Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on “The seasoning process as applied to African slaves”
. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A five page paper which looks at the acculturation process known as seasoning by which African captives were psychologically subjugated in order to ensure their cultural dislocation and their acceptance of the slave system, and the effect this had both on the African nations of the time and the later development of the Black American community.
Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JL5_JLseason.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
development of the Black American community. Bibliography lists 3 sources. JLseason.rtf "The seasoning process as applied to African slaves" Research Compiled for Enterprises Inc
By , January 2013 To Use This Report Correctly, Please
The seasoning process, as applied to the treatment of plantation slaves, was designed to ensure not only that the slaves would become totally dependent upon the dictates of their owners
but also to destroy the cultural links which the slaves had with their former homelands. In the West African kingdoms which provided one of the major source of slaves at
the height of the triangle trade, slavery was part of the indigenous culture; however, the motivation behind African domestic slavery was for the main part political, and intricately bound up
with the way in which the capture of those from neighbouring tribes would allocate bargaining power to the captors; it was not necessary to impose a process of acculturation on
the slaves in order to ensure their total obedience.
However, once slavery was extended to Europe and the Americas, there was a perception amongst the white slave-owners that to allow black slaves to maintain their
...