Howard Zinn: The Development Of Race-Based Slavery In America

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Their discussions are quite different due to the fact that they zoom in on topics that peek their own interest. For Zinn, he described why the development of race-based slavery in America began. He mentioned that the settlers did not know basic survival skills, like obtaining food. Therefore, they need laborers to grow and cultivate food for them specifically corn and these laborers would have to be people who were not costly to them. They used slaves from Africa because well they were easier to ‘control’ than the whites and indentured servants. Zinn focused more on the fact that these people were torn from their culture and brought here against their will, to engage in unfavorable conditions. The degree of cruelty these people faced made this

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