5/20/2023 0 Comments Staying power the history of black![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He believed ‘that there are as honest, faithfull, and conscionable people amongst them, as amongst those of Europe’.įrom about 1600, with the development of science in Europe, racism could be ‘proved’ scientifically. Richard Ligon, in his book A true & exact history of the Island of Barbados, published in 1657, wrote against the popular view. There were few who challenged this prejudiced view. From this, and from travellers’ tales, arose the stereotype of the African, as barbarous, prone to excessive sexual desire, lazy, untrustworthy and even cannibalistic. Thus the first reaction to people with black skin was to assume that they were some form of devil or monster. The English had equated blackness with death and evil centuries before they met any black people. Racism cannot be ignored in any study of the slave trade. ![]() The slave trade could not have continued without this ideology to justify it. The development of racism is linked to the slave trade. And as they were ‘not one of us’, they could be bought and sold. Africans were thought to be sub-human, uncivilised, and inferior to Europeans in every way. Home › Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery › After Slavery › The wider world › Black and white in Britain › Racist ideasĪs the slave trade developed, Europeans created a racist ideology which could be used to justify the trade. ![]()
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