davis Takaki ch 3

Takaki in chapter 3 was talking about or trying to tell us that the English were going to Africa to take the Africans as slaves back to America so that they could get more work done in the fields and around the plantation.

Also Takaki talks about how that the English are degrating the Africans and making them work on thier property for life or make them become property to where they can sell them and or buy them like animals. Also they talked about slaves being white and before you never heard of their being white slaves they said that they were Irish and that the way they got them was the English soldiers would go to Ireland and kidnapp the people and send them to the ship to be sailed to America. The white slaves though were not thought of as bad as the black slaves because the whites slaves got their freedom a little quicker and also if a white slave and a black slave were caught running away they would each get their lashes and then the black slave would get extra punishment from their master.

1. How come when the blacks were freed by Jefferson they did not leave the country or move away from the South?
2. Why couldn't the Native Americans gain natural citizenship?

The reading was not that shocking and because we have heard growing up about slavery and everything that goes on with it so it was not shocking to me to hear most of the things said in this chapter and the thing that caught me was that their were white slaves i had no idea because you never are told or heard about the white slaves only the black slaves.

Zinn Ch 2 Davis, tony

The basic idea of this reading was to tell the reader how slavery came about and how slavery and racism are still strong in America and has been for such a long time.

The slavery in Americas started with and when Columbus came over to the Americas by capturing the indians and making them work for him. Then the story tells about a colony in North America and how they were struggling to make it and how they contemplated on taking the indians as salves like Columbus. Then in 1619 a million black slaves were brought from Africa to South America to be slaves and so this is what gave the people of Jamestown the idea to go to Africa to get slaves for their crops. They brought them back in by the shipfulls and sold and made profits off them. Also they were treated like property so if you were caught stealing them or they ran away they would be caught and brought back for their punishment.

1. Why would the Africans not fight when people came to their country and try to take control of them?
2. When they were on the farms or plantations why did they not rise up and fight their way out from their one or two masters?

My personal response to this is that this is terrible i mean in every country their are cases like this but now it has to stop because if we can not learn to live with each other now are we ever going to be able to live with each other and really there is no difference between anybody because we all have a ideas and good one just because someone is a different color then the majority doesnt mean you can inslave them and make them do all of your work. So we have to stop and learn from the passed so this will not happen again.