Origins Of Race Dbq Essay

Origins of Race DBQ

Race was an idea founded in the mid-17th Century in Europe that expanded across the globe and brought the idea of enslavement of other people who were seen as “inferior” from different countries like Africa and sold for labor. This brought up justification and reasons for race which continued for many years. Race was considered a group and category that was used to “organize” people and people had many reasons for justifying it. The origins of race being justified and defended by others depended on economic reasons, which is on the slave trade and others becoming wealthy from it, which led to social reasons depending on your status and where you came from during this time period for example if you were a

Economic ideas of race were from those who wanted to run a business or make a profit used race and inferior race ideas to support and continue doing inhuman things. According to Document One, the African Slave Trade was practiced by many countries and people and was considered acceptable for Europeans to buy and sell African Americans since it brought profit and money to many in different ways since they were considered “below” everyone else due to their looks and background. This document supports the idea of race being economic and justifies it by explaining race is a good thing since it allows Europeans to become wealthy buying and selling slaves since they all believed for enslavement to happen since it was part of their “race,” bringing economic reasons and justifications for race. This is also shown in Document 7 where the costs of slaves have changed and how living in new colonies like Virginia it’s impossible to live without them, and that race is based around slave trade and who’s inferior to the “whites” since without that,

Scientific reasons for race and how it doesn’t correlate to race is shown in Document 5 that different human species should be divided into four groups based on their alleged characteristics and mark themselves with certain things like paints or garments. The document is trying to explain race and categorization of races through the people’s supposed characteristics and only using four groups, proving the correlation between race and scientific reasoning doesn’t work. Also, in Document 10, it’s explained that the four race categories are all “degenerate” forms to “God’s original creation,” and were classified biologically into different groups who were non-Caucasian. This document also explains that race and scientific reasoning does not correlate because it talks about how other races are “downgraded” versions of white and just split them into groups just by looks using colors, creating these unrealistic races with colors, without taking into account any physical scientific reasoning, proving there’s no correlation between race and scientific reasoning, that it was just led on by social and economic reasons. Lastly, in Document 11’s section, it explains that race doesn’t explain human variation and that us humans have a