"The Hubris of Albion" is a brief attack on common historical stereotypes of Aficans as savages who were brought to civilization by American slave traders.
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The Hubris of Albion
"Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out."
Lord Jeffery
For as many years as America and Europe have sought repentance for their atrocities to Africa, we have also searched the annals of history to find how such a thing as slavery or concept as racial superiority could ever thrive in modern civilization. We …
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…The raw economic motivations of slave traders and the men who funded their expeditions were masked by accusations of their victims inferiority, and at the same time it was a defensive feeling of shock and difference in Europeans that targeted Africans, rather than men of lighter skin elsewhere. In reality, the propagation of slavery and the emergence of racism occurred simultaneously, and in effect reinforced a belief structure and economic plan that outlived their legitimacy.
…The raw economic motivations of slave traders and the men who funded their expeditions were masked by accusations of their victims inferiority, and at the same time it was a defensive feeling of shock and difference in Europeans that targeted Africans, rather than men of lighter skin elsewhere. In reality, the propagation of slavery and the emergence of racism occurred simultaneously, and in effect reinforced a belief structure and economic plan that outlived their legitimacy.
