African and Native American Slavery
The 1500's, a time of discovery, was when the
Europeans came to dominate most of the New World. The
Europeans traveled to Africa and captured Africans to help
develop their land and satisfy their need for power. I feel
that the treatment of the Indians and Africans by the
Europeans was completely unjustifiable. While the Indians
and Africans were less technologically advanced and the
Europeans were uneducated, in this particular field, nothing
can compensate for the actions of the Europeans.
As Europeans began to settle new lands they began
their exploration of the foreign worlds. What they found
was the opposite of what they expected. They found what
they thought was a new breed of humans. In reality they
were just Native Americans. These Indians were less
technologically advanced than the Europeans. They also
worshipped different and multiple gods and ate different
English: A collage of Native Americans dressed in ...
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Cute Indian Woman Sittingfoods. Europeans saw this as barbaric, so they treated them
as barbarians.
In the beginning Native Americans hadn't the faintest
idea of what the Europeans had in mind when they said
trade. They figured that when the White Man came and
showed all that hospitality they meant it. Of course, they
didn't, the Europeans captured the Indians to be used as
slaves. They were also slaughtered and raped because of
resistance to leave their land. If any Indians refused to
leave their land they would be killed. The women were raped
for sick and disgusting reasons. Europeans didn't feel that
the women, or men for that matter, were worth anything as
humans so they were beat and raped without any thought
about what they might be doing.
As we watched the movie Roots, I noticed a part in the
movie where they were on a ship and a man brings...