Slavery and Equality

There has been a long history of disconnection and misunderstanding, as I would call it. This misunderstanding or even misconception is that people who are black and slaves are less. Abraham Lincoln, a man who was known for his part in freeing the slaves, even spoke of how they could not be put into society as equals. I ask you, why not? Is it because of their long history as slaves or is it because of how deep slavery and it's imposed status been hammered into the every day lives of non blacks?

Of course not all saw it as impossible to make blacks equal but for those making speeches of persuasion with their own goals in mind (for the benefit of the public or otherwise) the long term implications were menacing. Think of how the Indians were treated. They were never seen as being on the same level as white men but they just were not slave worthy. A less extreme version is women and how they are never on the same social and political status as their male counterparts. These women who are white just like them. There is a history of outcast being shown here and the history continues as people are put down to a lower level and often treated as less than the human being that they were born as and always will be.