I'm doing research on the apartheid in South Africa for a debate going to be held in my world geography class. I have to answer the question 'Did the History of Slavery and Imperial Colonization affect the Policy of Apartheid in South Africa.' I was assigned to be against it, meaning that I must find information to prove that the history of slavery and imperial colonization did not affect the policy of apartheid in South Africa. If anyone can help me find site with accurate data that supports my 'stand,' please reply!!! Thank you very much!
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You may want to check this:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid\n\nAnd, generally speaking, I don't think the history of slavery and colonization played a crucial role in South Africa developing such a strong system of Apartheid. Remember, other countries have a similar history in those respects without its resulting in Apartheid.
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NO EASY ANSWERS - but useful hints instead, from a (former) world history teacher. \n\n1. Think of who the slave traders wanted - mainly young men who were useful as laborers. So what would happen if a region where most people were farmers lost a lot of its strong workers? Also, think of how the people were removed, and how people would logically react. They didn't go willingly, and their families weren't happy about it. \n\n2. The examples are simply a list, and it's not useful to just copy from an email. Besides, your teacher probably used specific examples, and mine might be different. You'll find most of the anti-colonial resistance taking place between 1890 and 1960, and some examples you can look up are the Asante revolt, the Igbo Women's War, the Bambatha Uprising, the Chilembwe Revolt, the Maji-Maji Rebellion, and the Chimurenga/Second Chimurenga. You should be able to Google these or look them up in a book, or ask your school librarian and get answers fairly quickly - ones that you can remember on the upcoming test because you learned them for homework!\n\n3. Salt and gold had their uses, and more importantly, they were found in different parts of West Africa, so the people with salt traded it for gold, and vice versa. Again, not a tough one to look up yourself, and worth the effort. Try any middle school textbook chapter on precolonial Africa, and you should get a map of the salt and gold trade. \n\n4. Which defeat of Germany? Probably WWI. I don't know if Germany was defeated so much by events as by situations. The alliance against Germany included France, Russia, England and eventually the United States, and the entry of the US into WWI was important. The German u-boat sinking of the liner Lusitania triggered American entry. \n\nThe Bolshevik Revolution in Russia also stirred up a stong enemy in the east. \n\nGermany and its allies were surrounded by hostile powers and unable to get many products needed for fighting a war, including food for the soldiers. So their supply problem was also a cause of their defeat. \n\n5. The time period matters here, and you will have to filter through my ideas to find the ones that fit your class. \n\n- Developing economies grew slowly for a variety of reasons, including:\n  - colonizers made them serve the colonial market, producing less profitable goods, and/or selling them so cheaply as not to make a profit, therefore the colonized peoples never had money to spend on improving their production\n  - many colonies had labor laws that allowed colonizers to all but enslave the locals, which meant that there was little reason to educate the workforce or build for the future\n  - developed countries made and enforced rules that kept developing countries from making certain products (for example, England - which had colonized India - outlawed the production of cloth in India, which meant Indians could grow cotton, but coud only buy cloth from England, which helped the English factories and economy)\n  - Developing countries mainly produce farm, mine and fishery products, and they have to buy industrial products to make a profit, but prices for farm, mine and fishery products declined in the late 20th century, so that people in developing countries had to spend more of their production on equipment from developed economies\n  - In recent decades, developed countries lent money at interest to developing countries, which then had to pay back the interest. Large loans encouraged corruption in the developing world, and as a result the developing countries didn't, well, develop much, and so they were less and less able to pay back their growing debts. Or, for that matter, to do anything else that required money.
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The country is Lesotho, a constitutional monarchy.  When South Africa was under British rule, it was administered as a separate colony (apart from a few years) and became a its own country when colonial rule ended.  It looks like it was separate because it was too much trouble for the South African government to want to deal with in the 1870s and early 1880s, so they made the British Crown deal with it.
