Return of the Death Camp

Scientific Racism: Eugenics

In the video called Scientific Slavery it explained that the remains of thousands of Africans that were massacred in the world’s first death camp reemerged from the sands of Africa’s Namib dessert. These remains reveal over a hundred year old events that were purposely untold in colonial history. These forgotten slaughters took place not only in Africa’s Namib dessert but also all over the world. This was due to the very influential scientists, philosophers, and writers of the British Empire.

In 1803 the British begin to settle in Tasmania. When the settlers get there they noticed that there are people living there already. These Tasmanian people, also known as Aboriginals seemed not to have a real culture to the new settlers, which deemed them as primitive. The settler’s thoughts that were influenced under British rule, believed that the aboriginals were considered lesser men, in other words animals. With this perspective the settlers justified the mistreatment of these people and took their natural resources as well.

British government and influential characters created a perception in the masses minds that allowed them to believe that their religion could justify slavery and the abuse of what those considered lesser men. If that was not enough justification, then they believed Eugenics proved it with theoretical facts. The theory is that these lesser men where to be inferior and to improve or help evolve man the lesser man must be eradicated so that they do not mix genetics with the superior man’s genetics or else it will lead the human race to become extinct.

From the 1820’s the British settlers displaced and abused the aboriginals till the end of the 1820’s. By this time the Tasmanian people had been nearly exterminated. From that point the trend grew around the world. Indigenous people had been pushed to the brink of extinction.

The Declaration of independence was designed to influence the new Americans to gain their rights and freedom from the British governments control. It also was a contract that allowed the people that it would affect to know, that they were going to live on a battlefield for Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

David Walkers wrote this letter to explain that religion was being used as a manipulative tool to get people to believe that slavery was justifiable. That same religion also mentions to treat all men as brothers therefore leading David to believe that there are hypocritical.

It is interesting to me that Jefferson would have an explanation like; these slaves were considered lesser men, more like animals. In my opinion even with all of these religions, systems, scientific theories, people still can not explain why they are here on this Earth so there shouldn’t be an argument about who does what. Everyone should be given equal opportunity to explore his or her desires as long as they do not harm others in the process.