Kadeem Jackson U. S. History September 25,2009 Socio-Historical impact of “Racism Is The Result Of Slavery” Human nature wants to cast people who are like oneself as better than people not like oneself. That bias requires very little encouragement when coupled with the tendency towards selective memory.
This impairs the normal empathy that generally prevents people from casually harming their fellows. A little push from greed and viola.It ought to be observed that the vast majority of people sold into slavery from sub-Saharan Africa were captured and conveyed into the hands of European slavers by their fellow Africans. The tribes and nations of the old slave coast became wealthy and powerful through selling their neighbors into bondage. No racism there, just tribalism and opportunism. The centrality of slave driven industries and agriculture became a sort of economic addiction that encouraged the foment of hard line ideological racism.
The bits in the old testament that cast slavery as benign and the parts about some people being born to serve the chosen people didn't help matters any. Slavery and racism have always existed somewhat independently of one another, though one can surely be modified to serve the other. Both, concepts, however, come from a sort of cultural, or at least "classiest" arrogance. The earliest examples of slaves (pre biblical) refer to slaves drawn from within a population that requires slaves: usually indigents and criminals were taken.
Once those people were used up, the societies in question (Egyptian, Roman, etc) began taking slaves from neighbors they'd conquered in open warfare, but even in those situations, there was still a kind of "human resource pool" within the societies that depended on slaves. Only recently (comparatively so) did slavery begin to rely almost exclusively on members of another society, as with Africans and Europeans/Euro-Americans and in the more modern examples, latent seeds of racism that do exist in relationship to slavery and slave-taking began to attain some measure of dominance.Some people even believe that slavery was actually formed back in the early BC when most slaves were from conquered tribes. There was no real distinction in most races so it was by territory. The slavery involving the early US was based on a way to make the act seem less inhuman so there were stereotypes and negative things made up to justify the act. As well as put up by a person before me debt slavery came to in later time when the land system to pay for things changed into a cash system so families would sell there own kids to be able to get money and for there kids to be able to eat.
That was in Mycenaean time and then since the Greek civilization formed from the Mycenaean civilization it carried over. Egyptians more commonly used slavery as a way to show that they had defeated and conquered enemies because they were conquered earlier by the Hyokos tribe in 1600 B. C. and before they were overthrown and the "New Kingdom" became about they were used as slaves in there own area. Then Persians used them and so did Greeks. Then some people think racism lead to slavery.
In order to enslave a person, you have to come the conclusion that they are less than human.In the case of modern N. American slavery (in comparison to the Roman, Arab and Chinese ancient incarnations), the institution was established under the assumption that blacks were not human. At least, not human as Northern Europeans were human. And thus, being less than people, they were suitable for slavery instead of something more akin to indentured servitude. It would have been unthinkable to create slaves out of even the lowliest French, Italian or British citizen within the American Colonies.
America was discovered in late 1400s by Italian Vespucci and Christopher Columbus. They latter objected to both slavery and racism against the Natives and for there pains and were sent home in irons. As most people know the Spanish who invaded later instigated both Racist attacks on the natives and made slaves of those not killed. Slavery was well enshrined in the rest of the world prior to this and despite Wilberforce it still exists to the present. In some countries its either slavery or death.
I use to think slavery came first. But now I can’t say that because to enslave black people there has to be the idea of racism. Similar to the chicken or the egg. Not really impossible because the chicken came first.
Cause without the chicken there wouldn’t have been any eggs produced from the chicken. But to answer the question of which is a result of which, racism came first because the idea has to come first and racism is an idea thought of countless times.
