World Essay spec

Patrick Backlas
3/16/15
Ap World 3rd Hr

Compare/Contrast Essay

During the time period of 155-1850 racial ideologies were very prevalent in North America as well as in Latin America and the Caribbean. North American and Latin American and Caribbean racial ideologies were similar in that they both utilized slaves and they treated the native peoples brutally. These societies also differed in that Latin American and Caribbean colonists often intermarried with indigenous women, while the North American colonists often set themselves apart, and they differ in that in the native empires in Latin American and the Caribbean were destroyed while in North America they avoided the natives. To begin with, North American and Latin American and Caribbean racial ideologies are alike in that they both used slaves and in their treatment of the native people. Both societies utilized slaves as that was the cheapest form of labor available to them, and was very readily available. The native people in both regions often became the object of great social stigma. The bounds of their mistreatments varied, in North America they were pushed aside or sometimes were confined to specific areas to live. In the Caribbean and areas of Latin America they were forced into servitude and labor. One of the dominant racial ideologies of the time between 1500 to 1830 revolved around shipping slaves from Africa to the America’s to increase the production of their colonies. In both regions slaves were often treated as livestock as they were bought and sold. Their racial ideology of European dominance directly influenced this practice. Similarly with the discriminatory treatment of the native peoples the continuing practice of slave trading in both of these regions was an effect on society caused by racial ideologies. On the other hand, North American and Latin America and the Caribbean differ in that they intermarried with natives in Latin America while in North America they avoided the Natives, and they also differed in that The colonists of the New World were those who travelled from Europe to the America’s or those born in the America’s of European descent implemented the total colonization of both North American and Latin America and the Caribbean.