The Euro-American desire to expand the cultivation of cotton at a low manufacturing cost is socially unproductive because it called for the proliferation of African-origin peoples at the cost of their mental health and life. To begin growing their labor force, the Europeans first needed to create a social structure whereby the slaves became subservient to their masters. Hartman quotes Canetti in saying, “Anyone who wants to rule men first tries to humiliate them, to trick them out of their rights and their capacity for resistance, until they are as powerless before him as animals”(Hartman 89). This rang true when the Europeans sought to create the African American race. Upon being captured, “The [African] masters or Europeans hold out as a
