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One of the striking things about Ligon's True and Exact History, at least to me, is his contradictory tendency to both humanize and "otherize" the African men and women he observes. In one breath he can be very observant and sympathetic to his subjects, while in another breath he is strikingly dismissive of their humanity. Why do you think his work has this contradictory character? What do you think it says about the development of the idea of race. Put another way, do you think Ligon has a fully-formed idea about the "race" of the people he describes, or do you think writing like his is what contributed to the development of such a concept?
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Ligon arrived in Barbados at the exact moment when the transition to slave owning was just beginning, and the True and Exact History provides a vivid description on how everything took place. The way Ligon speaking about the slaves is shocking and gives you a sense as to how they treated to slaves so poorly. In the first paragraph, Ligon speaks about the population of humans on the Island, specifically excluding Negros, or slaves, from the count. Back then, they didn't even treat their slaves as human, showing how poorly they were thought of. This shows a development of thought where a different race than the norm means that you are sub-human and worthless. I believe that opinions like these sprung the origin of such hatred toward other races and skin colors, which in turn leads to stereotyping and assumption that they are insignificant compared to a white person. The idea of race, in my opinion, turned into a classification method to differentiate two humans apart from each other. Because these poor Africans were shipped from their homeland and sent across the world against their will, much like cattle, they are thus treated like such. Over time, this became a normal thing and resulted in a mass population treating slavery as a "normal" thing.
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After reading True and Exact History By Richard Ligon, I feel as though Ligon was somewhat conflictedin his observations of the slaves on the Caribbean island of Barbados. One the one hand, Ligon was a loyal supporter of King Charles I, and thus had the view point that slavery and slave labor where both just and necessary means of business. On the other hand, Ligon showed empathy and compassion for the slaves and their daily struggle to work and survive the tough conditions that were prevalent for slaves on the island and in the fields. I believe that Ligon had a preconceived idea about race when he arrived because he was comfortable knowing that the slaves were not on the same level as whites and that there was a distinct pecking order. But I believe that over time his ideas about race evolved as he met and interacted with the slaves. Ligon even tried to help a slave convert into Christianity, "the people of that Iland were governed by the Lawes of England, and by those Lawes, we could not make a Christian a [url removed, login to view] I told him, my request was far different from that, for I desired him to make \
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