Black history month.
2006-10-15 04:25:44 · 6 answers · asked by sunil j 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
besides all of the above, don't leave it how slaves were treated as livestock. Traded and sold. They could be traded from their family and loved ones at any time. Can you imagine falling in love, marrying, having children and the plantation owner deciding to trade your husband or wife for another...and then forcing you to breed with them for the sake of a "stronger" slave. Not to mention children were also sold and traded regularly. Horrid horrid atrocity.
2006-10-15 04:39:29 · answer #1 · answered by daisylane 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Economics. It was profitable for all involved. Including the Africans who took the captives originally. Owners got cheap labor, traders got a valuable cargo for an otherwise useless leg of their journey, and governements got buckets of tax revenue from the sales. Many will tell you that it was based on racism, which is just worng. Any claim that it was rooted in racism is revisionist history. Anti-black racism in the Americas arose from slavery, not the other way around.
2006-10-15 11:31:06 · answer #2 · answered by juicy_wishun 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
jackb is correct
Black History Month is in February NOt October
2006-10-15 11:33:14 · answer #3 · answered by Mopar Muscle Gal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was all about greed.
the greed of the tribal leaders who sold thier own people in the first place (lets not forget that) and the greed of the plantation owners who wanted all that free labor.
2006-10-15 11:28:00 · answer #4 · answered by alanc_59 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rape, whippings,hangings,selling and buying another human being. Shall I go on? How about the demeaning of,shall we say,other ethnic groups.
2006-10-15 11:33:08 · answer #5 · answered by Daryl C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm pretty sure bhm is Feb
2006-10-15 11:28:30 · answer #6 · answered by jack b 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