The role of slave resistance in bringing slavery to an end is often overlooked. However, slave revolts were very important as they put pressure on the colonial system and made politicians realise that ultimately slavery had to be abolished. A slave revolt was what all those involved in the slave trade feared most.
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During WWII, Japanese Americans on the west coast states were placed in internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the U.S. Government in fear that they would collaborate with the Japanese forces. After the war was over, many of the Japanese Americans were still discriminated against, since Americans were still mad and weary of them. However, Congress approved for $20,000 to be payed to each surviving camp member in 1988, over 40 years afterwards.
For the last part of the question, many argue that a correlation can be made, since it was the U.S. government who originally allowed slavery to be maintained.
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Not all southerners are republicans
It kept critics and dissenters away from the main population by imprisoning them in remote labor camps. Usually they were executed if they showed to be too much of a threat
