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This 4 page paper discusses the far reaching effects of slavery on religion and religion on slavery in the United States of America. The methods adopted to control salves and their resistance is also consdered. The bibliography lists 6 sources.
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in a variety of forms, placing or removing individuals with their consent, or in some cases without or with complete disregard to consent.
In the twentieth century this does not normally occur without consent, and where it does it is for safety or humanitarian reasons, such as evacuating people from a war
zone, or their removal from a different dangerous position. The practise was more prevalent in the past with slavery. This involved the forcible removal of individuals from their native
lands, shipping them to foreign lands where they could not speak the language or understand the customs, also many slaves would not survive the journeys.
The changes have numerous effects on those already resident, and on those who enter the new country (not to mention those left behind). Political and social impacts
cannot be avoided, and the United States is still suffering the results of a policy that was abolished many years ago. Arguably, one of the greatest impacts to an individual
would be that of religion, a very personal issue that is a matter touching on the soul. If we look at America before the immigration then the majority religion
would have been that of the native Americans, an earth based religion, centring on seeing the Earth as a whole and human kind only a very small part of it.
When Columbus discovered America this changed, the influx of the new immigrants soon drove the natives back, with little or no regard fore their customs, and became the majority of
the population. It can be argued that when the slaves arrive in the United States the new population had learned nothing from their brutal history, and treated the new slaves
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