"The East Africa Protectorate"
By Charles Eliot 1905
http://books.google.com/books?id=dJMoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA102
.."Such conditions occur elsewhere between races who are more or less on the same footing, as, for instance, Europeans and Chinese, but they are probably not found united in any other case where one race is so indisputably inferior. In Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania the native race tends to disappear, or has disappeared altogether. In the Spanish and Portuguese parts of America a hybrid race has been formed. In North America the Indian tends to disappear, but also to some extent mingles with the whites, and a strain of Indian blood is not, like negro blood, regarded as a disgrace. Nearly all the races of modern Europe and Asia are the result of fusions between conquerors and conquered, and the weaker elements have been eliminated by slaughter or breeding, or by both combined. But the African has hitherto shown no sign, either in his own continent or in America, of yielding to either process".
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"From Indentured Servitude to Racial Slavery"
'We sometimes imagine that such oppressive laws were put quickly into full force by greedy landowners. But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one person at a time, one law at a time, even one colony at a time.'
"All servants imported and brought into the Country. . . who were not Christians in their native Country. . . shall be accounted and be slaves. All Negro, mulatto and Indian slaves within this dominion. . . shall be held to be real estate. If any slave resists his master. . . correcting such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction. . . the master shall be free of all punishment. . . as if such accident never happened."
- Virginia General Assembly declaration, 1705
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr3.html
Ambassadors, Explorers, and Allies: A
Study of African-European Diplomatic
Relationships, 1400-1600
Andrea Felber Seligman
"The general documented ability of these African kingdoms to maintain initial political and economic relations with Europe on an equal footing is an important example for Africa and the world today of diplomacy that worked"
http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=curej
White Slavery in Colonial America pt.2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiEeok1EEl0
Racism - A History
Looking at Scientific Racism, invented during the 19th century, an ideology that drew on now discredited practices such as phrenology and provided an ideological justification for racism and slavery. These theories ultimately led to eugenics and Nazi racial policies of the master race. Some upsetting scenes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4teqcJLufQ
Nice vid. But you fail to mention that that equal relationship was broken when 2 white indentured servants & 1 black indentured survant working for the same master ran away from there duties, that is a violation of their contract of there servitude. When caught the 2 white men got 20 lashes a piece. The black man was given servitude for LIFE. That's what set the tone for racial slavery (along with the Pope's decree to make racial slavery good in the sight of God)
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