Scapegoats

of others. Scapegoats have been used all over the world and at all times, especially in

the 1700’s, during slavery. For example, the Klu Klux Klan or KKK, used black people

as their scapegoats because they didn’t like how the black people were getting rights and

the Nazi’s used jews as their scapegoats because the Nazi’s weren’t the supreme power

so they blamed the jews for it. The blacks were the KKK’s blame for everything that

was related to crime, violence, or plain old disrespect. The KKK formed a few years

after the blacks got their freedom and they started using black people as their scapegoats

when black people got the same rights as white people.

The enslavement of blacks began in the 1600’s. Slavery flourished in the South,

where large plantations grew cotton, tobacco, and other crops. In order for the

plantations to thrive, many laborers were needed. By 1860, the slave states had about 4

million slaves. The slaves made up nearly 33% of the South’s population. It would be

believable that every southerner owned slave’s, but that is incorrect. Only 25% of the

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