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In this article written by James H. Sweet, Sweet tries to go back to the root cause of how slavery actually came to be and thought of as it is today. Why were people of dark skinned complexion exploited to the extreme that they were? Why not the "lighter" colored people treated in the same manner?
As outlined in the article, a person's skin color outlined the inferiority in society. The darker the skin color the more inferior you where as a person, as a class as well as a race. White servants were not subject to hard labor because Iberians did not think of them so much as laborers but as good investments, because of the money they could receive from them and the possible religious outcomes. People of dark color were thought of as not having the education to sit the common world people. They were known as to act as "animals" eating herbs and sleeping with the woman, or sisters as the article refers, of their own kind. Also people of dark skinned were believed to be rightfully......

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