Zin's peoples history 11 28-11
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Zin depicts the Spanish colonizers as vicious who murdered and enslaved Native Americans. He describes the Native Americans as kind, intelligent, strong and handsome. Zin portrays the Natives as "noble savages" who welcomed the colonizers with openness and generosity by freely sharing their possessions. The document criticizes how historians have biased views by either demonizing or romanticizing other cultures.
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Zin's peoples history 11 28-11
- 1. ZINS A PEOPLES HISTORY Saydee Bennett 11-28-11 Period 2 English 11
- 2. Zins Bias When the Spaniards took prisoners they hanged them or burned them to death. Among the Arawaks, mass suicides began, with cassava poison. Infants were killed to save them from the Spaniards. In two years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide, half of the 250,000 Indians on Haiti were dead. I think Zinns bias is that the Spaniards are vicious cold hearted people who worked the indians to death, took them prisoner raped their women and children, and
- 3. Zins Bias They ... brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned... . They were well- built, with good bodies and handsome features.... They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane... . They would make 鍖ne servants.... With 鍖fty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want. Zin made the Natives out to be kind hearted, intelligent but no so much, strong and handsome.
- 4. Noble Savage Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. I believe he is romanticizing the noble savage.
- 5. Noble Savage The Indians, Columbus reported, "are so naive and so free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them would believe it. When you ask for something they have, they never say no. To the contrary, they o鍖er to share with anyone...." He Depicts the native americans as strong, handsome, and very giving people.
- 6. Conclusion We demonize people by opinion. We do not do it to people of our own culture because we believe we are the better more proper race. We romanticize people because they are a di鍖erent more mystical race, theirs more mystery to them.