SOCL 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Miscegenation, Ethnocentrism, Pseudoscience
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Background literature and issues of slavery: africans were brought everywhere else that had slavery, but only new world exhibited patterns of racial discrimination and clear cut racial categories. In spanish and portuguese territories, latin culture protected the black slave. The (cid:272)hu(cid:396)(cid:272)h"s i(cid:374)siste(cid:374)(cid:272)e o(cid:374) the (cid:373)o(cid:396)al pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)alit(cid:455) of the sla(cid:448)e, p(cid:396)e(cid:448)ious experiences w iberian slavery, and heritage of roman law the prevented abuse a(cid:374)d loss of (cid:271)la(cid:272)k ppl"s hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) and personality rights that existed in new world. There were no laws, church influences, customs, or state in english colonies that prevented planters to exercise total dominance over slaves. Latin slavery, however, followed moral guidance of church, the authoritarian personal interest in the colonies showed by spanish monarchs, and slave laws themselves. Old world slave systems all thought slave was unfortunate creature but nonetheless human; few societies outside n america that denied basic humanity of slaves.