History Self Reflection: Analyzing Slavery's Historical Significance

This report is a self-reflection on the history of slavery, drawing from a video transcript. It analyzes three key points: slavery as a monolithic institution, its insidious nature as a foundation of culture, and its impact on African-American culture and family structures. The assignment defines slavery and discusses its various forms throughout history, examining the concept of slavery as an insidious institution. It also explores the formation of African-American religious and cultural practices in response to the institution of slavery. The report addresses uncertainties regarding the nature of slavery, referencing historical debates about its role and impact on American society. The report also includes a bibliography with sources used for the assignment.

Running Head: HISTORY SELF REFLECTION
History Self Reflection
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1. List the three most significant points raised in the video
The first most important point is slavery as a kind of monolithic institution.
The second point is insidious institution as the foundation of a culture.
The third most important culture is the African- American creating a religious culture
and family.
The topic of slavery attracted the focus of many researchers and writers. They began to
view slavery as a monolithic institution. It had much discussion of the slavery and the slaves
themselves. After the abolition of slavery, the free blacks were burdened with proving that
they were free. Both in the south and the north of America, they faced restrictions in
education and housing. They suffered from the after effects of the slave system which created
a monolithic identity of the whiteness and the blackness. The speakers in the video talk about
slavery as the notion of the slave family and slave culture. The studies demonstrating the
power of slavery are the reason behind the institutions of slavery.
2. Taking each significant point separately, discuss why it's significant. In doing this,
show us your knowledge of the video. Get down to specifics, not generalizations.
The first point is significant for the understanding of the concept of slavery. The term
“slavery “ is clearly defined as one that is required to be in the servitude to another except
certain rights. It can be argued that slavery has not been a monolithic institution but had
various forms and requirements that varied throughout the history. It is typically thought of as
one human being taking another human being as a property. The second point that is
insidious institutions as the foundation of the culture is important for getting an insight into
why slavery is called the insidious institution that is the foundation of every culture. In this
video, the speakers have seen slavery as an institution, rather an insidious institution. The

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third point is slavery causing the African-American to create a religion and culture and a
family. This point has helped to get an indication of the African- American religion as a tale
of variety and creative fusion. The enslaved Africana were transported to the New World.
The new world began in the fifteenth century which brought with them a long range of the
religious beliefs along with he practices.
3. What remains confusing or unclear? List at least two things.
At the end, the question remains unclear whether slavery is monolithic institution or an
insidious institution. There is a doubt on what type of institution slavery is at the end. In this
regard , it can be said that in the early 19th century, the proponents of slavery defended the
institution of slavery as a “ necessary evil”. The whit believed that the emancipation of the
black slaves would do more harm leading to social and economic consequences instead of
slavery. Scholars have also suggested that opposition to slavery has long effects on the
American society. There also have been comments on slavery to be a positive good leading to
civilization, progress and refinement.

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Bibliography
Dal Lago, E., 2015. American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond: The US" peculiar
Institution" in International Perspective. Routledge.
Learner.org (2019). A Bio. of America: Slavery - Transcript. [online] Learner.org.
Available at: https://www.learner.org/series/biographyofamerica/prog09/transcript/
index.html [Accessed 20 May 2019].
Parish, P.J., 2018. Slavery: history and historians. Routledge.