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I learned that European people were enslaved before black people were. I wonder when slavery started in the first place?

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This information matters today by reminding us that we are not exempt from our legacy--even though we did not perpetuate racial violence, we live in a system that allows it and we need to address that.

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Beliefs talked about in this video are still relevant today, because minority groups are still feeling the repercussions of actions that happened in history

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Jefferson thought that African Americans were inferior to white and that they couldn't be changed.

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This raised disgust and a sort of disturbed curiosity, as the psychological leaps taken to allow such oppressive systems to persist are truly unfortunate.

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I learned that slavery was permanent and inheritable. Why did that make it so it was permanent and inheritable?

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White people drove from the Atlantic Slave Trade and supported it because they gained status and rights from it.

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I learned that slavery used to be perminent and inheritable. I also learned that back then was when the term white was developed. How early did slavery start?

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I learned that the people's social status was determined by their wealth and what religion they believe in, not race.

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That there were varying degrees of "civilized" to white people, and that they truly believed they were benefiting those they "civilized".

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This info matters today because it is important to know the foundation of how America was made, and the dark truth of it so that history doesn't repeat itself

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This made me feel a little bit uncomfortable, because I know that we have so many statues and monuments created in the name of people who owned enslaved people.

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I found out that before the concept of race social class was the way of setting status between people. over time they slowly switched to seperation by race when doing the atlantic slave trade

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I learned more about how class was divided up before it was divided by race. And im wondering if class and religion still played a big roll even after people got divided by race.

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Originally they were losing indentured servants so they turned to the TransAtlantic Slave Trade for more workers.

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One thing that came as a complete surprise to me was that most people didn't consider race the defining feature it is today, paying attention to other traits.

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Pseudo science was created on the basis of race despite there never being any real evidence. They lied to support an agenda and create a specific answer to a question.

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Many wanted Native Americans to be "civilized" instead of enslaved or killed.

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This information will always matter because it still defines life for many today. Just as mentioned in the video, this has been and will always be the foundation of America. Because of this, it will always effect our present and future.

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Slavery being Permanent and Inheritable was first introduced in America.

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I learned that before race determined social class, poor white europeans were the workers on farms. When people would arrive from Africa, they were originally treater poorly because of wealth and religion, not race.

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So many of the things we have learnt from the video are not widely talked about today and it is important for people to know what really happened and how it shapes today's society.

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I learned that as America became better for white middle class it became worse for everyone else.

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I learned that as America got into the Transatlantic Slave Trade, white people who were previously slaves started to gain rights.

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That the concept of slavery being inheritable and permanent was first introduced in the American colonies.

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It is important to know about this topic today to become aware of it and recognize what was wrong about it, but also to make sure that it never happens again.

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This matters today because our society has been shaped by these ideas. They were created for a purpose, and they continue to spread hate and misinformation to this day.

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Before the concept of race was created religon and class determined status

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The founding fathers had contradicting ideals which they justified with white sumpremacy.

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The information matters because the founding documents that we still use today are deeply flawed. Not only were the documents contradictory to how the Founding Fathers lived but they were also deeply disturbing.