PSYCHOLOGICAL LEGACY

Psychological Legacy

Psychological Legacy

A community can be considered a people who share our language. Features and many other cultural similarities, Strong communities are usually meant a unit or bonds. This bond is a sense of self-esteem and "brotherhood." However, it does not seem to exist in the black community. Slavery was nearly destroyed the existence of a unit. When Africans were taken from Africa, different tribes are mixed on board ship and stripped of their identities. The difference between African tribes had a positive impact for slavery because it caused disharmony. Helped to maintain control during both trips and once they arrived in the United States to achieve the effect of lack of unity, the slave owners who continue to develop tactics to further the lack of Afro-American unity sali 't to generation until now.

Period disharmony slavery of Africans helped the owners of slaves to run their plants more efficient and stronger blacks slaves. Their lack of cohesion is increased due to mistrust each other and increase the loyalty and trust with their owners, the Africans were divided according to physical characteristics (ie, complexion, body build). Of all the features, the skin is the most prominent division tactics used. The beautiful skin is commonly used as home workers and held a higher status than darker skin, which is used as field hands or given more severe treatment. Because they are the most favored, a feeling of superiority arises between light skin or home workers. This caused the Africans have darker skin to envy the beautiful skin by distancing negative effects of slavery and disconnect from each other, they caused the division of the plantation.

Any sign of unity, even seemingly innocuous link the bonds between children and their parents, are a threat to the slave owners cause most families must be separated and sold to others not different fields. African women have even been torn from their families to become mistresses of their owners. The separation of families have left the men capable of assuming their roles as father and head of the family and women left or been forced to raise their families on their own or other people.

Disintegration time before slavery was completely dismantled a few slaves were freed, many of which are the skin or "Mullatoes. When slavery was dismantled and the other slaves were freed, the fear Mullatoes mixing or associating with others other blacks has ...