Both the readings of Black Reconstruction and the Racial Wage and A People’s History of the United States assert that oppression is rooted in one group of people persecuting or unjustly controlling another group of people in order to exploit wealth. The oppression of a group of people for a prolonged period of time is manifested in two methods, the first being the degrading or dehumanizing of those being oppressed and the second being that the oppressors restrict as well as infringes rigid laws on the oppressed. Both readings also reveal that those being oppressed, in some cases, are unaware of the unjust treatment that they are enduring, and they are thus unable to acknowledge that their experience is not merely a condition, but rather an …show more content…
Despite the freeing of slaves, both black and white individuals continued to be tyrannized by economic restriction. Poverty allowed the system to enslave the poor working class, which made it especially difficult for the working class to stand against the organized industry (Black Reconstruction and the Racial Wage 191.1.1.3-7). The methods in which the industry, particularly in the Northern region, consolidated its power was through tariffs, the money system, and national in place of state control of industry (Black Reconstruction and the Racial Wage 191.1.1.13-16). The reason for such drastic measure was to “organize capitalism as to bring under their control the natural resources, wealth and industry of a vast and rich country and through that, of the world”(Black Reconstruction and the Racial Wage 191.1.2.10-14). Despite what the general public thought to be true, that the era was in large due to “petty politics” and “race hate” (Black Reconstruction and the Racial Wage 191.2.1.6-12), the underlying subconscious expansion for the oppression that was taking place at the time was “a tremendous series of efforts to earn a living in new and untried ways, to achieve economic security and to restore fatal losses of capital and investment” (Black Reconstruction and the Racial Wage 191.2.1.6-12). Just as the article A People’s History of the United States the Supreme Court professed to carry an interest in bringing Republic to its people, the North and South industry are displaying an illusion to its people, condemning political and racial divergences as the issue. Whereas, in reality, the underlying issue has to do with the exploitation of goods and the accumulation of wealth. The Northern and Southern industries