MONSTERS MYTHS AND SLAVERY
As children grow up, many show a degree of difficulties and struggle when told to go to sleep. Relating many factors such as darkness and desolation, it is quite achievable to give children a mindset of fear, by generalizing these factors and concepts and turn the into something supernatural and childlike, maybe for obedience practices or simply to give a sense of fear to show hierarchy and dominance. These practices have existed for many years, in the history of humanity and have not ceased to work just in children, in contrary, plenty of historical happenings were driven and maintained by the creation of monsters which relied on fear given to people. From educating children to the entire population of newborn/founded …show more content…
By stressing that slavery was maintained by “monster myths.” Telling us tales in different spans of time that eventually developed into an all-around idea of racism towards anyone that was not white. He explains how Puritans held a strong desire for hunting and destroying monsters, as shown in the Witchcraft trials held between 1692 - 1693, where they unjustly accused and executed “witches” or suspicious woman based on visions, revelations or alleged apparitions. Showing “a brief flirtation with an irrational past” (Poole, 38) that eventually was passed down from colonial America until the era of Slavery, in where we see “puritan methods” of radiating fear towards African American slaves, which also, faced false accusations of a kind of “witchcraft” called conjuration or sorcery, that lead to a wave of several slave executions. It reinforced the fairy-like concept that white folks were willing to accept and practicing with no guilt, as long as their desires were accomplished. Desires such as social and racial hierarchy, as well as economic enrichment, which we see, directly affects the status of a brand new founded country such as the United …show more content…
Poole executes the transition of the times quite well, by jumping to different stages of the formation of the United States in a rather organized matter, necessary to prove that indeed the United States was founded on Slavery and not on democracy. Firstly, by introducing the idea of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin believing that enormous creatures, or rather, “frontier monsters” lived and existed in America, creating a desire for white-supremacist to go out and conquer those beasts for their extermination purposes. While that 's not been enough, Culture started speculating the fact that some of these gigantic beast could indeed be giant, orangutan-looking apes, that practice sexual intercourse with African Woman. Again, going back to the idea of generalizing and demonizing a certain race of human. It’s explained that, many of the people who everyone believes to be the heroes of Freedom and Independence of America, such as Thomas Jefferson, had an inferiority complex by sharing ideas describing white supremacy. “He certainly assented to the belief that African people are inferior to whites in the endowments of body and mind” (Poole, 46) which efficiently leads to an assumption that our so called “Democracy heroes” believed in race inferiority and that had no problem believing that Africans were nothing more than mere beasts to be tamed, and to be made into slaves for the benefit of
As children grow up, many show a degree of difficulties and struggle when told to go to sleep. Relating many factors such as darkness and desolation, it is quite achievable to give children a mindset of fear, by generalizing these factors and concepts and turn the into something supernatural and childlike, maybe for obedience practices or simply to give a sense of fear to show hierarchy and dominance. These practices have existed for many years, in the history of humanity and have not ceased to work just in children, in contrary, plenty of historical happenings were driven and maintained by the creation of monsters which relied on fear given to people. From educating children to the entire population of newborn/founded …show more content…
By stressing that slavery was maintained by “monster myths.” Telling us tales in different spans of time that eventually developed into an all-around idea of racism towards anyone that was not white. He explains how Puritans held a strong desire for hunting and destroying monsters, as shown in the Witchcraft trials held between 1692 - 1693, where they unjustly accused and executed “witches” or suspicious woman based on visions, revelations or alleged apparitions. Showing “a brief flirtation with an irrational past” (Poole, 38) that eventually was passed down from colonial America until the era of Slavery, in where we see “puritan methods” of radiating fear towards African American slaves, which also, faced false accusations of a kind of “witchcraft” called conjuration or sorcery, that lead to a wave of several slave executions. It reinforced the fairy-like concept that white folks were willing to accept and practicing with no guilt, as long as their desires were accomplished. Desires such as social and racial hierarchy, as well as economic enrichment, which we see, directly affects the status of a brand new founded country such as the United …show more content…
Poole executes the transition of the times quite well, by jumping to different stages of the formation of the United States in a rather organized matter, necessary to prove that indeed the United States was founded on Slavery and not on democracy. Firstly, by introducing the idea of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin believing that enormous creatures, or rather, “frontier monsters” lived and existed in America, creating a desire for white-supremacist to go out and conquer those beasts for their extermination purposes. While that 's not been enough, Culture started speculating the fact that some of these gigantic beast could indeed be giant, orangutan-looking apes, that practice sexual intercourse with African Woman. Again, going back to the idea of generalizing and demonizing a certain race of human. It’s explained that, many of the people who everyone believes to be the heroes of Freedom and Independence of America, such as Thomas Jefferson, had an inferiority complex by sharing ideas describing white supremacy. “He certainly assented to the belief that African people are inferior to whites in the endowments of body and mind” (Poole, 46) which efficiently leads to an assumption that our so called “Democracy heroes” believed in race inferiority and that had no problem believing that Africans were nothing more than mere beasts to be tamed, and to be made into slaves for the benefit of