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If the government was going to pay descendants of former slaves, this would lead to a series of problems.\n\n1. How does the government tell who was a descendant of a former slave and who immigrated after the Civil War?\n\n2. If we are going to pay descendents of slave reparations, what about all the families (like mine) who sacrificed everything running underground railroads? These, mostly white, families often lost EVERYTHING, including their lives, when the bounty-hunters and pro-slavery forces found out who ran a station.\n\n3. What about every other indentured servant or forced laborer and their descendants?\n\n4. Who will pay for this? What about descendants of people who never owned slaves or fought against those who did?  Why should they pay?  What about those who came to America after the Civil War?  Also, since the money from the government comes from taxes, how do we know "who" exactly paid?  How do we know the descendant of a slave is just not paying more taxes to pay themselves?\n\n5. How much is the per capita reparation?  What should each person get?  Will we need, yet another, expensive bureaucracy to manage it?\n\n6. Is this a one time payment or an installment?  If so, then for how long?  Does this reparation mean other assistance programs are discontinued?  If so, which ones? Does this payment continue from generation to generation or just the current generation?  If not, why not?  If so, why?\n\n7. Should we not then demand that EVERY nation which ever held slaves or participated in their trade be forced to pay reparations?  Would it matter if they were not the same country, or a country at all, when it happened?  What about Italy who, when they were the Romans had slaves fight to the death?  What about the Greeks, or the Egyptians, or the Philistines (Palestinians), or the Syrians, or the Chinese, or pick a country? What about the Dutch who had a large role in the slave trade?  Do they not owe reparations as an accomplice in the African slavery issue?  What about the tribes in Africa who helped the Dutch get slaves?  What about those that still own slaves in Africa (Sudan is the center of modern slave trading)?\n\nThese are just a few of the questions this issue raises.
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The same can be said of the Exodus. There are no records of a massive Jewish migration out of Egypt by Moses. Christians claim, erroneously, that the Egyptians never documented a bad policy and would never document losing thousands of slaves.\n\nInterestingly enough though, maticulous records from granaries show no excessive shortages or surplus, which would support the Exodus story...\n\nIt's a book. 5% philosophy, 73% theology, 22% assorted smut and violence. 100% fiction.\n\nIncidentally, for the guy above me, that occurance was off by about 5 years. The phenomenon you are referring to happened BEFORE the birth of Jesus in the historical record.\n\n-SD-
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HEY!!!!!! Another South African here!!! Living in the UK - don't have the answers ur looking for but if u email me I would be happy to do some research for you :-)
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it talks about how whites used to treat black slaves , and it just talk about slaves lives back then and what they had to do to try and survive.its very very sad\nAPARTHEID:::\nAn official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
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Jesus died for my sins.  It was a long time ago, but it affects me NOW.  I have been saved because of what he did.  I don't say anything about slavery, it doesn't matter any more.  Blacks have been freed, free for a VERY long time, and it doesn't make a difference.  Its not comparable to my religion.  Jesus saved my soul.  I will dwell on it, its the most important thing in my life.
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I think enough has been said about the past and this compensation is going too far, people should be more concerned about the ongoing or continuing slave trade today which the media and pc brigade dont do enough to highlight.  So lets leave the past and deal with today.  The slave trade is alive and kicking and the continent still doing it is Africa (and the Middle East)\n\nNearly forgot to mention, there's the vast sex slave trade too in eastern european countries.
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I never even knew that black people fought on the confederate side.  Why is there a black history month and not a Native American History month?  Native Americans were the first choice for slaves but European disease wiped out most of them and so the Europeans turned to Africa.  So I think I need a Native American Month.  And while we are at it, German American Month and Korean American Month for my bestfriend.  And I have friends from India so they need their own month too.  Who should I contact?
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Hi. Start here : http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0503/excerpt3.html or here : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2520815.stmre :
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I've met Latinos who are of African ancestry;some of them are way darker than me and I'm African-American.  People don't seem to realize that the African slave trade didn't just exist here in the States; the slaves were also taken to Mexico, Central America, parts of South America and the Caribbean.  Unfortunately, people can be very ignorant.  Try to drop some knowledge on them when they ask stupid questions.
