White supremacy is this illusion that white men are more superior than everybody else, especially people of color and occasionally women. Currently, slavery was not about one’s skin color. At this time, slavery started off as indentured servitude. Where people whom lacked civilization served masters for a number of years and later on received their personal freedom.
Anthony Johnson was a black slave for several years, however later in his life he gained his freedom. After Johnson received freedom, he became a slave owner of white slaves himself. So one could ask if slavery did not associate with racism, then what does it depend on? The fact of the matter is, it had none to do with one’s color of skin, but in the aspects such of religion, where one was born, perhaps social class as well. Instead of being a matter over skin color, racism came in the form of having different cultures.
Because racism was more about being uncivilized, slavery was the first to appear. White citizens believed that their culture was the correct way to live. It was the idea of indentured servitude that slowly lead into an issue of becoming slavery. During the growth of slavery, the owners started making decisions on how their slaves should be treated.
Throughout 1675-1676 during the King Phillip’s War a very large number of Indian slaves were …show more content…
On the ship through the Middle Passage African slaves experienced being raped, whipped, and diseases such as smallpox, and conjunctivitis. For the enslaved Africans, the Middle Passage was just the middle of their journey from Africa to the Americas. The first part of the journey was in Africa to a coastal slave-trading factory. Second was the Middle Passage and it was spent traveling across the Atlantic Ocean. The third, and last is acculturation and transported the African slaves into their locations where news slaves were forced to
Anthony Johnson was a black slave for several years, however later in his life he gained his freedom. After Johnson received freedom, he became a slave owner of white slaves himself. So one could ask if slavery did not associate with racism, then what does it depend on? The fact of the matter is, it had none to do with one’s color of skin, but in the aspects such of religion, where one was born, perhaps social class as well. Instead of being a matter over skin color, racism came in the form of having different cultures.
Because racism was more about being uncivilized, slavery was the first to appear. White citizens believed that their culture was the correct way to live. It was the idea of indentured servitude that slowly lead into an issue of becoming slavery. During the growth of slavery, the owners started making decisions on how their slaves should be treated.
Throughout 1675-1676 during the King Phillip’s War a very large number of Indian slaves were …show more content…
On the ship through the Middle Passage African slaves experienced being raped, whipped, and diseases such as smallpox, and conjunctivitis. For the enslaved Africans, the Middle Passage was just the middle of their journey from Africa to the Americas. The first part of the journey was in Africa to a coastal slave-trading factory. Second was the Middle Passage and it was spent traveling across the Atlantic Ocean. The third, and last is acculturation and transported the African slaves into their locations where news slaves were forced to