How the labeling of colors starts

1. White by Law by Ian F. Haney Lopez
The Shaping of Black America by Lerone Bennett
Birth of a White Nation by Jacqueline Battalora

2. If race is a social construct,
then where did all this
labeling of races begin?

3. North America in the 1600s
SOURCE :https://www.raremaps.com

4. SOURCE: http://www1.udel.edu/johnmack/mason_dixon/

5. 1600S TOBACCO FARMING
In the 1600s the economies
of Maryland and Virginia
depended on tobacco.
SOURCE: http://www.virginiaplaces.org/military/powhatanwaraims.html

6. Indentured Servants
SOURCE: http://thebusterclan.blogspot.com/2016/09/indentured-servants-in-colonial-virginia.html

7. there were free Africans in
the British colonies

8. WHITE had no
Meaning

9. Workers were defined and known by:
•their religion
▪their nationality
▪free or not free

10. in the early 1600, there
were no “white people” in
the British colonies.

11. 50% of marriages of British
women were to African
men. ¼ of the children born
in the 1660s were African-
descended.

12. The workers were equal in
their common low status.