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For those who said no, do you know that for sure?  I found this quote in an article:\n\nHow many Americans are aware that in New Orleans over 3,000 freed slaves owned slaves? The fact is large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves. \n\nI think the topic needs more research.\n\nHere's another article:\n\nhttp://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a899fdb32fd.htm\n\nIn a society molded by highly skewed and agenda-selective presentations of history, the tightest censorship involves the fact that large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves; in fact, in numbers disproportionate to their representation in society at large. In 1860 only a small minority of whites owned slaves. According to the U.S. census report for that last year before the Civil War, there were nearly 27 million whites in the country. Some eight million of them lived in the slaveholding states.\nThe census also determined that there were fewer than 385,000 individuals who owned slaves (1). Even if all slaveholders had been white, that would amount to only 1.4 percent of whites in the country (or 4.8 percent of southern whites owning one or more slaves).\n\nIn the rare instances when the ownership of slaves by free Negroes is acknowledged in the history books, justification centers on the claim that black slave masters were simply individuals who purchased the freedom of a spouse or child from a white slaveholder and had been unable to legally manumit them. Although this did indeed happen at times, it is a misrepresentation of the majority of instances, one which is debunked by records of the period on blacks who owned slaves. These include individuals such as Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry, of Colleton District, South Carolina, who each owned 84 slaves in 1830. In fact, in 1830 a fourth of the free Negro slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves; eight owning 30 or more (2).\n\nAccording to federal census reports, on June 1, 1860 there were nearly 4.5 million Negroes in the United States, with fewer than four million of them living in the southern slaveholding states. Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves. Of this number, 10,689 lived in New Orleans. The country's leading African American historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city.\n\nTo return to the census figures quoted above, this 28 percent is certainly impressive when compared to less than 1.4 percent of all American whites and less than 4.8 percent of southern whites. The statistics show that, when free, blacks disproportionately became slave masters.\n\nThe majority of slaveholders, white and black, owned only one to five slaves. More often than not, and contrary to a century and a half of bullwhips-on-tortured-backs propaganda, black and white masters worked and ate alongside their charges; be it in house, field or workshop. The few individuals who owned 50 or more slaves were confined to the top one percent, and have been defined as slave magnates.\n\nIn 1860 there were at least six Negroes in Louisiana who owned 65 or more slaves The largest number, 152 slaves, were owned by the widow C. Richards and her son P.C. Richards, who owned a large sugar cane plantation. Another Negro slave magnate in Louisiana, with over 100 slaves, was Antoine Dubuclet, a sugar planter whose estate was valued at (in 1860 dollars) $264,000 (3). That year, the mean wealth of southern white men was $3,978 (4).\n\nIn Charleston, South Carolina in 1860 125 free Negroes owned slaves; six of them owning 10 or more. Of the $1.5 million in taxable property owned by free Negroes in Charleston, more than $300,000 represented slave holdings (5). In North Carolina 69 free Negroes were slave owners (6).\n\nIn 1860 William Ellison was South Carolina's largest Negro slaveowner. In Black Masters. A Free Family of Color in the Old South, authors Michael P. Johnson
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Help me help you... (use ADD DETAILS, or email me)... What questions do you have about this assignment? Do you need assistance finding information about abolition? Do you understand what the question is asking? What, specifically, is holding you up from finding the answers? Where are you finding yourself stuck?
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Singling people out no matter what the race, creed or color is wrong. I'm disappointed to hear that this happened especially on the elementary school level. It perhaps sent out a message, but one we are trying to avoid. As my school prepared for a MLK Day celebration one elequent speaker came to our school and said the following:\n\n(Yes, I'm paraphrasing)\n\n "In our day and age, I feel that sometimes people of my own race are bringing judgements upon themselves unnecessarily. They preach of equality, but when given the rights, want more. Yes, we cannot deny the treatment of Blacks was unacceptable. But must we dwell on the past instead of embracing the future? If we seek equality, why do we draw attention upon ourselves? Why have a "Black History Month?" Is there a "White History Month?" We are asking not to be set "a part." Yes we insist on our own month to celebrate our fine figures from the past? Shouldn't EVERY day of every month be a celebration of what these fine people did? We should live by their words, not force their word."\n\nI think what the world needs is to accept that we are more open-minded than we were 30-40 years ago. Sure, we have pockets of our population that will never be. But the change has been immense. Thank God! This speakers words spoken so elequently made so much sense to all those in that room that day. I think it brought the school together with a "sigh" of relief. All races realized we were working together.....no one is set apart. There is no need to favor a soul in our world today. We all prove who we are by being.....who we are. \n\nThank you for sharing the poem. My hope is that schools such as this, ideals such as this, practices such as this will so very soon be a thing of the distant past.
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The answers to your questions are available on the free, online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Look here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_africa\n\nHope this helps!
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And the war over slavery was bloody.  how is this god the same yesterday, today and forever?\n\nslavery is not condemned as hellish, it says,\n\n" do not become slaves of men " and then " slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh. "\n\nand how does that work out for you?  submitting to the harsh?\n\nUD:\n\nahc24- you are mad!