There is brutality in the Virginian Luxuries power relationship shown in the Virginian Luxuries document. A cartoon is used to show the mistreatment of people by others in case a pole is raised to beat another person. The image demonstrates how people were managed by others who were in power. Alexis de Tocqueville Description of the three races in America The author states that there are three races in America: the whites, the blacks and the Indians. These groups of people are antagonistic to each other. The distinction between races made by Tocqueville concerned education and the way of governing. They were the main characteristics that brought antagonism between these communities of the United States of America. Whites were provided with quality education, while Blacks and Indians were isolated. Whites, that is, Europeans, were considered superior to the other two races, while blacks and Indians occupy the smallest and poorest part of the country. Negroes are usually people from Africa, who emigrated to America and were enslaved soon after birth. Against the background of the Negroes, they prefer slavery to independence (Johnson 239). Tocqueville argues that blacks are struggling to fit into the culture of Europeans while Indians desire freedom from slavery. Through the effort of blacks to ingratiate their cultures into the American way of life, they exposed themselves to mistreatment by Europeans. To my way of thinking, blacks have been subjected to abuse by whites due to a lack of trust in their culture. The document also explains that the blacks and Indians were given a bad life by the Europeans. The kind of mistreatment and inhumane actions that... middle of paper... after politics when he was president of the United States. In his era, Lincoln promoted respect for human rights and greater equality among all citizens of the country. His words were therefore put into practice not only for political purposes. Freedom and slavery were the defining characteristics of the Civil War. The war emerged with the need to end the slave trade. The 1860 election raised many questions about the slave trade as Democrats supported the trade while Republicans rejected the agreement. The Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment helped end slavery and promote freedom among enslaved people. Other ways to promote freedom and the abolition of slavery included placing federal troops in the South to ensure that Africans freed from slavery were not enslaved again..