Transatlantic Slave Trade Oppression

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Part. 2 To fully understand the oppression people of color have faced, we need to start from the very beginning of the 600 years of oppression. In our class notes on Transatlantic Slave Trade (Class notes Transatlantic Slave Trade pt.1 and pt. 2) we learned that neighboring communities that were in a battle with each other captured people and these people were sold off. During the earlier stages of the slave trade, women were the main resource of trade. Sometime after men became the majority of people enslaved to become fishermen, laborers, and soldiers.
The first group of African people that came to the colonies were less thought of as enslaved, but they were considered indentured servants. Being an indentured servant made it possible
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Slave trade from start to finish was grueling and torturous. Slaves had to travel for miles to the coast, and most people didn’t make it the whole way. Once they made it to the coast the enslaved people were brought to a barracoon, which basically looked like a prison. The enslaved people would usually be there for a few months and were fed to pretty well in order to be fattened up to hopefully survive the voyage across the Atlantic. These enslaved people were shackled, starved, and abused. This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the amount of abuse enslaved people had to endure once they made it to the …show more content…
McIntosh states a point that it’s easier to hear about white privilege from a white person, that her article on white privilege will more like be easier be easier to publish because she is white. In class, we once discussed the issue between white women being seen as hysterical and black women being seen as angry when they are upset. This creates the idea that white women are able to get their point across easier because it’s easier to cure and live in harmony with hysteria than it is to calm down anger. White people who come to terms with their white privilege should do better understand oppression and be more aware of what they can do on a regular basis. There is a majority of white people in our American society who don’t believe in white privilege, and this is a big problem. We should have to understand that in a society where the majority of the population is white, cis-gendered citizens that people who are different are treated differently and are still being oppressed even after 100’s of