Outliers

The Matthew Effect and The 10,000 Hour Rule
Both of these chapters deal with the importance of special opportunities that significant outliers received on their path to fame and success. This idea caused me to think about the famous anti-slavery leaders we hold on pedestals, such as Abe Lincoln, Henry Clay, John Brown, and William Lloyd Garrison. These men were in the right place at the right time to start this movement. With the industrial revolution starting to take a toll on America, the need for slaves was becoming less significant. The incentive for enslaving fellow human beings was declining, allowing morals to resurface on the topic. Of course, as said in American Lives 2, not all slave owners and other whites agreed with slavery. The need for slaves was just too high to make a forceful attempt to abolish it. I think there's a lot of untold reasons for slavery and for its abolition

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