The topic of African enslavement has come up in both my World and African American history classes at this point. For many of us today, it is difficult for us to imagine a world untouched by the modern conception of race with which we live and through which our most recent ancestors struggled.
The clip below I think sheds a little more light on the topic of Black and White racial harmony before the explosion of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade during the mid-eighteenth century. Many argue that it is not until well after the introduction Black slavery in the Americas that a history of racial inferiorization begins:
More information on the shift from racial harmony to racial separation:
2 comments:
this is so nice atleast some whites back thrn treated the blacks as equals.
I just learned a new thing after watching these clips. I mean like I always thought that in the past, blacks were treated unequal and that whites would be on top of the blakcs. But after seeing these clips, I relized that back then, there was white slaves too and that some black and white were treated equaly.
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