Cycle Of Fear In Slavery

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The time period of the institution slavery in America is one of America’s terrible time periods. Fear is a large factor in why slavery was able to exist, not only was there fear coming from the slaves but there was also fear from the slave owners. Punishments were the result of the fear produced by the slave owners, in order to produce fear in the slaves. This cycle of fear, leading to punishment, leading to fear is what kept the slavery system going. Both the slaves and the owners had multiple reasons to have be scared of one another. Therefore, for the whites to reduce their distress they used punishments of different kinds to transfer the dread to the slaves. Many people act out of fear, an example is the Germans during World War ll, whether

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