1. Slavery was first and foremost an economic strategy and racism resulted as a result of slavery. The rise of capitalism and slavery are connected as slavery was an economic strategy to thrive in a capitalist system. 2. Think of race as an ideology rather than an identity we choose or as a set of biological traits that differentiate one group from another3. Understand how slavery was a very real historical process that drove the construction of ideological categories of "Black" and "White"

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