"# Although racial thought according to Ruchames could be explained as modern racism between the races as it was, only decades ago. Even modern day author Audrey Smedley points out that, "it is not without significance that many contemporary scholars have concluded that race is a relatively recent concept in human history" (Smedley 1999, 16). Dante Puzzo (1964) also contributed to the argument by stating that "Racism is a modern conception, for prior to the XVIth [16th] century there was virtually nothing in the life and thought of the west that can be described as racist" (579) (Smedley 1...
The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1963 by Abraham Lincoln. Many enslaved Americans were thought to be freed. slavery still exist today all over the world. This form of modern day slavery is called human trafficking. The United Nations defines human trafficking as "The recruitment, transpor...