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A 6 page essay that offer analysis and discussion of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. In the chapter entitled, "The Present and Probable Future Condition of the Three Races that Inhabit the Territory of the United States," Tocqueville describes the relations between the three, "naturally distinct" races that inhabited the US at this time (Tocqueville). These were European-descended Americans, Native Americans and African Americans, the majority of whom were held in slavery. At this time in the early nineteenth century, Tocqueville accurately perceived the racial problems that would haunt the country. Tocqueville saw no satisfactory solution to the questions of slavery, abolition and racial coexistence. Examination of Tocqueville's predictions regarding slavery shows them to be quite accurate in many ways. No additional sources cited.
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"The Present and Probable Future Condition of the Three Races that Inhabit the Territory of the United States," Tocqueville describes the relations between the three, "naturally distinct" races that inhabited
the US at this time (Tocqueville). These were European-descended Americans, Native Americans and African Americans, the majority of whom were held in slavery. At this time in the early nineteenth
century, Tocqueville accurately perceived the racial problems that would haunt the country. Tocqueville saw no satisfactory solution to the questions of slavery, abolition and racial coexistence. Examination of Tocquevilles predictions
shows them to be quite accurate in many ways. In this chapter, prior to addressing the state of Native Americans and African Americans specifically, Tocqueville contrasts the two
races as to their differences. He states that the two "unhappy races" have "nothing in common" except for their equally inferior social position, which in each case is due to
the "tyranny" imposed upon them by Anglo society (Tocqueville). While Tocqueville pictures Natives Americans as retaining a sense of their own culture and individuality, he argues that the Negro has
been robbed by oppression of "almost all the privileges of humanity" (Tocqueville). While his analysis of the general state of slaves is highly accurate, Tocqueville accepts that the passive air
of servitude that slaves adopted as indicative of their true feelings, rather than as a behavior adopted for self-protection. He says that the slave "admires his tyrants more than he
hates them" and also finds "joy" and "pride" in "servile imitation of those who oppress him" (Tocqueville). While Tocqueville accurately discerns that slavery systematically stripped humanity from the lives
of slaves, "remembrance of his country, the language of his forefathers..." etc., he mistakes subservience for acquiescence. Although, later in this chapter, he speculates that freed slaves would become a
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