The film Captain Marvel is one that shows us some of the injustices and unfair judgements people give on certain races before really knowing the full story. Throughout the movie we follow Carol Danvers, or we know her originally as “Vers” which is her name given to her by the kree. Carol has lost her memory of who she was on earth and the movie takes us on a journey as she regains these memories she has lost. She is currently wrapped up in a war that has been going on for ages which is the kree skrull war and she has been brainwashed when she was taken from earth to think she has always been a kree. The kree took her because she got powers when she was trying to save her boss from the kree. Through most of the movie we are led to believe the skrulls are the bad guys they have green skin and look like goblins and people are scared of them and don’t give them a chance. Eventually when carol sits down and hears them out, we realize they are just trying to find a new home to live peacefully. This injustice that everyone portrayed on the skrulls reminds me of people today judging races before actually knowing the truth about them and what they have went through. The skrulls are being hunted and killed just for being skrulls which isn’t right. Now I don’t think it is as extreme in our world but I do think people are treated differently or looked at differently just because of the color of their skin or there gender. I think if more people sat down with people who didn’t come from the same background as them and heard each other out a lot of good would come out of it.

I would like to give everyone a numerical understanding of the inhabitants of the new world, or the Americas of the eighteenth century.  Although the Europeans first came to the Americas in the early 1600’s, it wasn’t until the eighteenth century, or the 1700’s, that colonialists started to populate the land.  During this time in the Americas the people inhabiting it included:  the Native Americans, or Indians, the colonialists and African slaves brought by the colonialists.

Obviously, the Native Americans were the first of the inhabitants in the Americas, and rightly so the land belonged to them.   Unfortunately, the European colonialists did not see it this way.  The European colonialists did not treat the Native Americans well, even though the Indians treated them as equals.  John Lawson, a British naturalist and explorer, clearly states this in his book entitled:  A New Voyage to Carolina, “They are really better to us than we are to them….these Indians are the freest People in the World, and so far from being Intruders upon us, that we have abandon’d our own Native soil to drive them out and possess theirs.”

The population of the Native Americans, or Indians, when the English first began to colonize the Americas was over 100,000, this number greatly dwindled in the mid-eighteenth century to between 30,000-42,000 (The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation).  These numbers greatly differ when compared to the 1.5 European colonialists living in the Americas in the mid-eighteenth century.   The African slaves also outnumbered the Indians during the mid-eighteenth century with 150,000-240,000 (Hacker, 2020).

The Europeans at the time considered themselves the ‘elite’ because they were civilized and worldly compared to the Indians and the African slaves, therefore, they considered the Indians and African slaves of lower status or “subalterns”.

Works Cited

Hacker, David J. “From ’20. And odd’ to 10million:  The growth of the slave population in

the United States.”  Slavery & abolition, vol. 41, 4 (2020): 840-855.

doi:10.1080/0144039x.2020.1755502

Lawson, John. “A New Voyage to Carolina.” 1709.

https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/lawson/lawson.html

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. “The American Revolution:  The Native American

Population of British America.” 2021. https://ouramericanrevolution.org

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