Wednesday, 18 May 2011

Things i learned about race and ethics this semester pt1

The ideologies of these categories are what set the standards for the plantation economy. All of these factors were used as tools, by white people to put fear in African people and everyone else who wasn’t the same as them. For hundreds of years it always seemed as if the African culture was inferior to the white Europeans. During this time the color of your skin was the deciding factor of what you can or cannot do in society. Africans were forced out their homes and watched their villages crumble as white began to capture them and takeover. This is why in a plantation economy your plantation owners or masters are white and the slaves are the people of color. “Conquest, Settlement, and Slavery: The Makings of the Colonial Economy.

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