Slavery

A detailed Summary of Slavery

During slavery, white Europeans, established hierarchies and maintained power over black people by constructing and constantly manipulating the definitions of "race," "identity" and "culture". In the Caribbean and southern United States white Europeans enslaved black Africans. They established and encouraged the stereotype that Blacks were violent, ignorant and uncivilized. Further, they truly believed that Blacks were non-human. Europeans committed atrocious human rights violations against an entire "race" of people. Europeans justified their actions by inventing false logic and promoting propaganda throughout the Caribbean and United States.

First of all, the identity of the black women is viewed as a stereotype.

During slavery white people saw the black women as being physically strong, masculine animalistic, and non human when compared to white women who are seen as pure, delicate, and fragile. Curiously, considering this awful description and image of the black women, white men still viewed them as promiscuous. When slave women arrived in the Caribbean and/or United States they were barely clothed. White people were taught that this nakedness reflected promiscuity in the black woman. The white men used this false no

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The black women slave could not be a good mother since she couldn't take care of her children and give them all they needed. She is not there for her husband since she is always in labor. The truth is that in most cases the slave women had to take more care of her master's kid than her own. Her kids would be sold to another master severing her relationship with her children. For the Europeans, a man has to be able to provide for all the needs of his family, but in slave families this was impossible because they would always be separated. This was extremely painful for the black man and created low self-esteem as he questioned himself as a provider. The black families are described as unstable because most of them have been separated. The absence of strong father and mother figures was detrimental to the development of these black slave families. Regardless of the circumstances these black single mothers would do everything in their power to properly raise their children. All Blacks viewed black women as extremely strong, almost as superheroes because they worked just as hard as the men but also found time to perform domestic duties and take care of their families by all means necessary. Even today, we see more matriarchal families in Black communities.

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According to white people at the time, Africans were useless. They couldn't see them developing any sort of industry and they viewed their culture as ridiculous and primitive. To whites, black people were ignorant, inferior and non-human. Their only real purpose was manual labour because they were physically strong. When Europeans descended on America they needed labor for their plantations. They enslaved the Africans, and forced them to work just to increase their economic power. Leveraging their increased knowledge of technology whites dominated the Africans, they rejected any religion that wasn't Christian and generally treated and viewed the Africans as animals or "others". According to the Europeans, their culture and religion was the only one recognized by God. The fact that many Africans were illiterate helped facilit

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