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The Importance of Source Checking

2 Pages 530 Words October 2018

Verifying the past is a key task in unraveling the “truth” in the way of learning about our history. In Mab Segrest's’, Memoir of a Race Traitor, she weaves a history from personal and impersonal sources that one may need to verify to make sure it can be trusted as a credible source. Segrest uses Howard Zinn's’, A People’s History of the United States, to make several claims and the audience needs to verify her sources to understand if what she says is bias or credible. Segrest talks about New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, and the Americas being settler colonies. She goes on and says that the American colonies were the worst set of colonies in terms of slavery and racism. She accredits taking this from chapter two of Howard Zinn’s book.1 “...only in the Americas would European colonials import Africans for slave labor, and it is from this fusion of settler colonization and chattel slavery that the particularly vicious character of U.S. racism emerges”2
Segrest also talks about how the African states had had slavery but to a very tiny scale to that of the Americas. She again uses Howard Zinn's’, A People’s History of the United States, to make another claim on slavery and racism in America.3
“Slavery did exist in the African States to which Europe turned for slaves, but with nothing like the severity or inhumanity that European slavery derived from a relentless pursuit of profits and from racial hatreds.”4
A People’s History of the United States by Zinn explores the United States history through varieties of perspectives. In the second chapter, Zinn specifically talks about the start and rise in slavery in the United States and its process through which slavery was able to occur and flourish. Zinn talks about 6 specific conditions that were allowed and needed for slavery. Zinn discusses historical examples on how conditions affected crucial decisions and events in history. These conditions don’t only ap...

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