What caused Europeans to transform Africa into the most viable and exclusive source of servile labor, thus creating what amounted to racial slavery in the New world?
Racism did not cause slavery to become black, an opportunistic human race during the birth of modern capitalism did, thus Slavery created racism not vice versa.
Slavery only needed theological and philosophical foundations that hid the real sickness in people; which was the ability to consciously dehumanize and torture another one of Gods creations for pure economic gain and desires.
Greed, the “root of all evil and root of Transatlantic slavery” was not restricted to particular communities, it did not discriminate, all races, religions, social classes, were affected. The only victims being the ones whom were stripped of their human identity and reduced to mere tangible commodities.
Europeans came from a predatory, greedy, …show more content…
The monies which acquired a white man’s labor for ten years could buy a Negro for life. “Three blacks work better and cheaper than one white man.” QUOTE
White servitude was the foundation thereupon Negro slavery was established. “the Africans were rookies forced into a scheme that’s already been around for a long time”
Once they got away they could own their own land and sell their own goods which could also create competition for the motherland.
In the eyes of Europeans, Africans seemed like a perfect fit for enslavement; they weren’t Christians; their location was comparatively close by; they were expert farmers; they had resistance to European and equilateral diseases and most importantly, they were easily accessible in extraordinary amounts at the hands of African-directed trade Networks. Having these solid network connections with African elites that were already established, made it much easier to supply the work force needed on plantations when sugar, tobacco and cotton became the agricultural staple in the
Racism did not cause slavery to become black, an opportunistic human race during the birth of modern capitalism did, thus Slavery created racism not vice versa.
Slavery only needed theological and philosophical foundations that hid the real sickness in people; which was the ability to consciously dehumanize and torture another one of Gods creations for pure economic gain and desires.
Greed, the “root of all evil and root of Transatlantic slavery” was not restricted to particular communities, it did not discriminate, all races, religions, social classes, were affected. The only victims being the ones whom were stripped of their human identity and reduced to mere tangible commodities.
Europeans came from a predatory, greedy, …show more content…
The monies which acquired a white man’s labor for ten years could buy a Negro for life. “Three blacks work better and cheaper than one white man.” QUOTE
White servitude was the foundation thereupon Negro slavery was established. “the Africans were rookies forced into a scheme that’s already been around for a long time”
Once they got away they could own their own land and sell their own goods which could also create competition for the motherland.
In the eyes of Europeans, Africans seemed like a perfect fit for enslavement; they weren’t Christians; their location was comparatively close by; they were expert farmers; they had resistance to European and equilateral diseases and most importantly, they were easily accessible in extraordinary amounts at the hands of African-directed trade Networks. Having these solid network connections with African elites that were already established, made it much easier to supply the work force needed on plantations when sugar, tobacco and cotton became the agricultural staple in the