Racism And The American Revolution

The American revolution is considered one of the greatest triumph in America rich and proud history. That american colonist were standing up to the tyrannical reign of the british empire for Freedom. But that right to freedom exclude the slaves who were the ones who truly deserved freedom in all aspects. What the colonist wanted was an economic freedom since they felt that the british didn’t have the right to govern taxes on the 13 colonies and even if they did want personable freedom it never would have included slavery. Freedom was economic and the institution of slavery allowed them to have this freedom by lowering the status of slaves to category of possession. It allowed them to think slaves worthy of freedom they craved economically
modern African American stereotypes are linked to the racism of These laws made it that colonist stayed on top and the slaves stayed on the bottom made it so the couldn’t progress socially and give slaves hope. They could no longer own slaves or servants so they couldn’t have an economic advantage. Possessing a gun in the fear if they were freed that might massacre the whites. Marriage was not recognizable so families could be broken apart even if one partner was free and the other was not their children could be sold become they were an offspring of a slave therefore they were their masters property. Delegating a human being as property made slaves subservient and not entitled to freedom within the american system. others in the community to uphold this standard because that has been subconsciously integrated in their mind for generations within their community or outside it. It was beneficial for the white community to have this system of racism because it gave them excuse to lose their humanity in dealing with slaves they could whip them to the bone,Rape the women, split families apart, commit murder and indicated these thoughts for generation so you can keep control and few people few people question