Frank Bell: Voices from slavery
The Frank Bell's biography is one of the 100 narratives that the book Voices from slavery compiles, and is a panoramic pictures about the injustice and undignified treatment received by Africa-Americans during and after de Civil War in United States, from the perspective of Frank Bell and others who were enslaved.
This is a very important document to recognize a part of history, to understand the origins of racism, the hate discourses and the ideology wave of supremacy of white race, so present nowadays, mostly in the United States and Europe, and which have recently germinated in some Latin American countries, such as Brazil or Bolivia.
Unfortunately, the belief prevails of superiority of white race, keeps based on the division of which people are best able to realized certain jobs, those jobs that are social less valued and requiere greater physical strength, or those jobs highly valued that requires intelligence ability for the politics, economics or science, etc., socially associated with white men... or the undervalued work of care and domestic work, mostly done by women, for example
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