Exam 2: Slavery Unwilling to Die- the Historical Development of Systemic Racism

Much wealth generated between the 1700s and the 1860s came from the forced migration of the slave trade and the violently coerced labor of enslaved men, women, and children on plantations.

As early as the 1620s, Africans were treated differently from English colonists.

Explain how the English language became an important weapon for subordinating enslaved Africans.

Discuss Booker T. Washington's description of the conditions that free blacks faced on large farms and plantations - "a kind of slavery that is in one sense as bad as the slavery of antebellum days."

In developing laws oppressing German Jews and other racially targeted groups, Nazi:

One contemporary researcher's data suggest that as many as 46 million white Americans are current descendants of the white homestead families and are likely inheritors of some wealth from this major wealth-generating government program.

Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson occasionally expressed admiration for Indian societies.

One of the most oppressive aspects of U.S. racism lies in its sexual thread, which weaves itself through various manifestations of systemic racism to the present. Explain.

The North American colonies developed two modes of production. Describe each.

Describe the legacy of the United States' highly oppressive past, of the marks and burdens of a "slavery unwilling to die."

The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, was sometimes critical of slavery.

Describe the history of slavery in Massachusetts.

The ____________ removed the few remaining federal troops and eliminated much federal protection of black southerners, effectively ending the Reconstruction Era and welcoming Jim Crow.

The removal of federal soldiers from the streets and from statehouse offices in the South signaled the end of a commitment to protecting the civil and political rights of African Americans.

By the mid-nineteenth century, all Indigenous societies had no political and cultural autonomy from white European settlers.

The first Africans brought into the English colonies were bought by Jamestown colonists from a Dutch-flagged ship in _________.

At no point in U.S. history did European colonists enslave Native Americans in attempts to find exploitable labor.

Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey write: "Africans' enslavement is the ultimate foundation of the modern industrial and technological age." Explain.

The brutal and exploitative practices of whites were aberrations or occasional. They were NOT common practice in European colonials across the globe.

Describe how Christianity was/is dogmatic and Eurocentric in "ideology, organization, and practice."