Topic > The Role of Race in a Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki

Africans, unlike the Irish or Chinese, did not come to America voluntarily, where they were captured and brought to America on slave ships then sold into slavery. Slaves were in high demand where having indentured servants became less valuable where the institution of slavery was strengthened in time after Bacon's Rebellion because the planter class now fears having white workers for fear of the social order being disrupted (Takaki, page 59) . Slavery helped shape the history of the United States where this institution made the formation of American revolutionary ideals possible because slaves ran the nation through the work they were doing. This gave leaders time to formulate and plan the revolution. It also helped fuel early globalization and the global market, the national economy, and capitalism through the slave trade. All of these things gave rise to modern industry, modern finance, modern investment, the new banking system, where that helped give rise to the creation of wage workers, where that helped finance the Industrial Revolution. As cotton production increased, slaves became more valuable, and cotton accelerated the value of slaves. Although slaves were an important source of labor for the market revolution, the industrial revolution and