It 's obvious you 're well versed and well read about Africa and Africans. Here 's what confuse me about your statements on slavery. You made the same points about Africa, Africans and slavery that I made to you then you tell me you sorry you disagree. Here is what you said, “FIRST, LET ME SAY THAT THE AFRICANS UR SPEAKING OF WERE THEMSELVES IN BONDAGE. AFTER WE WERE TAKEN AS SLAVES, IF U REMEMBER, PORTUGAL, SPAIN, FRANCE, ENGLAND, THE DUTCH ....THEY OCCUPIED MUCH OF AFRICA. SO HOW WERE THEY GOING TO HELP US? SOME OF THE AFRICANS WHO WERE BROUGHT HERE WERE THEMSELVES ENSLAVED AND SOLD FOR WHATEVER THEY WERE WORTH. SELLING SLAVES OF DIFF TRIBES WAS COMMON. SLAVES, THO WERE SELDOM HELD IN SLAVERY FOR A LIFETIME. THIS, THAT WE EXPERIENCED…
The history of slavery spans many cultures and religions, from ancient times to modern day. Almost every country practiced it including America, Africa, Europe and Asia. The earliest forms of slavery can be tracked back to the ancient Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi and other ancient civilizations such as the Sumerians and Egyptians. However, there were many differences including total population, the punishments they faced, and overall purpose and origin of slaves in specific locations. Some…
Slavery, Sugar, and Industrialization: A Student Primer “The only group of clear gainers from the British trans-Atlantic slave trade, and even those gains were small, were the European consumers of sugar and tobacco and other plantation crops. They were given the chance to purchase dental decay and lung cancer at somewhat lower prices than would have been the case without the slave trade.” (Thomas and Bean 1974) I. Introduction Since Eric Williams wrote Capitalism and Slavery, and proposed…
Slavery between chattel Africa and New World Africa both were strong manners of oppression that were used to be a tool of fear and oppression. New World slavery often described with ostracizing the victim, is not usually thought of as a way to oppress someone especially in Modern Day Western Civilization. A contrived conception of African slavery by white oppressors often comes with the almost blaming of the African peoples who were in fact enslaved. Oppressors claiming that New World slavery…
What was first the chicken or the egg? The title of this essay can be used to explain the man debate on slavery and race. For many years people have been debating the topic of race creating slavery or slavery creating race. In order to make an informed decision on the subject matter one must look at both sides, and look arguments that were already presented in order to be completely informed. To start how this debate one must know basic definition of slavery and race. Race, as defined in…
human history all the way up to modern times has been labor. Two early ways humans covered the expenditure of labor were indentured servitude and slavery. Although they can be strikingly similar there are key differences. Family was a possibility in certain circumstances as an indentured servant while “Black as slaves were denied the right to family” (Buck 34). With this, relationships all together as indentured servants were possible, and it was prevalent. Although blacks were more mistreated…
Modern Day Slavery People think of slavery as a thing of the past, but what they don’t know is that there is more slavery in 2015 then there ever was 200 years ago. In modern times people know this as “human trafficking”. Human trafficking is the movement of vulnerability. People that are seen as “weak” are targeted. This is why people refure to human trafficking as a gender crime. Anyone can be targeted but the main victims are women or and young children. These victims get lured into traps by…
Slavery has existed in various forms since the beginning of time. Although there is no written record for when it began, slavery has appeared in texts ' as old as the bible. Two thousand years of turning human beings into profit. Perhaps the most notorious form of slavery, at least in the prospective of modern day Americans, is the transatlantic slave trade. Slavery was legal in the "land of the free" just 150 years ago and the ramifications of that have been evident since the abolishment of…
order to keep up with the demanding labor efforts from principal countries a system of slavery was put in place. A system that had been in place for thousands of years, the only difference now was that human lives weren’t regard as such. Mere objects and things is what these people were. The very act of slavery meant an entire race was below that of any other, due to the color of their skin. The “white mans” means in cultivating the “savage”. From the tribes of Africa to the colonies of American…
the time period of 1800-1860, the idea of slavery was very prominent in the Southern part of the United States. Slavery was brought to the US when it was still in its colonial phase and carried on into the Pre-Civil War Era. Slavery was a bad part of our history, but it helped form the nation we know today. The idea of slavery was taken to the extreme when people began to think about getting rid of the idea of having indentured servants, which you would release after so many years on their…