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Laws and Acts During Antonio's, a Slave, Life
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Antonio Acquires Land -- PART TWO --
Unfortunately, many laws and acts passed by the English Men, slowly diminished the rights and humanization of the African, and drew the line of segregation across the young colonies of the New World. -
Antonio Acquires Land -- PART ONE --
At this point in time, the African could still have land, and be free as the White Man for the seeds of discrimination had not fully matured in the new colonies. This is illustrated when Antonio, an African, can go to a White Man and say that he has now ownership of some of the White Man’s land. By 1650 he has now 250 acres, cattle, and two servants. Wow! Surprising isn’t it? Antonio has “carved a niche”, as said in Mastering the New World-Antonio. -
Act I -- PART ONE --
This Act established that Slave Masters could kill their slaves in order to "correct their slaves." This Act dehumanized the Slaves (who were mostly Africans). It also put fear into other slaves. Fear is a very influential emotion, and many Englishmen used this emotion to their advantage. Slave Owners would publicly kill a disobedient slave, with other slaves watching, to show this was the punishment for bad behavior. -
Act I -- PART TWO --
This act also showed that the white men were the higher race. This is also known as White Supremacy. -
Act IV -- PART ONE --
This Act said that Africans and Native Americans could not buy Christian Servants. Africans and N.A. had to buy slaves "from their own nation” (as mentioned in the Act.) This Act, like the acts before, showed the White men was higher than other "races" and that THEY could buy Christian servants for their work, while Africans and N.A. had to buy their own for servants. -
Act IV -- PART TWO --
So even if an African could still earn enough money to buy a servant, for discrimination and racism against Africans was starting to take place and put its roots into the English colonies, he/she (mostly males, since females were, like Africans, considered not as “high” as the rich Englishmen) would not be able to buy a white man for their work, but only a Indian, or “Negro.” This is a direct way to separate the levels of the races. -
Chapter IV -- PART TWO --
The African is the prisoner; the cell is discrimination, the outside if freedom and the jail itself is the society of White Englishmen law makers. The Chapter represents the jail wall because it restrains the prisoner from escaping and having any advantage of power to break through and make it to the outside, which represents freedom in this metaphor. -
Chapter XXII -- PART TWO --
The Chapter finished the remaining “Human” in the African living in the New World Colonies. The diminishing progress of the African has been completed and there are two races living in the New World, the powerful White Men, and the Africans living mostly as slaves, to be worked to death and hated. -
Chapter XXII -- PART ONE --
Chapter XXII declares that all Negro, Mulatto, and Indian slaves to be property. This Chapter was the hammer crashing down upon the Society and Rights of the African. Since most of the Africans living in the colonies as servants, they are now property. From freemen and women, to men and women facing discrimination, to servants, to now property. The African has been treated poorly, segregated, discriminated, hated and despised, and now most of them are property. -
Chapter IV -- PART ONE --
Chapter IV declared that all “Free men of color” (as said in the Chapter) could not hold office. This Chapter had many affects on the Africans. Since they could not hold office, they had NO power, and, therefore, could not stop any more discrimination in the forms of laws and acts, from being put into place. This Chapter can also be illustrated by a jail door.
