Slavery Slavery And Injustice In America As Portrayed In Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years A Slave

14 There are several ways to acquire slaves. First is war. It is the main source of supply, and wars are frequent and brutal in early civilizations. When a town falls to a hostile army, it is normal to take into slavery those inhabitants who will make useful workers and to kill the rest. Second way is the pirates who offer their captives for sale. Third way is a criminal who is sentenced to slavery. Fourth way is the people who can not pay their debt. It can bring the end of the liberty. Fifth way is the impoverished sell their own children. Sixth way is the children of slaves are themselves slaves. Retrieved from http:www.historyworld.netwrldhisPlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=cioixzz3 UYbuBDHe16 March 2015, 9.02 PM Slavery happenedsincemany centuries ago in many countries: Sumer, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Ancient India, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, the IslamicCaliphate, the Hebrew kingdoms in Palestine, and the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas retrieved from http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiSlavery on Monday 19 Jan 9:45 am. Slavery still exists until now, even thought it is not exposed or hidden in many countries, many regions, and many workplaces or factories. As reported in 2013, there was a criminal case related to slavery in Tangerang, Indonesia. People who were employed as laborer in an iron wok factory should faced slavery: they were promised Rp.700.000 wages per month and got facility. On the contrary, workedfromsix in the morninguntiltwelve oclockandjustgotbreakfastandlunch. Iftheworkerdid notcomply withwhat was ordered, thenthe workerswould belocked upinastorehousenext door to thefactory. Iftheycomplained about their misery, they would also getbeaten. The boss slapped and threatened the workers if they tried to 15 escape, they would be shot and thrown into the sea retrieved from http:dwikacahayu.blogspot.com201411etika-bisnis.html on Monday 19 Jan 2015 9:40 am.

2.5 Injustice

Injustice is a quality relating to unfairness or undeserved outcomes. The sense of injustice is a universal human feature, though the exact circumstances considered unjust can vary from culture to culture. While even acts of nature can sometimes arouse the sense of injustice, the sense is usually felt in relation to human action such as misuse, abuse, neglect, or malfeasance that is uncorrected or else sanctioned by a legal system or fellow human beings. There are so many various definition of injustice. Barry S Levy and Victor W Sidel in their book Social Injustice and Public Health 2013 give explanation about the relationship of social injustice to many aspects of public health. According to Levy 2013, social injustice creates conditions that adversely affect the health of individuals and communities. It denies individuals and groups equal opportunity to meet their basic human needs. It violates fundamental human rights. It is defined as the denial or violation of economic, sociocultural, political, civil, or human rights of specific populations or groups in the society based on the perception of their inferiority by those with more power or influence. The roots of social injustice are: poverty and the increasing gap between the rich and the poor; maldistribution of resources within the society; racism and other forms of discrimination; weak laws or weak enforcement of laws protecting human rights and other rights; and disenfranchisement of individuals and groups from the political process. 16 Roy Lavon Brooks in his book When Sorry Isn’t Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice 1999 gives a definition of