How The European Settlers Further Oppressed The Native African?

How the European Settlers Further Oppressed the Native Africans

In the last few readings and cases studies, women and the peasant farmers were the subject and target of much of the white European aggression. The whites saw the women and peasants as minor threats to their occupation of the land and used this idea to further the oppression in African states.

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In the Orange Free State the main target of the white oppression of blacks were women. Women were subjected to mental and physical abuse routinely in their everyday lives. To see that there were documented accounts of rape by police men and physical brutality towards women for simply not complying to the regulations

They whites wanted to crush this uprising before it gained momentum and took over the white government. There were several factors that the blacks had going for their side. One main factor was the number of natives compared to the whites. Even though the blacks had 4,000 casualties in the rebellion, they still heavily outnumbered the white oppressors.

There was main major flaw that the blacks had in their resistance in the Bambatha Rebellion. The rebellion was made up of mainly peasant workers. They lacked complete involvement of the black population. There were many that had steady employment and were making decent wages. This is why the rebellion failed. When there is a reluctance in a population to rebel, the task is many times cut short of its goals.

There were many instances in which there were symbolic actions against the whites. An example is when the blacks were killing all of the white animals in protest. This may have had an impact on unifying the blacks but had little or no impact on the views of the whites. The Bambatha Rebellion could have been a huge success for the black community but with out the full support of the blacks, it was short

When someone is treated a certain way and told that they are not equal to someone else because of the color of their skin they begin to believe it. This is why apartheid lasted as long as it did. For generations this was commonplace for the native South Africans. Once it has been etched in to the minds of one generation that they are unequal, it is passed down to the next. The same is true on the other side’s view. If a white child is raised in the atmosphere that it is acceptable to oppress a race of people, they continue on with the tradition. The ideals of one generation are easily passed down to the next and then to the next after that. This can be compared to our own American history of the South and its practice of slavery and then segregation. For centuries whites were taught that the African American should “know his place” in