SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Moral Evil, Emancipation Proclamation
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The united states, with more than 34 million blacks, has the eighth-largest black population in the world; only brazil, congo, ethiopia, nigeria, south africa, sudan, and tanzania have larger black populations. Today, we rarely remember these tribal or ethnic variations among the descendants of the. Africans in the way we customarily do among europeans. Slavery: for nearly half of u. s. history, slavery was not only tolerated but legally protected by the u. s. Constitution as interpreted by the u. s. supreme court. 11)learning to read or write: numerous ideologies were developed to justify the enslavement of africans. Slaves were viewed like children that needed the guidance of their white slave owners to survive. Africans were also described as subhuman in order to legitimate their enslavement: further, a slaveholder wanting to do god"s work on earth would encourage the slave church, finding it functional in dominating the slaves. The christianity to which the slaves were introduced stressed obeying their owner.