Saturday, October 1, 2016




     Hello, 
                Race tension and discrimination between whites and African Americans was not in colonial America at the start. The colonists initially relied on indentured servants and enslaved American Indians to do the manual labor required to sustain. This slowly began to change as indentured servitude began to fall out of favor after the Bacon rebellion, outlawing most indentured servitude. In search of source of labor, the colonists began tapping into the already present slave trade in West Africa. The colonists began shipping these slaves over to the Americas in the thousands. Even when these Africans slaves first arrived there were treated with respect and had some rights, but as time went on and the slaves became more and more valuable they lost their rights. Colonists no longer saw the slaves as people anymore, but saw them as a commodity. The colonists began passing laws that secured their power of the slaves, and in turn stripped them of things that made them human. This is truly when race discrimination of the African Americans started, as the colonists stripped them of their rights and used them for profit.


Article used http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-02-03.htm

2 comments:

  1. Great post! Racial discrimination started way back in colonial times when the colonists exploited the African slaves to their advantage. What do you think would have happened if indentured servitude was never outlawed - would we still have exported and relied on slaves?

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  2. great post!! You did a great job explaining what your article was on, and you also wrote a very good explaination of how race effected colonial times!!

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