Over the past few centuries of mistreatment and oppression on African-Americans, labor such as the treatment of Black slaves and laws pertaining slaves have evolved and have significantly impacted the social organization of Black communities. Social organization regards to the composition of a community- politically, socially and economically in regard to the greater scope of society. Labor impacts the social organization of Black communities by oppressing African-Americans, dehumanizing slaves and creating a rigid economic caste system to hinder movement up the social class.
Labor has caused serious social oppression and racial injustice on Black communities as it has created a wide divide between white and black races and the stigma of slaves …show more content…
During reconstruction, many black slaves were physically trapped to the landowner due to the sharecropping system. This process allowed white-dominated landowners to oppress black slaves by insisting that actually the sharecroppers owed more to the landowner and were forced to work and repay the debt, causing many to go into more debt or forced into poverty. Thus, sharecropping ensured that black communities would have little hope of improving their economic situation. Due to the black slaves accepting the lowest wages, it kept the black slaves competitive and employed and kept “white labor out of the work of the South and threatened its wages and stability in the north” which created animosity towards black slaves that escalated to many riots between blacks and whites in Cincinnati and Philadelphia. The general public negative opinion of black slaves, “This is a white man’s country and the white man must rule”(Ida 10) made it very hard for black communities to rise above and climb up the social ladder even if they were deemed as free men. Similarly, white women that were romantically involved with black men would be willing to accuse the latter of rape to “I feared I might give birth to a Negro baby. I hoped to save my reputation by telling you a …show more content…
Despite, that the black community were significant contributors to the agriculture economy and was dominated by American mixed-race individuals and , they still heavily socially suffered compared to
Labor has caused serious social oppression and racial injustice on Black communities as it has created a wide divide between white and black races and the stigma of slaves …show more content…
During reconstruction, many black slaves were physically trapped to the landowner due to the sharecropping system. This process allowed white-dominated landowners to oppress black slaves by insisting that actually the sharecroppers owed more to the landowner and were forced to work and repay the debt, causing many to go into more debt or forced into poverty. Thus, sharecropping ensured that black communities would have little hope of improving their economic situation. Due to the black slaves accepting the lowest wages, it kept the black slaves competitive and employed and kept “white labor out of the work of the South and threatened its wages and stability in the north” which created animosity towards black slaves that escalated to many riots between blacks and whites in Cincinnati and Philadelphia. The general public negative opinion of black slaves, “This is a white man’s country and the white man must rule”(Ida 10) made it very hard for black communities to rise above and climb up the social ladder even if they were deemed as free men. Similarly, white women that were romantically involved with black men would be willing to accuse the latter of rape to “I feared I might give birth to a Negro baby. I hoped to save my reputation by telling you a …show more content…
Despite, that the black community were significant contributors to the agriculture economy and was dominated by American mixed-race individuals and , they still heavily socially suffered compared to