{"id":2478,"date":"2020-09-01T09:54:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T13:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2020-09-01T09:54:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T13:54:59","slug":"a-color-line-still-present-today-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/09\/01\/a-color-line-still-present-today-9-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Color Line Still Present Today – 9\/2"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the \u201cDrawing the Color Line\u201d section of <\/span>A People\u2019s History of the United States<\/span><\/i>, Zinn describes the inhumane actions of early white Americans as the institution of slavery became instilled into society. Through my years of schooling, I have been taught how horribly we treated black people during the slave trade (and how America still fails to treat members of the black community as equal), but it still makes me sick to my stomach hearing how these innocent African Americans were taken from their homeland and tortured just for the white man\u2019s economic gain and insecure need for power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The commodification of African people during this time is portrayed through the description of how enslaved people were packed onto slave ships and sold into slavery. They were viewed as something to be traded for money and a resource for economic prosperity; they were not viewed as humans. In one of my previous history classes, I learned the slave ships could not leave the African coast until their ships were at absolute capacity, similar to how cargo ships pack goods tightly onto the ships. This illustrates that American\u2019s dehumanized these enslaved people so they could be seen as a good to be traded, allowing all regard for their human needs to dissipate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Zinn also brings up the point that racism was not a natural idea, but that there was \u201ca complex web of historical threads to ensnare blacks for slavery\u201d. One aspect of this \u201cweb\u201d that angered me was the fact that there were laws put in place to disable the collaboration of white and black people. The white Americans in power knew what they were doing was morally wrong and that rebellions would occur, therefore they had to do everything they could to prevent it. With these laws, the divide between whites and blacks worsened. Thankfully, laws like those do not exist anymore, but systematic racism still does. It is our job as a society to disassemble the racist institutions early America has created.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the \u201cDrawing the Color Line\u201d section of A People\u2019s History of the United States, Zinn describes the inhumane actions of early white Americans as…<\/p>\n

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