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Highlight the main points Eric Williams made in his article "The Origin of Negro Slavery," and reflect on the lessons you learnt from the chapter in terms of how lowly paid workers are treated on modern day's capitalist economy.

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Describe Olaudah Equiano's experiences with enslavement and reflect on how you would have reacted if you were in Equiano's position.

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Running Head: ORIGIN OF NEGRO SLAVERY

Origin of Negro Slavery
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ORIGIN OF NEGRO SLAVERY
Origin of Negro Slavery
According to Eric Williams, slavery in the Caribbean region was regarded to be a Negro
thing which labelled what was an economic phenomenon as a racial twist. The first kind of
forced labor in the New World did not involve the Negros but rather the Indians who were
subjected to excessive work and conditions that led to them contracting diseases. France and
England adopted the Spanish way of enslaving Indians who refused to accept Christianity and
unlike in the Negro case the primary interest was imperialism (Williams, 1971). Although in

England Indians were used as slaves, this slavery was considered unprofitable and inefficient. On
realizing that one Negro was equivalent to four Indians, the Spaniards stole Negroes from Africa
through planned voya...


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