Some of the most significant events in history have left their imprint. In the past, there were numerous activities occurring at any particular moment. While some events altered more quickly than others, others remained fairly constant. For instance, many aspects of human existence underwent significant change in Canada in the decades after 1910, but there were few changes noted in terms of governmental structures. One would be thinking of the past as a list of events if they claimed that nothing occurred in 1911. One of the essentiality of change and continuity is looking for the changes where there have been no suggestions, and no one is looking for the continuity where it is assumed to be so. Judgements of change and continuity can be created by comparison between some point in the present and the past. The changes and continuity are evaluated using ideas of decline and progress. This paper aims to discuss the similarities and changes in the race which occurred during antislavery and the industrial revolution.
Sources
The study aims to utilize two scholarly articles. The first journal article that will be used is Anna Bezanson (1992). The Early Use of the Term Industrial Revolution. The article was published by Oxford University Press. The books contribute major points in political revolutions, the industrial revolution, sugar industry, manufacturing industries, paper industries and even in commerce. James Oakes, The Real Problem with White Abolitionists, discusses the racial differences between the blacks and whites during the anti-slavery period.
Introduction
There are extensive educations gaps on the views of racial discrimination, and therefore a majority of the country needs to continue making changes in favor of racial equality. Soon after the Europeans begun settling in America, they imported sales from the African countries to work for them in over the 300 years, during the industrial revolution, several enslaved individuals were transported from the African countries to the countries that required high labor due to the growing plantation. The campaign of abolishing slavery was initiated in the 1760s with the support of both the white and black abolitionists. The battle went for a long period with some campaigners that the trade that facilitated slavery was important for the countries such as Britain.
Thesis statement
The paper aims to discuss the similarities and changes in the race during the anti-slavery and the industrial revolution. The study will explore two articles that focus on industrial revolution and anti-slavery to identify the differences the similarities and changes in the continuity of race between these different events.
Methodology
The article by Anna Bezanson discusses the early use of industrial revolution and much attention to the political revolutions. The other article that will be utilized in the study is James Oakes, The Real Problem with White Abolitionists where it is reflected that the antislavery project was unable to think beyond the market. The article talks about the fight of slavery by both the black and white abolitionists.
Evidence
The abolitionists have nothing left to say for us. The question is whether the antislavery movement left any lasting legacy such as any precepts and precedents to shed light on the creeping barbarism of the neoliberal era (The National Archives, 2008s). The revolutionaries simply show something about the structure of inequality of various races. When a revolution is failing, it is also too tempting to b against the revolution.
The historians who are writing about civil war are sometimes against it since they are horrified by the brutal realities of the black lives in the new areas. Historians belonging to the left shifted by saying that some things that were for a long time belonged to the white southerners. The historians with specialization in Civil Wars put all the blames to the antislavery leaders and politicians or the white abolitionists who guided the people against slavery (James, 2014).
The historians did not like the white abolitionists since they were blinded by the infectious racism that all are succumbing the whites were succumbing to in the mid 19th century and therefore led to construction to failure. The radical historians were limited from their role of passing consensus history to routinely invoke the white racism and all the vents that had gone wrong in America. But during the mid 19th century, there lacked consensus among the Americans. The conservatives were therefore forced to denounce Abraham Lincoln, and he was referred to as black republican. For the opponents of slavery, Lincoln made a firm stand that the fundamental right of human equality applied both to the whites and blacks in the same manner and both were entitled equal fruits of their labor.
The counterrevolutionary thrust of several recent scholarships is traced to the roots of failure of civil rights movement in bringing a just and an equitable society (Anna, 1992). The greatest achievements from the 1960s to the 1970s include formal legal equality, improved voting rights, and political diversity. The persistence of the white racism is a major concern to both the civil rights war and the civil rights movement.
References
Anna Bezanson (1992). The Early Use of the Term Industrial Revolution. The article
was published by Oxford University Press.
James Oakes. (2014) The Real Problem with White Abolitionists
The National Archives. (2008). How did the Abolition Acts of 1807 and 1833affect the
slave trade?
