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The Slave Trade and the Origins of African Slavery IntroductionIn The White Man`s Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States (1974), Winthrop Jordan used historical accounts as well as evidences of incipient racism in the arts and literature of the early colonization period to support his arguments. On the other hand, The Slave Ship: a Human History (2007) by Markus Rediker humanized the stories behind the slave trade, thereafter chronicling the travails and struggles of the colonies against the colonizers. The perception of the Africans as “blacksâ€, which then connote as lesser human beings, is partly the reason behind the ensuing belief that they can be treated as slaves and thus perpetuating the evils of the slave trade and the burden of racism against these people.BodyThe evils racism rests upon the gaze that perceives them to be so. According to Jordan (1974: 4), “‘Negroes` looked different to Englishmen; their religion was un-Christian; their manner of living was anything but English; they seemed to be a particularly libidinous sort of people.†The colonizer...