When did segregation start ?

Question

Yes thats right. When did it Start not Stop but Start....

Im having a bit of a debate with my friend here and we cant come to a conclusion

The way I look at it is ;Segregation started when the first slave stepped off the boat or honestly it first started when they loaded that first boat and put Africans at the bottom while the others were at the top,but he will have you too believe that it didn't start until after the first law was passed.

Answer 1

Way back in Biblical times. Not just with the slaves in America. Even in free states there was segregation. Segregation was rampant throughout the world since people have been around.
It exists even today. It started when one guy saw another looked different.

Answer 2

Segregation? You mean in America? Well, that began after the reconstruction when the Jim Crow Laws were enacted by individual states. Before that segregation was a daily reality, but never legislated against by laws.
Though there has always been policies of segragation....the Jews were segregated in England and other countries during the time of the first Black Plague, and even before that we find instances of segregation of different cultures in Egypt, and further back than that in some of what we know about from ancient Mesopotamia.
Segregation of women, religious persons (priests, priestesses), lepers, etc. has been around in some cultures from the earliest recorded history.

Answer 3

Well, the first segregation started with the roman empire. Then the Nazis started shipping Jews to camps. And the segregation in America started with the Jim Crow laws. It started a little bit after slavery. I say about early 1960's. 1964 is most accurate though.

Answer 4

I think i see how your debating this.

Technically it wasnt segregation until the Jim Crow Laws took effect and the end of Reconstruction.

However during slavery it was called segregation, it was called slavery. But people were still segregated

Id say segregtion began in 1619 when the first slave ship arrived. Because slavery was just enhanced segregation.

Answer 5

It started in Europe. Whether feudalism or roots to ancient Greece and Rome, or even in class consciousness of european colonists--people had a place in the social pecking order. We have some vestiges of that today in the military--non-fraternization rules that separate officers (gentlemen) and enlisted ranks (commoners). Europe, and Africa for that matter (remember that many of the slaves brought to the Americas were already enslaved by Africans), had a place for slavery that went back to very ancient times. While some malign Christians for justifying slavery by Bible passages, secularists justified slavery from classical Greek and Roman precedents, the same precendents that gave us institutional models like the senate and a republican form of government.

May I suggest, as a very good illustration, the movie The Mask of Zorro. Anthony Hopkins' character (Don Diego de la Vega) illustrates class when coaching Antonio Banderas' character (Alejandro Murrieta) to meet Stuart Wilson's character (Don Rafael Montero). Diego explained how he could be present and not noticed by Montero because Montero was class conscious, "and would never look a servant in the eye". Later, when Diego confronts Montero, Montero, good Spanish Don (English "lord") that he is exclaims a criticism of Diego, "You betrayed your class!"

American "segregation" may have officially began with a "separate but equal" ruling, but actually was rooted in class consciousness that came primarily from Europe.

Answer 6

Good question. Segregation started when private property system started. It started during slavery, then during feudalism, of course, today in the age of capitalism. The rich and the poor, the educated and the illiterate, the have and the have not, the black Vs, white, etc...
are all the product of private ownership segregation.

Answer 7

In the US it started when slaves were brought to the colonies. At that time it was total segregation. As time passed and battles fought the segregation grew less and less an issue.

Answer 8

Plessy v. Ferguson 1896- a Supreme Court decision that legalized segregation of seperate but equal facilities.

Answer 9

since the beginning of this country.Negroes have always been segregated from whites. till the fifty's
do you know that theirs five times more KKK members up north then in the south right now.did you know that over 1000 Negroes were murdered.Hung from lampposts in new york city alone during the civil war.10s of 1000s of Negroes were murdered by Yankee civilians. during that war.did you know that Lincoln said he was sending ALL Negroes to south America after the war. he called it colonization.did you know that general Grant said he would never let his Negroes go free. that good help was to hard to find.did you know that the civil war was not over slavery.and my school was fine till the ****** got in. they tried to beat me up for no reason. trashed my car.pulled a pistol on me in the bathroom for no reason just because they were new to a white school.they were very strange and wierd. violent people.

Answer 10

After Reconstruction didn't work, and Jim
Crow came in...