Browsing: The main reason we were used for labor was our physical strength and ability to endure the heat and other situations that the white indentured servants could not. Essentially

     As a people, we have been intentionally targeted and displaced for the benefit of others. Whether you believe that Africans were already on this soil in the 1600s, endured the Middle Passage during the Transatlantic Slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean, or a combination of the two, it can be agreed upon that our overall position was lowered because of someone else’s plan. Over centuries, indigenous people with indigenous lifestyles have been a target for those that desired to dominate and control the minds of the masses.