise their prices without realizing how it would affect the country as a whole. Because steel companies were so driven by money, they didn’t take in account how detrimental this would be to the lives of families, elders, farmers, businessmen, etc. Looking from the outer glass will leave you not knowing the internal affairs within the borders of money hungry