"Biological Type"

In todays class we discus about the book Slave and Citizen from Frank Tannenbaum’s. One of Tannenbaum’s arguments was the new “ biological type” in other words the mixture of races. In Brazil it was getting common to see mix races emerged through society and accepted by society as Mulattos. From the Portugal colony to the European- Anglo they kept a moral stability from right and wrong. They used slaves for economical growth and because it was essential to their religious ways. Slaves were people and they had rights as any other human being. In American it was the opposite slaves had no rights what so ever they weren’t treated as humans and there moral ways were completely different. One of Tannenbaum’s arguments is that the only way that the slave trade would end was in hands of white men only if agreed. Why would white men abuse its power towards black men? When we are all human procreations? . Tannenbaum’s explains that the “biological type” was the mixture of race that was slowly building up in the South. It seems that for him it was a good idea .White men would have mistresses to later procreate children and masters would have power over that child. “A girl of seventeen that has giving birth two children were called good breeder” (Tannenbaum82). Black slaves that would procreate children would triple their prices in the slave market also benefiting the slave master of course because later that child would work for him. I can’t imagine any women of my age having children every now and then. Slave women were forced against there own will with white men conditions.