In Alexis de Tocqueville’s piece on the three races of early American society he describes his view points on democracy. The buying and selling of slaves in Southern America defiantly helped with the South’s economy as it was primarily driven by slaves. The work that they did in the corn, cotton, tobacco fields were the causation’s of many southern wealth and prosperity, even to this day. Tocqueville agrees that the slaves were a necessity to the economy, but they did not offer democracy for the slaves, who did not have a say what so ever about becoming enslaved. Especially the slaves that were born on American soil, who were born directly into slavery without knowing a life of freedom.
A reason that I respect and can read with certainty that I am going to hear both side of the argument while reading Tocqueville, is because he always argues from both sides. Whether talking about democracy in America or how the colonists of America would be different if they were Europeans, instead of people seeking for religious suffrage by coming to a new land, Alexis de Tocqueville always brings up both sides of the argument and explains why he is right.
A question I had after reading this piece was: Wouldn’t it be a lot easier to control/have power over someone if you either had the same religious/economic beliefs as you? Maybe this is why the slave owners of the South completely disregarded and disproved all of the religious beliefs that their African slaves had when they came over on the boats.