The History class that we are talking this Spring Semester has shown us that discrimination is one of the reasons why poverty existed and exists nowadays.
At the beginning of the 16th century, when the Atlantic System started developing, the Spanish and Portuguese wanted to take control over America and Africa. They wanted to take all the expensive raw materials, such as Gold, Silver and others like Sugar and Fruits to Europe. For that, they would need to have people to do this handwork, so they started trading millions of millions of black people, denominated “slaves” from Africa to America.
These slaves were forced to work and they were discriminated by their color skin. We can see that the majority, or all the slaves at that era were blacks coming from Africa. They lived in really bad conditions, had not money and were not paid. Just because they were black Africans slaves, they had to work.
For example in the Saint Dominguez, Dominican Republic nowadays, 2/3 of the population were black slaves from Africa. They were forced to work in sugar plantations, and even though they were the majority, they had to work hard, be discriminated and impossible for them to find the way that let them get out of poverty. So, discrimination against blacks leads to them to be poor.
At the beginning of the 16th century, when the Atlantic System started developing, the Spanish and Portuguese wanted to take control over America and Africa. They wanted to take all the expensive raw materials, such as Gold, Silver and others like Sugar and Fruits to Europe. For that, they would need to have people to do this handwork, so they started trading millions of millions of black people, denominated “slaves” from Africa to America.
These slaves were forced to work and they were discriminated by their color skin. We can see that the majority, or all the slaves at that era were blacks coming from Africa. They lived in really bad conditions, had not money and were not paid. Just because they were black Africans slaves, they had to work.
For example in the Saint Dominguez, Dominican Republic nowadays, 2/3 of the population were black slaves from Africa. They were forced to work in sugar plantations, and even though they were the majority, they had to work hard, be discriminated and impossible for them to find the way that let them get out of poverty. So, discrimination against blacks leads to them to be poor.