Trading Freedoms

With the growth of modern industry and agriculture, necessity for hard labor was very much needed in the modern world. European settlers in America set their sails out for Africa in order to acquire the needed workforce. At this point in history, people in the Americas had exponentially contributed to making slaves a tradable asset.

Now that slaves were primarily being brought in from Africa, generations have now been established in the Americas. This was the root of the oppressive perspective that were placed on Blacks, based on them being racially inferior to the White man. At this time, Black slaves were judged by their skin pigmentation and were regarded as lesser human beings and treated like animals. These discriminatory thoughts served as a foundational mentality for this particular ethnic group. These types of prejudices were engrained into White America for preceding generations. No matter how far in history we are today, there is no doubt that some of the discrimination faced during from the slave trade have contributed to contemporary racial issues. 

Global Commerce: Fur

Due to the promotion of booming business, fur has now joined the list of valuable commerce items. Like most trading items, there is work to be done to acquire it. Given that fur is a natural biological resource, there are methods that the average businessman did not have in his or her bag of skills. Trapping was a skill honed predominantly by native peoples, in this instance, in America. European traders would travel into parts of America, like New England, or the South to find chief trappers for fur. Although these natives were paid for their labor, this in a sense, broke up the culture for those tribal practices. For the tribes, trapping fur was not a means of business, but a means of survival. With cold winters, warmth was a necessity to help each population survive. As a result, with the increasing demand for fur, the supply became scarce, by eradicating populations for their pelts.