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In America slavery was a serious issue that sparked a civil war between two entities that once considered themselves a unified nation. Native Africans were a rare sight for colonizers due to the aesthetic differences between the colonizers and the indigenous tribes of Africa. The indigenous population of Africa had dark pigmented skin, which to European colonizers seemed odd, which led Europeans to see the indigenous population of Africa as primitive, and subservient to their prominent status, and led to the enslavement of the indigenous population of Africa. These slaves were not seen as people, but merely animals, they were seen as property. The Movie Glory depicts slaves during the civil war as being primitive, and uncivilized, it also depicts the ethnocentric bias towards slaves, even among Northerners in the form of fear, and repulsion, slaves were seen merely as animals, but Glory depicts the idea of progress among slaves and their assimilation and acceptance by others, Glory depicts the struggles any society endures in order to become civilized through the depiction of the 54th colored regime’s training and struggles, to represent the struggles societies endure in their progress and journey to becoming civilized.
The movie is depicted from the perspective of Colonel Shaw who is of wealthy descent. Despite being a Northerner he does not understand the colored soldiers who volunteer for his colored regime. Many Northerners and Union soldiers despite supporting the abolition of slavery still saw colored people, and slaves as subservient to themselves. Slaves and colored citizens were depicted in rags, and as being illiterate. White Northerners and Union soldiers including Colonel Shaw did not understand the behavior...

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...d bravery of the 54th regime in the battle for Fort Wagner lead to the open acceptance and allowance of colored soldiers into the Union army.
The movie Glory is entirely about progress and portrays the ethnocentric bias between a society that has asserted themselves as being superior over another subservient society. The movie portrays a certain group of colored soldiers and their progress as they fight for their rights, and to ward off discrimination, including the labels that the superior society has branded them with, including the labels of being savages, primitive, and uncivilized. The movies uses the theme of training soldiers to depict the progress, and to depict the struggles that are endured when a society that is deemed uncivilized, and primitive, tries to assert themselves, and tries to fight off discrimination imposed on them by a “superior” society.

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