Friday, September 30, 2011

Racial tension and its contributions to Seminole-U.S. conflict

There are many racial tensions that contributed to the conflicts between Seminoles and U.S. Seminoles were a band of Native Americans that had some African slave influence there fore slavery and the understanding that slaves can’t own land or property caused this inferior view that the Americans had against African slaves that leads to a racial tension that we still see for a long time and still see sometimes today. The Native Americans and Americans were a similar situation in that Native Americans were seen as savages. Americans and Indians had complications over values, beliefs, and of course land these all are leading factors of tension between races. They try to introduce the natives to this better way of life, the European way, and in return want their removal from the land they could populate. They look down on their beliefs by offering up their own they teach them about property and ownership and this causes natives who still know the old ways to want to revolt against this change and loss of their freedom and civilization that they knew. All these factors are related to races because all three races have their own values and culture that they follow that don’t coincide in a way that benefits both sides.

1 comment:

J Chambliss said...

I think you have some good ideas here, but I wish you would have fleshed out some of your ideas with greater depth of detail. Try concentrating more on one point in your next blog post.