Explain How Slavery And Polices That Have Shaped The Conditions Of Black America
Shock Doctrines: Slavery and Polices that have shaped the conditions of black america
Barnesev
AFAS 260
July 20, 2011
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Brief History of Enslavement 3
Racial Discrimination Alive and Well 4
Jim Crow Laws Versus The New Jim Crow 4
Psychological 7
Education 8
Culture: African American Community 10
Conclusion 12
References 13
Introduction
Social injustice has affected our society since the beginning of its existance. Our status as one of the world most industrialized wealthy nations, and as a world power primarily led to slavery. The institutionalized systematic abuse that supassed humanity during the slave era still has lasting and lingering affects on our society today. Power, privilege and free labor build wealth for the wealthy elite, white males; all at the expense of an oppressed society. In its verb form slavery was a double crime to the many that were subjected to it. It dehumanized them by forcing them into servitue and it denied them the basic right of life, liberty and justice.
African American …show more content…
More specifically, slavery became rooted in the British North American Colonies in the period after the arrival of the first Africans in Jamestown in 1619, one year before the pilgrims first reached Massachusetts (Taylor, 2009). Many historians characterize the enslavement of Africans as beginning with the 20 blacks brought to Jamestown by way of a Dutch vessel (Taylor, 2009). However, slavery in British North America was not formally fixed until the 1660s. By 1690, all the British colonies in British North America had enslaved Africans. By 1675 there were only about five thousand Africans enslaved in British North America, and only twenty-seven thousand by the 1700s (to include African, Native Americans and
Barnesev
AFAS 260
July 20, 2011
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Brief History of Enslavement 3
Racial Discrimination Alive and Well 4
Jim Crow Laws Versus The New Jim Crow 4
Psychological 7
Education 8
Culture: African American Community 10
Conclusion 12
References 13
Introduction
Social injustice has affected our society since the beginning of its existance. Our status as one of the world most industrialized wealthy nations, and as a world power primarily led to slavery. The institutionalized systematic abuse that supassed humanity during the slave era still has lasting and lingering affects on our society today. Power, privilege and free labor build wealth for the wealthy elite, white males; all at the expense of an oppressed society. In its verb form slavery was a double crime to the many that were subjected to it. It dehumanized them by forcing them into servitue and it denied them the basic right of life, liberty and justice.
African American …show more content…
More specifically, slavery became rooted in the British North American Colonies in the period after the arrival of the first Africans in Jamestown in 1619, one year before the pilgrims first reached Massachusetts (Taylor, 2009). Many historians characterize the enslavement of Africans as beginning with the 20 blacks brought to Jamestown by way of a Dutch vessel (Taylor, 2009). However, slavery in British North America was not formally fixed until the 1660s. By 1690, all the British colonies in British North America had enslaved Africans. By 1675 there were only about five thousand Africans enslaved in British North America, and only twenty-seven thousand by the 1700s (to include African, Native Americans and