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Assignment - History Question
Description - One page reflection about Race, Homework instructions -
This one-page reflection asks you to explore the meaning and function of race as it developed in colonial North America in the 17th and 18th centuries. Remember to include historical examples to support your definition. Topics to consider include:
The development of slave codes that defined race as a category of identity to create a system of exploitative labor in England's North American colonies.
The function of race in establishing an unequal relationship to property, political representation, and legal protection between Euro-American and African-American colonists.
The creation of a state-sponsored system of slavery that supported and catalyzed the expansion of a global economy dominated by European empires.
The function of slavery in fueling the development of the industries, markets, principles, and practices associated with capitalism and capital accumulation.
The culture of race that diverse Africans and their descendants innovated as an empowering and collectivizing source of group identity, mutual support, resiliency, and resistance.
The "science" of race that was conceived in the late eighteenth century to justify race-based slavery and to represent coerced labor as the expression of "natural" racial hierarchies.