Why were people obsessed with if someone was black or not during slavery time?

[Anonymous]

[rigmarole]

If you want the condensed version, the Muslims (i. e. Moors) invade Europe (e. g. Iberian Peninsula, southern France, Sicily, etc.). The Christians fought to expel the Muslims from Christian lands to regain their freedom. During this period captives were taken on both sides due to war. Muslims that were captured by White Europeans were often ransomed back to their home country in prisoner exchange. Muslims that had been captured in the 1400s offered up Black gentile slaves not from Beber or Moorish heritage in exchange for their freedom. The Muslims paid 10 Black slaves in exchange for each Muslim life. To Muslims this was no big deal, the Arab slave trade had been flourishing since the 600s and they regularly traded in Black pagans as a commodity. In Islam, you are allowed to take pagans as slaves. Specifically Blacks are denoted to be destine for hell and Whites are destine for heaven according to the Quran. Thus Europeans were introduced to the culture of Black enslavement by North African Muslims who had invaded Europe... The Catholic Church being at war with the Muslims, authorized the enslavement of local populations and plunder of wealth from North/West African territory under dictate of Pope Nicolas V and contracts for a south Atlantic trade monopoly were basically granted to the Portuguese. The target were the Muslim invaders, but the Muslims liked to trade Blacks. Being that a trade monopoly was granted to the Portuguese, and the Muslims traded Blacks to the Portuguese, that's what ended up being shipped to the new world (Americas) in trade to the Spanish who had right to colonize American land.

[veganrogue]

I don't know about slavery time, but I just watched a movie which is a true story about child trafficking and human trafficking in general (sex trafficking and forced labor) is a $150B dollar global business. There are more slaves today than when it was legal and millions of them are little kids. Shocking and horrific. The sad truth is that slavery is alive and well in 2023, soon to be 2024.

[RavVid]

I assume it is meant obsessed with where people were enslaved. It was pretty universal. Much of the European Mediterranean coastline was denuded of population from slaving.

Rome enslaved conquered people but eventually found slaves weren't economic and introduced serfdom to replace slaves. The root of serf is the latin servus or slave. The root for Slavic people is the same.

You can generalize that most people were slaves most of the time.

[Joshydavid25]

You're talking about the 1 drop rule... Where any amount of "Black" made you "Black".. I don't think they were specifically obsessed with it.. It was probably some they believed back then.. And even then, we don't know how many people did..

[normalice]

People are still obsessed with it. Specifically white nationalists are obsessed because they want whites to hold all the power.

[FunkyMonkee]

They were seen as low-lifes. They didn't deserve the respect that whites got. But, it was the same way for we Irish about 100 years ago. We were treated like shit, too.

[ChicoFromThe305]

Cause they had the brain size of a pea back then, to be fair some still have brains the size of a pea

[Asker]

Like they think anyone not European looking was pretty much black no joke.

[ChicoFromThe305]

Yep I would've probably gotten whipped to death for looking like milked coffee back then, they probably would've been like you middle skinned abomination *whip* *whip*

I would've been there like AaAaAaAaAaAaAa

[Asker]

Are you serious or playing?

[ChicoFromThe305]

Partially, I actually believe the white people would've whipped me too because I'm not white, back then it's like they only saw one color and if they saw something else they would whip it

[Asker]

They only see white or black?

[ChicoFromThe305]

No they only see white and anything that wasn't white, they seemed to have grown hatred towards lol

[Asker]

How did you know that they were that weird?

[ChicoFromThe305]

Cause it's obvious they behave like animals, think of it, what type of mindset thinks that because someones skin color is different that you have the rights to whip them and enslave them to do your bidding, it's a pea brain mentality, its like grabbing a basket full of oranges and Apples and throwing and stomping and screaming at all the oranges cause they are orange, it's pathetic lol

[Anonymous]

Because they wanted to find more black people to enslave. The more black people they enslaved, the more money they would make.

[RedInnocent68]

Because blacks weren’t considered people by many whites?

[Kaneki05]

Racism. Obviously.

[SmokinAces2000]

I feel like this should be common sense

[Asker]

Not really because being racist is dumb.