Created in the 1820s by the American Colonization Society, Liberia is a country that was “founded,” by freed slaves and free Blacks from the United States. Several factors led to the initial support of colonization in this nation and clergy, merchants, and slaveholder’s established the national organization to send over four-thousand Blacks to the West Coast of Africa. In this essay I will delve into the economic, social, and political reasons for colonization in Liberia.
Support for colonization and the desire to remove freed slaves and free Blacks emerged within the institution of enslavement. In the eighteenth century, slavery was a regularized business in which European merchants, African traders, and American planters engaged in complex bargaining over human lives, all with a purpose of securing a profit (Foner, GML, 131). Slave plantations greatly contributed to massive economic development in the New World. …show more content…
This heritage extends back to the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and appears in the classical literature of the Greco-Roman era. Racism is an epidemic that has been around since the beginning of time and has spread throughout the entire world. It is inevitable to say that since the beginning of time markers have been placed on slaves to differentiate masters from “natural slaves”. Such markers included, but were not limited to big lips, dark skin, laziness and academic ignorance. Many scholars have brought to light countless justifications that anti black slavery occurred on a global scale. David Brion Davis revealed that, “in 1837 the French painter and theorist Jacques-Nicolas Paillot de Montabert reminded other artists that while white “is the symbol of Divinity or God,” black “is the symbol of darkness and darkness expresses all evils,” adding that black signifies chaos, ugliness, vice, guilt, sin, and misfortune (David Brion Davis,
Support for colonization and the desire to remove freed slaves and free Blacks emerged within the institution of enslavement. In the eighteenth century, slavery was a regularized business in which European merchants, African traders, and American planters engaged in complex bargaining over human lives, all with a purpose of securing a profit (Foner, GML, 131). Slave plantations greatly contributed to massive economic development in the New World. …show more content…
This heritage extends back to the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and appears in the classical literature of the Greco-Roman era. Racism is an epidemic that has been around since the beginning of time and has spread throughout the entire world. It is inevitable to say that since the beginning of time markers have been placed on slaves to differentiate masters from “natural slaves”. Such markers included, but were not limited to big lips, dark skin, laziness and academic ignorance. Many scholars have brought to light countless justifications that anti black slavery occurred on a global scale. David Brion Davis revealed that, “in 1837 the French painter and theorist Jacques-Nicolas Paillot de Montabert reminded other artists that while white “is the symbol of Divinity or God,” black “is the symbol of darkness and darkness expresses all evils,” adding that black signifies chaos, ugliness, vice, guilt, sin, and misfortune (David Brion Davis,