In People’s History of the United States, Zinn states, “Although slavery was not yet regularized or legalized in those first years, the lists of servants show blacks listed separately”. Zinn bring out a great point here and talks about how the blacks in the society were the servants and ouches bases really on the nature of the African civilization. He compares the slavery in Europe and Africa and makes great point of the lives of the African people. In my response i will focus more on the arrival of the Slave ship in North America and more on the focus of the racial bias in the seventeenth century. In chapter one Zinn's arguments is more about understanding more of the history side of it and gaining the right knowledge and understanding
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And it was natural to consider imported blacks as slaves, even if the institution of slavery would not be regularized and legalized for several decades. Because, by 1619, a million blacks had already been brought from Africa to South America and the Caribbean, to the Portuguese and Spanish colonies, to work as slaves.” This is a very important thing that Zinn had brought up. When you think about it, a million black people were brought up for slavery.. That is a huge number! Maryland passed a law in 1723 providing for cutting off the ears of blacks who struck whites, and that for certain serious crimes, slaves should be hanged and the body quartered and exposed. It has been made clear that the African Americans were always defined as the servants and ans slaves of the US and the amount of African they brought in was outrageous. In chapter one Zinn mentions, “the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture; the reduction of the slave to less than human status by the use of racial hatred, with that relentless clarity based on color, where white was master, black was slave”. A law passed in 1639 decreed that "all persons except Negroes" were to get arms and Ammunition probably to fight off Indians. In this paragraph he is talking about how the Africans and Whites were divided and how whites ruled over all and how all these laws that were passed how they affected many lives. It really brings up a big point everyone needs to look deeply into and how bad it was and like zinn said, will there ever be an end to
And it was natural to consider imported blacks as slaves, even if the institution of slavery would not be regularized and legalized for several decades. Because, by 1619, a million blacks had already been brought from Africa to South America and the Caribbean, to the Portuguese and Spanish colonies, to work as slaves.” This is a very important thing that Zinn had brought up. When you think about it, a million black people were brought up for slavery.. That is a huge number! Maryland passed a law in 1723 providing for cutting off the ears of blacks who struck whites, and that for certain serious crimes, slaves should be hanged and the body quartered and exposed. It has been made clear that the African Americans were always defined as the servants and ans slaves of the US and the amount of African they brought in was outrageous. In chapter one Zinn mentions, “the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture; the reduction of the slave to less than human status by the use of racial hatred, with that relentless clarity based on color, where white was master, black was slave”. A law passed in 1639 decreed that "all persons except Negroes" were to get arms and Ammunition probably to fight off Indians. In this paragraph he is talking about how the Africans and Whites were divided and how whites ruled over all and how all these laws that were passed how they affected many lives. It really brings up a big point everyone needs to look deeply into and how bad it was and like zinn said, will there ever be an end to