{"id":2482,"date":"2020-09-01T11:13:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T15:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2020-09-01T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T15:13:45","slug":"pierce-kaliner-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/09\/01\/pierce-kaliner-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierce Kaliner Blog Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Drawing the Color Line I found it interesting how from the very first settlement in Jamestown there was a feeling of racial superiority. White servants were treated differently from the black servants. In order to fight the Indians, \u201cA law passed in 1639 decreed that \u2018all persons except Negroes\u2019 were to get arms and ammunition.\u201d Slavery wasn\u2019t technically legalized yet, but it was evident how the white settlers felt a superiority to the slaves. Another example of the superiority is shown in punishments, \u201cThe court ruled \u2018that the negro women shall be whipt at the whipping post and the said Sweat shall tomorrow in the forenoon do public penance for his offense at James citychurch\u2026\u201d\u00a0 While the white man barely gets any punishment the black servant is whipped. The power structure is made so that the white ruling class is able to keep its power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The way that the slave trade is vividly described is deeply frightening. From capture to the boats to the plantations Zinn is able to show the life of a slave starting from Africa. The trans-Atlantic slave trade is horrifying, and I already knew that. However, the sheer amount of profit from the slave trade was crazy. For example James Madison, \u201cShortly after the American Revolution that he could make $257 on every Negro in a year, and spend only $12 or $13 on his keep.\u201d That\u2019s a crazy amount of money while adjusting for inflation.\u00a0 Also, only spending 12 or 13 dollars on keeping a human being is craziness. Meanwhile, James Madison, one of our founding fathers boasts about the terrible conditions in which he holds his slaves. Just a reminder of the horrifying reality of our history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Drawing the Color Line I found it interesting how from the very first settlement in Jamestown there was a feeling of racial superiority. White&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/09\/01\/pierce-kaliner-blog-post\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pierce Kaliner Blog Post<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4923,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}