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.