The Latino/Hispanic Class Is The Only Racial Grouping Calculated

Africans arrived in America over 400 years ago based upon a barter system, where our ancestors and many others traded and sold slaves for food, gold, or things of that nature. The first enslaved Africans arrived in the Virginia colony at Point Comfort on the James River on August 20, 1619 (Equal Justice Initiative, 2014). They were treated as indentured servants and after working their contracts for passage to Virginia, each was granted fifty acres of land and released to live free.

The origins of African slavery in North America would trace back to indentured servants which were British males who were in debt and came to the New

Slaves in Spain were mostly Native Americans. New Spain valued Native Americans because they knew the land. The Native Americans knew the land so well that farming was easy for them. Not only did the Spanish enslave Native Americans but they also used some Africans for slave labor. The Spanish colonies eventually used African slaves only because the Natives often died from diseases. The same diseases the Europeans had brought over from England. Spain also had indentured servant who would work for a couple of years. In exchange for their work they would get food, clothing and a way to the new world. New France used Africans for slaves because they could get them in large amount. The French had many plantations that requires a lot of labor and because African slaves were cheap they had lots of them.

Meanwhile in the Americas, European empires were growing, and they realized that they needed a more efficient work force. They had tried using Native Americans, but they usually died from European diseases. Europeans couldn’t work because of the diseases that the tropical climate gave them. It seemed like Africans would be the perfect solution to their problems. They were used to the tropical climate and immune to its diseases, had experience in agriculture, and there was already a market for them. This introduced the slave trade to North America, and in 1619 the first New World slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia. Most of the earlier slaves to journey the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade were from Windward Coast and Senegambia (Present-day Mauritania), but later expanded all along the coast of Africa. The Atlantic Slave Trade was also given the name “Middle Passage”, since it was the middle leg in the Triangular trade.

Currently within the United States one of the fastest growing minority population (Schwartz & Scott, 2012) is the Latinos. In 2010 Census Bureau Brief ( Ennis, Rois-Vargas, & Albert, 2011) it stated how an estimated 15 million Latino individuals were living within the United States, which is approximately about 16% of the entire U.S. population. There is one big problem with addressing the Latino population, and that is the family patterns are either misrepresented or not properly understood, due to the label of Hispanic and Latinos being placed together. These two groups may share the same spoken language of Spanish and have similar cultural ancestry but the diversity among Hispanic and Latinos (Schwartz & Scott, 2012) make generalizations about their lifestyles difficult. The term Hispanic came to be used in the 1970’s by government officials (cdc.gov, 2011) in trying to provide a diverse label on this population that had connections to speaking Spanish and the Spanish culture. Latino became more of a termed to be used when distinguishing between Mexican (Hispanics) and Latinos who descendants from Latin America such as Cuba and Puerto Rico.

In Italy, during the 1300’s, merchants acquired the first slaves. They were not from Africa though; instead they were from southeast Europe. Eventually though, the European slaves were replaced by African slaves, because Africans were considered to be the most inferior race. African slaves worked so well for the Europeans that they decided to bring them over to the New World and force them to work the rugged land for them. Spain and Portugal were the first European countries to bring slaves to the New World. The French, English, and Dutch were soon to follow. Unfortunately, the slaves were usually required to work from sun up to

Does it matter what we are called: Latino or Hispanic? Does it change who we are as people? To an extent, most people do not know the difference between either. Typically, people group both terms as one singular item. However, Hispanic and Latino racial classifications are more than a broad category for people from Spanish-speaking countries. The words connote and represent a history of colonial terminology that based its success on the failures of innocent, historically peaceful, cultural groups. Hispanic and Latino terminology are political and economic in every sense. This paper will show that colonial leanings to control and govern people’s lives have yet to culminate, even though the era of imperialism ended a century ago. The United States, although far from its heyday as the singular house of power, still manages to achieve control and influence over the imperialized minds of groups of people, specifically Hispanics and Latinos.

