FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Read 8 paragraphs in the second half of the article, beginning with the following:But as historian Winthrop Jordan argues, the English had deep beliefs about race and color that allowed them to keep slaves while also talking about freedom in ways that the Spanish and Portuguese did not.and ending with:Even before the English began any sort of trade with Africans, “black” had a negative connotation. When English travelers and explorers finally met people with dark skin, “black” was much more than just a color.Which selection BEST explains the idea that the British had a long history of seeing black as a negative color?
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Long before they found that some men were black, Englishmen found in the idea of blackness a way of expressing some of their most ingrained values.
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The impact of the Negro’s color was the more powerful upon Englishmen ____ because England’s principal contact with Africans came in West Africa and the Congo where men were not merely dark but almost literally black ____
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Enslaving Africans may have begun as an economic idea. But it was supported by racist ideas for more than 200 years.
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Jordan is saying that the idea that black was evil was a part of English thought since at least 1550.
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