Understanding Evil: American Slavery, the Holocaust, and the Conquest of the American Indians  

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Sterba, James P.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 106 no. 2 (Jan. 1996), page 424-448.
Topik: Amerika; Indian; Holocaust

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In Vessel of Evil: American Slavery and the Holocaust, Laurence Mordekhai Thomas seeks to increase our understanding of evil by discussing differences between American slavery and the Holocaust. He notes that the Holocaust, particulary the mudering of the Jews in the camps, was shrouded in secrecy, whereas American slavery was public instution such that people could easily find out how American slaves were treated (p.7). He notes that in the South, no one was required to do so, especially in the North. By contrast, the Holocaust was mandated by law and all those under the Third Reich who were called upon were required to assist in uts fulfillment (p.7). Thomas particularity wants to show that a comparison of American slavery with the holocaust can and should be made without concluding that one of these evils ws worse than the other. For example, while about six million Jews lost their lives in the Holocaust, Thomas notes that most likely more than that number of blacks lost their lives during the voyage from Africa to America (p.9). (The usual estimates are between forty and sixty million.) Nevertheless, Thomas argues that this difference does not show that American slavery was a worse evil than holocaust because the number of deaths is only one dimension of evil.

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