Slavery

Three important events that stood out to me during this week’s readings were the Colonial societies, and the Atlantic Slave Trade. I have taken many histories classes in my life time during each of those classes I have been frustrated during the topics of colonialism and slavery. Just like we discussed in class generations of Europeans after the Black Death really did change their ways of thinking. I see the importance of traveling to new lands and persevering their future generations. But what makes me upset is the treatment of the ingenious people of those lands they have conquered. For example it was interesting to see the differences between the settlements of Spanish America and North America. In South America, the Spaniards intergraded with the native people and different mixed raced civilizations arose. Even in Brazil, when Africans came there still was a huge mixed race population. But that different in Caribbean and the south in America. When comparing the different societies you can see how race has become a factor in this modern age. Because women came along later, Europeans did not feel the need to mate with black slaves. But I am still very frustrated on how the Europeans extorted the Native Americans out of their lands. They wiped out huge populations of them. And they got cheap labor out of Africa. The book at times made seem like it was good thing for slavery because it connected Europe, Africa and America. But the effects of slavery are notions of racism that are still prevalent to day in America and South America.