The modern day America is famed for being a place where the rights of the people are respected and everyone is under the protection of the law. That is, everyone has the right to make his decisions and live as a free citizen who has the right to enjoy his rights. However, this has not always been that case. For the period running from 1808 to 1865, America was one place where gross violation of the human rights took place (Head, 1). This is the peak period in which slave trade was the in-thing, and the plantation owners in the American lands wanted slaves to work on their plantations. The slavery heightened when Eli Whitney came up with the cotton gin, a machine that could be used to separate the cotton seed from the fiber.