{"id":8574,"date":"2020-06-04T09:02:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T09:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homeworkminutes.com\/blog\/?p=8574"},"modified":"2022-12-26T22:29:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T06:29:29","slug":"history-of-racism-and-slavery-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeworkminutes.com\/blog\/history-of-racism-and-slavery-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Racism and Slavery in the U.S.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

If we turn back to the historical references, one of the predominant movements has been the history of racism in the U.S… By calling it a movement, the races who dominated and suffered got involved in a rage – struggling to a life and death situation. To understand history instead of mugging it up for the sake of scoring good grades is the new approach to education. In this blog, you get to travel back in time to a racist world when color, caste, and creed deplored the conditions of inferiors or rather made inferior. With the understanding of the history of racism, you’ll have a good hold of racial inequities and structural racism. Plus, you’ll get to know how these movements backed-up the black life matters protest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Definition of Racism<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As per the <\/span>Cambridge Dictionary,<\/span>\u00a0Racism is “the belief that their race influences people’s qualities and that the members of other races are not as good as the members of your own or the resulting unfair treatment of members of other races.”\u00a0 <\/span>Discrimination based on color, caste, creed, race, language, and birthplace led to wars, slavery, and many protests. To make you more familiar with the term ‘ racism,’ let’s dive into the brief background of Racism in America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Background of Racism\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

While tracing the background of Racism in America, it gets hard to make out, wherefrom the term racism came up. While contemporary scientists rejected race classification, the white Americans continued adopting it. As per an account by History T.V.,<\/span><\/p>\n

“In August of 1619, a journal entry<\/span> recorded<\/span> that “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia and were then were bought by English colonists.”<\/span><\/p>\n

-marking the beginning of racism. But, people were not aware of it until the major instances upraised in the 17th and 18th centuries. The black races from Africa came to American-Whiteland when the dominant races kidnapped them. Also, how they forced them into slavery in the American colonies for years to come. The fate of these bonded laborers got confined to working under the white men on the production of crops such as cotton and tobacco. The American sub-continent could have torn-apart during the civil war. But, the union victory freed about 4 Million enslaved people and ended slavery in America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Events in the History of Slavery in America<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Do you know slavery and racism go hand in hand? Here are a few historical events in the instances of Racism in America to showcase how racism and, in turn, slavery has always led to revolution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cotton and Tea Plantation<\/h3>\n

Back then, many of the businessmen grew rich on the slave trade and investments in Southern plantations. Though the Northern states in the U.S. abolished slavery between 1774 and 1804, its “peculiar institution” remained vital to the south. The tacit domestic trade of the enslaved farmers continued in the U.S… In over 50 years, the number reached 4 Million, with more than half living in the cotton-producing states of the south.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of the enslaved races had to work as bonded laborers in the tea and cotton plantations. To keep them ignorant, the plantation owners prohibited them from learning to read and write. Added to that, the marriages between enslaved men and women had no legal basis. Plus, they got their bodies chained and had to work like a bull towing the field all day long.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Slave Rebellions<\/b><\/h3>\n

The history of racism was now taking the side of the oppressed – how? Since the number of slaves outnumbered the white men, there were constant threats of slave rebellions. If they collaborate, there nothing that can stop forging war and protest against the slaveholders. The most prominent slave rebellion that terrified them was the rebellion by Nat Turner. He was the only enslaved man who led the only effective and sustained slave rebellion in U.S. history (Source <\/span>History T.V.<\/span>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Southern States strengthened their slave codes to fear insurrections by slave rebellions. They prevented the free movement of the labors and forming alliances.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Abolitionist Movement<\/b><\/h3>\n

With time, the repressed Southern blacks realized that freedom is the power to choose our chains. From the 1830s to 1860s, the abolitionist movement started under the support of free blacks like Frederick Douglass. Even white ones like William Lloyd, and Harriet Beecher Stowe (writer of The Uncle Tom’s Cabin), extended support. With the freeing of slaves via underground Railroads and events like:-\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n