What are the connections and differences between Slavery and Racism?

Question

add: Slavery + liberty

Answer 1

Slavery is a fact of how an individual is held and required to work for his/her master. Racism is obnoxious behavior toward an individual or group of individuals based on their race. There is some speculation that once a group of people has been held in slavery, it is easier for others to treat them in a racist way. It is also true that the same prejudice which would allow one to hold a human being in slavery could also express itself in racist behavior.

Answer 2

Originally, slavery had nothing to do with racism either in the ancient world or in colonial North America, but simply existed as an economic arrangement favoring those who enslaved forced labor. In the classical world, victorious armies often enslaved captives of war. Moreover, debtors who could not work off their debts found themselves sold into slavery. However, when a group of people with identifiable racial characteristics had been in slavery for a several generations, their physical characteristics helped them be more easily identified as slaves:

---Case in point from ancient times: Joseph, of biblical fame, was sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers. By the time the Phorah's daughter found Moses in the bullrushes, the Egyptians identified the Hebrews as a slave people. The Greeks and Romans also used slave labor. Quite often their slaves were better educated than their masters and could often read and write when their masters could not. In the New Testament, Saint Paul admonished his readers that that there is no difference between Jew and Greek and slave and master.

---Similarly, originally, the Colonists tried to use the Native Americans as slave labor to supplement indentured servants, who worked off their term of servitude, which was usually a period of seven years. The Indians, however, made poor slaves since they could easily escape back to their own families. Hence, a lucrative slave trade developed between Africa and the New World.

Answer 3

The vast extent of the N. American enslavement of Africans was made possible by the casual and predominantly uncontested racism prevalent at the time. Slavery in history until that point usually was contained to the defeat of one population by another and sustained in much the same ways, using military, religious, and cultural "power" to reinforce the status quo. However, historically thogh the empires of old were reliant on slavery the slave populations themselves were gathered from all reaches of the empire and extracted from the least dominate and lower castes from each and not relegated to one specific and racially different population, such as the enslaved west Africans. Fun Fact: many Irish, Scots, and Welsh were bound and sold as slaves for various reasons, mostly related to owing money to a rich English landowner however all North American port towns had fraternities of ethnicities who brought and freed their counterparts upon disembarkment, either to work as indentured servants or to live completely free lives, if they were lucky. If they were unlucky enough to land in the Caribean they were usually forced into piracy or other underpriveleged work.

Answer 4

Slavery was the act of bondage of a person or people against their will.

Racism is a belief or ideology that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially to distinguish it as being either superior or inferior to another race or races.

So racism actually covers all races, creeds & colors, not just whites and blacks.

So while there is some correlation to slavery racism is a completely different subject than slavery.

Answer 5

Being liberited from salvery is different than relating slavery and racism

relating slavery and racism is what ignorant people do ..... blacks owned slaves also and also sold and traded slaves .... whites helped slaves excape and some treated their slaves well .... and some not

people don't read their history just blame sad but true and not just about this issue

Think how Al Sharpton felt when he found out his family owened slaves something he had prosted against for many years

being freed from a being a slave is being free

Alot forget Abe Lincoln signed a bill for slave to be freed then he was killed

Answer 6

Slavery is the ownership of another human being for the purpose of labor, etc. Racism is the hatred of a particular people based upon their race. They do not necessarily have to have a connection, since most slave owners were probably not racists, just lazy. Racist hate out of fear of others.

Answer 7

Usually, people are enslaved because they are enemies of a state or empire and have been defeated in war. With the Africans, it was economic. People both black and white were paid to capture and transport African people to areas where they were enslaved to plantations to work in the new world.
Racism is caused not only by ethnocentrism, but also hatred caused by economic, political and social attitudes based on envy, jealousy or learned behavior. The learned behavior can be the result of past experiences. California's prisons are full of gangs whose memberships are based on race. And older Chinese people who remember the war are not too friendly with the Japanese.

Answer 8

Slavery implies a complete despise towards race, origin, or religion. There's not necessarily a feeling of hate.
Whereas racism does imply a feeling of repulsion, or antipathy.

Answer 9

slavery is when a person is owned and controlled by another (white plantation owners-black slaves) and racism is the way white ppl look at black ppl like negative stereotypes but racisms exists in other races as well not just black and white

Answer 10

Slavery has been around way earlier the 1800s. It starts off by de-humanizing those you opt to enslave. once you do no longer think of of them as human beings, it makes it greater convenient to very own them.