Mohammad Rayyan
April 1, 2015
SLAVERY-
A CALL TO MISBEHAVIOR OR TO ECONOMIC PROFITS?
The Debate on whether
slavery was actually intended towards
making high economic profits, for the
masters and the colonies; or simply towards
enlarging social-inequalities by misconduct and
misbehavior for the “lesser” humans is
a heated one. It is not difficult to
imagine what the world would have
been like for the slaves. It was
probably as if the pastel of dream sequences was spun around the sturdy
grey of everyday lives, and hung out to dry!
Given the discriminatory mindsets of that time,
it does not come as a surprise that,
often, even the courts ruled in favor
of the masters, rather than the
slaves, and upheld the principle of
racial distinctions. For example, In 1759, the
parliament of Paris, France, ruled on
the case of ‘Francisque’, supporting the ‘Freedom
Principle’, while lending credibility to
the notion of the racial inferiority
of the blacks [1].
