module 4a (textbook ch 2)

Question 1

(quiz) // question 1: The 3 distinct differences between Chattel Slavery and other forms of slavery are: The exceedingly rarety of slaves being able to purchase their freedom, being born into slavery, and being able to marry as slaves.

Answer 1

false

Question 2

(quiz) // question 2: Cognitive Dissonance specifically is:

• a) Denial of the truth and attempts to cover up this truth with false justification
• b) Mental tension from denial of the truth
• c) Finding ways to not have to take responsibility for horrible acts one committed
• d) All the above

Answer 2

d) all of the above

Question 3

(quiz) // question 3: This law gave people the legal right to kill, murder, stalk, and beat Black people.

Answer 3

the virginia code

Question 4

(quiz) // question 4: The New Negro Alliance was comprised of which prolific Black American scholar?

Answer 4

Belford lawson

Question 5

(quiz) // question 5: What particular group was responsible for funding and creating Human Zoos?

Answer 5

social Darwinists

Question 6

(midterm question) how is chattel slavery different than indentured servitude, slavery etc.?

Answer 6

1) the manner in which a person becomes a slave.
2) different treatment
3) different length of servitude (how long one is a slave)
4) different perception slave owners had on slaves (so if they viewed them as PROPERTY or humans)

Question 7

slave trade contributed to __% of the world’d economy.

Answer 7

30%

Question 8

(midterm question) what are the MORAL and ECONOMIC. discussions surrounding slavery?

Answer 8

MORAL
- people are treated terribly. inhumanely and it went against christian values.

ECONOMIC
- slaves were property! they were needed for the economy and contributed A LOT to the united state’s and worlds economy.

Question 9

what are african-americans still considered as?

Answer 9

they are property as stated in the constitution and to this day the 13th amendment claims prisoners as slaves.

Question 10

3/5th compromise

Answer 10

3/5 slave population would be counted toward state’s total population.
purpose: to make sure black men did not have more representation/power.

Question 11

cognitive dissonance

Answer 11

the process of the mind/cognitive stress.
unequal/unbalanced psychological stress that comes from attempting to balance when one goes against their own MORALS.
ex: when you believe in monogamy and then cheat you get:
a) stressed
b) brain goes further to created BALANCE by BLAMING someone else.
c) the more we experience this the more we try to justify our actions
d) surrounds oneself with like-minded individuals to feel better

Question 12

cognitive dissonance’s connection to slavery and MODERN DAY EXAMPLE

Answer 12

1. slavery: white people who knew slavery was wrong morally knew they were doing something wrong, but justify their actions against black people.
   2: modern: white people brushing off slavery and police brutality and incarceration.

Question 13

carl linnaeus

Answer 13

asshole.
- systema naturae: race and intelligence
classified plants, but also issue lies in attaching these classification to humans and human behavior.

Question 14

virginia casual killing act

Answer 14

you can kill your slave and it’s ok

it is traumatic because of the constant threat of death –> epigenetic/dna change.
- this is literally post traumatic slave syndrome.

Question 15

suicide and africentric relationship

Answer 15

time is cyclical so when one dies, like Ota benga, they return back to their old self/ ancestral plain.

Question 16

maafa

Answer 16

the Africentric term that describes the genocide of African peoples due to African International Slaver

Question 17

did africans sell other africans

Answer 17

no! they traded them.
In the later part of the 15th century, Europeans made contact with the continent of Africa → Europeans made contracts and trades with warring African tribes to collect their prisoners.
African communities/tribes [on the west coast of Africa] traded prisoners with Europe for furs, guns, and liquor
The chiefs of these warring tribes had no idea of the intention of these European settlers when giving them their prisoners.

Question 18

European’s main focus and their moral code

Answer 18

Europeans main focus of the 15th century – POWER & CONTROL → which produced the drive for material possessions, wealth, popular influence, and a moral code that depicted anything dark as evil and anything light as good, these Europeans immediately saw Africans as subhuman.

Question 19

WHY Europeans believed Africans would be a “cheap labor force to help them build The New World” –

Answer 19

Europeans were surprised at Africans’ ability to engage in hard labor ‘easily’ because of their decrepit moral code and idea of Manifest Destiny. Plus, Africans were some of the only people with an immune system that withstood diseases that came from europe.

Question 20

Juneteenth

Answer 20

Emancipation Proclamation signed in 1863, yet slaves in the south were not fully free until two years later on June 19, 1865. AKA Juneteenth

Question 21

economist’s dream

Answer 21

Slavery was a method/tactic for the economy and not seen as a morally wrong or a human issue (Canvas says: Economist’s Dream)

Question 22

chattel slavery

Answer 22

Began in Jamaica, Virgin Islands, Colombia, and other countries. At the height of African slavery, almost half of the world’s economy came directly or indirectly from African slave labor.

Question 23

wealth gap

Answer 23

Slavery gave southern and northern white statesman and landowners their ability to collect generational wealth. [Wealth was considered a prerequisite to political control, and later, the construction of the U.S government and Congress.] 
Wealth gap of working class Amerians today is  the direct result of a disproportionate number of White men who began accumulating wealth from African slave labor.

Question 24

Chattel Slavery was different in three distinct ways:

Answer 24

Time, Conditions, Lack of Rights.

Question 25

slaves were treated as animals

Answer 25

Grocery Example: You know when you enter a grocery store today, and head to the meat section and you see all the various parts of an animal cut and stored for consumption? How did they get there? Well, there are animal farms, with butchers and systems in place to both feed and then kill the animals and package them for sale. This is exactly the same process as Chattel slavery.
Slavery Treatment: Africans were forced fed, worked to death, beaten to death, forced to live in cages or barns, cut up and distributed piece by piece to “Scientists” of the day; forced to “breed” on thirteen to fourteen acres of Breeding Farms, further sexually exploited on a daily basis in the fields and in Slave Homes, and forced to endure inhumane living conditions on top of tending to open wounds and diseases.

Question 26

Catholic Church and their influence on slavery

Answer 26

Catholic Church (high sponsors of slave trade) created rhetoric/propoganda to continue to dehumaniza Africans
dark = bad; light = good, used this on african physical features, skin and pigmentation. 
This rhetoric is worked into religion, schools, work offices, radio, eventually television, etc.

Question 27

human zoos and social darwinism

Answer 27

• the african was seen as the midway between a human and a monkey.
  1859: PT Barnum and his human attraction

Question 28

William McGee

Answer 28

1904 St. Louis Fair.

the man behind human zoos.

Question 29

Ernest heckle

Answer 29

raving racist. wanted to prove pot were inferior to whites and also tested on poc

Question 30

Ota Benga

Answer 30

• young african man stolen and used in human zoos.
• is a pygmie (congo).
• was called the “only genuine cannibal in America” because of his death

Question 31

eugenics

Answer 31

the science of breeding better people.
term coined by Francis Galton
- forced sterilizations.

Question 32

first slaves arrived in America in

Answer 32

the early 1500s

Question 33

europeans concluded…

Answer 33

that black africans were fitted by a natural act of God to the position of permanent bondage.

Question 34

Johann Blumenbach

Answer 34

negroid, cacauzoid, mongoloid, ethiopian and malayan

• whiteness and white beauty

Question 35

textbook: Madison Grant

Answer 35

grant is a strong proponent of scientific racism.

believed in forced sterilizations and anti-immigration laws.

Question 36

phrenology

Answer 36

claim that you discovered something from looking at skulls