Before the Mayflower
An article "Before the Mayflower" goes into a discussion of development of racism in Europe and Americas. I shall use the facts provided by the author and the concepts of Marxism to analyze and dissect the origins of racism in Americas and Europe. With the discovery of Africa by Europeans a new era began in European trade. It was very profitable to trade with a newly discovered nation since they possessed many products wanted by European traders and would sell them cheaply for the goods they've never seen before. Africans were royal and noble people who didn't see themselves inferior to Europeans nor did Europeans see Africans inferior in any way. It's interesting to see that Europeans saw Africans superior in some trades, an example of one would be agriculture, which was better developed in Africa than Europe. Religion found its way to Africa as well. Many preachers turned their steps onto a "black" continent in order to spread god's word. Many members of African tribes did turn into Catholicism and held important offices in Vatican. Many Africans were servants, military men, traders and scholar in Europe. They participated in discovery and exploration of the New World after its discovery by Columbus.
Ship making and metallurgy plants developed, as a result in higher demand of textile industry more cotton plantations spawned in south, and since rebellions on slave ships were common the new form of insurance was born, insurrection insurance. " Majority of Negroes came to Americas as indentured servants. A major factor in the consideration of slaves on plantation is the flux of the land. Planters had an abundance of land and a shortage of labor. Like their white comrades, they didn't see a difference between being black and white indentured servant. Tobacco was the major crop of the 17th century, and tobacco is a plant that exhausts nutrients from the soil, which led to the rotation of crops, in order to replenish the crops. To the planter, slavery was the ideal form of labor that would be most beneficial to productivity of his crop. For about four centuries white as well as black slave traders would brutalize, immortalize and abuse innocent blacks. Indentured servitude could have been continued for black and white servants or both groups could have been reduced to slavery. Morality was not taken into consideration, because of the settlers were only viewing slavery from an economic view, rather than a humanitarian point of view. They were rigidly accepted by white people and interracial marriages were common. During the late 17th century, the indentured servants were running away from their masters farms, if a slave had run away from their master's farms, then the slave would be easier to discern because of the color of his skin. The introduction of slavery into the colonies can be summarized with a cliche of the settlers being "at the right place at the right time".
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