Any way you choose to word it, the main issue is that slavery was imposed and maintained through gun violence, and the South likewise attempted to keep that system in place by launching an armed rebellion. Also, racial fears about
black people, and their possible gun violence, definitely inform the reactionary and current racist logic of militia groups, the KKK, white nationalists, etc. Such types feel justified in carrying out violence against blacks, just as was done in the Antebellum, Reconstruction and Post-Reconstruction South, because they fear that blacks may exercise gun violence against them.
Then, of course, sadly, there is black-on-black gun violence, which grew out of the social depredations and socio-economic marginalizing wrought on blacks by Jim Crow laws, segregations, white law courts, lynching, etc, which drove blacks to sometimes mistrust and betray one another. This phenomenon grew into the violence perpetrated by modern black gangs, which mostly involves black-on-black crimes, all aimed at gaining exploitative supremacy over crime markets, such as drugs, illegal guns, prostitution, human trafficking, etc.
You are on the right track, think more in terms of slavery itself as a violent practice, and then realize how that system informed and informs ongoing mistrust, resentment and marginalizing of black people to this day, and I think that the answer will come to you.
**This is an email I received from my professor about the title of research paper I chose.
**I would like this assignment to be about slavery and gun violence in America, has slavery influenced gun violence, gun violence roots, repercussions of slavery in our modern society.
The title can be changed but focused on those points mentioned above and take into account teachers opinion above.