Africans first arrived in the area that later became the United States of America in around 1619 in the Chesapeake area. The large amount of fertile land in the area gave the settlers their biggest cash crop, which was tobacco. As time went by, more and more tobacco was being exported to England. Because of this, more labor was needed. This need for more labor was not only in the north, but in the south as well due to their mass production of cotton. This movement started the institution of slavery in America. Then, the colonies and other countries started to trade slaves and it became a business. The Royal African Company was the first slave trading company, which was started in 1672. The slaves were transported by the Middle

Latinos come in various pigmentations. Americans have a hard time classifying Latino minorities because the American society is based on race and not ethnicity. For the most part, it is easy to organize white people, because they tend to lump themselves together to form their one culture and identify as white. In the case of African Americans or black people, they tend to experience the same kind of lumping together of culture to form one racial group because they are 300 years removed from their native African culture because of slavery. With these two prominent groups of people in the United States, it is hard to classify a Latino person because a lot have grown up with their own culture and possibly not even in America. A person from Mexico has a different culture than that of someone from Spain. It may even come down to the dialects that they may speak that can cause them to separate themselves into a different ethnic group. Even with prominence politically and culturally having an impact in the United States, Latinos still get unfairly categorized, which is why ethnicity is the best choice of categorization.

Contrary to what we learned in school, the transatlantic slave trade actually began in the 1450s when the first Africans arrived in Europe. You see, slavery existed in some capacity since the beginning of human interaction. As early as 2,000 years ago, the Romans enslaved people of color as servants. Around 600 AD the Arab Muslims started enslaving Africans. However, slavery was not based on race until Europeans began slave trading with Africans. It is also worth mentioning that Africa had a slavery system that existed within the country long before the Europeans arrived. The African slavery system was based on tribal ethnicities and economic status as thousands of Africans were captured during various wars between African nations and sold into slavery. In 1440, Spanish and Portuguese explorers sailed

The first Africans brought in more or less as an experiment. Africans tended to share the same resistance to diseases that Europeans did, they were familiar with the types of farming and crops, and they tolerated the hot conditions well. Originally, it was a matter of a ship going to western Africa and attempting to capture or trade for enough slaves to fill their holds. As the trade increased, it was impossible for the Europeans to capture enough slaves on their own. They began to work with African agents, that tribal leaders captured prisoners from other tribes to sell to the Europeans. This became a big and efficient business, carrying millions to the west. These goods from Europe were carried to Africa and traded for slaves. When England decided to abolish slavery, this cut into the trade but did not end it. Other, European nations were still deriving profits, and had no interest in stopping. Changing technology, damaged ecosystems, increase of 'home grown' slaves all cut down on the demand

The Reconquista was the main reason why these African Americans were captured and enslaved. The shrine retaking of the Iberian peninsula set the wave of transatlantic slave system. The Portuguese got rid of muslim dictators much sooner than the Spanish. While doing this the Portuguese acquired cannon to their vessels, and established plantation of the coats of western Africa. They then raided African communities for captives and soon these very same captives were replacing the other slaves in places like Portugal, Spain, and France. If it weren 't for the Portuguese this africanization of the trade in enslaved humans would not have

The “Americanization” process of slaves brought to America is one that has been debated. Some say the slaves brought to America quickly abandoned most of their African ways and adopted the dominant culture against those who stress the continuing African cultural legacy among black Americans. The Africans that were brought to America involuntarily essentially remained Africans at heart. The descendants of Africans that were brought to America were not like the original Africans or white Americans. They were heavily influenced by the behavior of their masters but maintained some of their African culture. They formed a new culture known as African-American.

In the 1500s to 1900s, Africans were taken from Africa and brought across the Atlantic Ocean where they were traded and sold for labor in the New World, which included the Caribbean Islands, and North and South America. Around the 1600s, the Europeans captured and bought slaves, which began the Atlantic Slave trade and the forced migration of about 24 million people from Africa.

African American immigration history comes with slavery history in the England colony of Jamestown, Virginia. In 1619, colonist started plantation and they needed cheap labor forces to do their job. So, colonist paid companies and ships that did kidnap Africans and bring spices from Africa. Africans did most hardest work and they lived on worst environments arounds colonist community. Slavery was legalized by law in 1645 and it ended during Civil War.