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A 5 page analysis of three articles on the origins of
slavery. Eric Williams, Winthrop D. Jordan and David Brion Davis offer three contrasting views on the origins of slavery and how slavery interacted with the development of racism. While each view is logical and based on historical fact, the three perspectives differ considerably in their basic premise. The writer discusses each while analyzing their similarities and differences. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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in their basic premise. Williams feels that slavery resulted purely due to economic factors that arose from the development of capitalism and that racism was a secondary effect that was
caused by slavery. Jordan, on the other hand, feels that slavery had intellectual and psychological roots that created racist feelings that helped to promulgate the spread of slavery, although he
does not dispute that there was also an economic factor. A third view is offered by Davis that takes a wider outlook then either Williams or Jordan. Looking beyond
the development of slavery in the English colonies, Davis examines the role of slavery in the medieval Mediterranean. This research reveals that slavery at this time was not exclusively African.
Davis traces the development of slavery to the New World, but unlike Williams or Jordan, he does not place emphasis on either racial prejudice or economic factors. Rather Davis sees
a pattern of circumstances that occurred both chronologically and coincidentally that impacted its development. An examination of these viewpoints will reveal that all three historians are essentially correct in their
observations. However, as to which view represents the most accurate model of development of slavery, this depends, at least partially, on the geographical area and time period under discussion.
Eric Williams Williams begins his argument by pointing out that "unfree labor" in the New World was not exclusively African. It was "brown, white, black and yellow; Catholic, Protestant
and pagan" (Williams 3). The first people to be enslaved in the New World were not Africans, but Native Americans. However, as Williams points out, American Indians rapidly succumbed for
a variety of reasons. Insufficient diet, enormous demands for labor, lack of immunity to European disease, and a basic inability to adjust themselves to the conditions of slavery after having
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