Here we take another look at Mencius's discussion of human nature in association with his definition of ren/jen, and get at a better understanding of the Mencian approach to the human being. 1. Ren/jen (human heartedness/humaneness) as innate human nature
Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel slavery that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries after it gained independence and before the end of the American Civil War.
Slavery is Americaâs original sin. Despite the bold commitment to equality in the Declaration of Independence, slavery was legal in all of the thirteen colonies in 1776. By the start of the Civil War, four million people, nearly all of African descent, were held as slaves in 15 southern and border states.