African and Native American Slavery

             The 1500's, a time of discovery, was when the Europeans came to dominate
             most of the New World. The Europeans traveled to Africa and captured Africans
             to help develop their land and satisfy their need for power. I feel that the
             treatment of the Indians and Africans by the Europeans was completely
             unjustifiable. While the Indians and Africans were less technologically
             advanced and the Europeans were uneducated, in this particular field, nothing
             can compensate for the actions of the Europeans.
             As Europeans began to settle new lands they began their exploration of
             the foreign worlds. What they found was the opposite of what they expected.
             They found what they thought was a new breed of humans. In reality they were
             just Native Americans. These Indians were less technologically advanced than
             the Europeans. They also worshipped different and multiple gods and ate
             different foods. Europeans saw this as barbaric, so they treated them as
             In the beginning Native Americans hadn't the faintest idea of what the
             Europeans had in mind when they said trade. They figured that when the White
             Man came and showed all that hospitality they meant it. Of course, they didn't,
             the Europeans captured the Indians to be used as slaves. They were also
             slaughtered and raped because of resistance to leave their land. If any Indians
             refused to leave their land they would be killed. The women were raped for sick
             and disgusting reasons. Europeans didn't feel that the women, or men for that
             matter, were worth anything as humans so they were beat and raped without any
             thought about what they might be doing.
             As we watched the movie Roots, I noticed a part in the movie where they
             were on a ship and a man brings in a black woman, who was a slave. The man
             offered her to the ship's captain and referred to her as a belly warmer. That
             got me to thinking what could be going on in that man's head as he said that...

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