CT250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Unfree Labour, Indentured Servant, White Supremacy
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Questions: according to mcnally: what motivated the strategy of racial oppression that gradually emerged in the americas? a. Instead of all other differences, skin colour was chosen. People with darker colours were seen as less civilized. Unfree labour in the americas was not initially based on race. However, eventually emerging capitalists selected a strategy of racial domination to control the labouring classes and deal with social unrest caused by exploitation. Unstable racial categories initially: existence of unfree whites and free blacks (a slave was unfree, but it had little to dowith colour of skin) Emerging capitalists sought a labour force and indigenous peoples in the americas not a sufficient foundation for labour because. Unable to coopt/unable to create comprador class because society egalitarian (classless) Capitalists turned to europe initially to secure bonded or indentured labour: convicts, kidnapped, conned white indentured servants. Ex, the irish- 300-400 years ago, they were recognized as another race.
