1. Racism and Economics of the Atlantic Slave Trade
... '] was economic, not racial; it had to do not with the color of the laborer, but the cheapness of the labor. " However, Claudius Fergus explains that Williams' reference was limited to the New World. It excluded prior enslavement of Africans by Europeans in Sicily, Spain, Portugal, and the Eastern Atlantic ... that racism towards the African people began before the slave trade's beginning in 1600. Before Africans were associated with the slave trade, the color black was literally and symbolically distasteful to Europeans. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, before 1600, it was de...
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