Slavery

What is slavery? How did it get so deeply rooted in America? Who would stop the spread of slavery in America? Slavery had many protestors, but one man stood out in the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign against the expansion of slavery and that man was Abraham Lincoln.
Slavery is defined as submission to a dominating influence. Which alone cannot be fully understood as the traumatic lifestyle in which a person is entrenched. To enslave someone is to take away their self worth, to strip away their identity, as they know it, and label it for economic gains. “Their labor or services are obtained through force; their physical beings are regarded as the property of another person, their owner, and they are entirely subject to their owner’s will (Nettels 98).”
The practice of slavery has been in existence since prehistoric times, although advancements in agriculture made it an institution in early historical times. Slaves were needed for “various specialized functions ...