HSY1511 Assignment 4 Semester 1 2024

HSY1511 Assignment 4 Semester 1 2024

Questions

1. Discuss how European explorers and Enlightenment thinkers used false scientific theories to justify slavery and racism with reference to the story of Sarah Baartman.

In the 19 century the European explorers and the Enlightenment thinkers used or utilized false scientific theories to justify slavery and racism by claiming or saying that Europeans
were superior to Africans. The explorers and Enlightenment thinkers believed that certain races….