A map of the land trade route from Europe to Asia along the Silk Road. Image credit: M’ ships brought Europeans valuable goods, traveling between the port cities of western Europe and the East from the 10th century on along routes collectively labeled the Silk Road. However, transporting goods along the Silk Road was costly, slow, and unprofitable. Muslim middlemen collected taxes as the goods changed hands. Robbers waited to ambush treasure-laden caravans.
As well as seeking a water passage to the wealthy cities of the East, sailors wanted to find a route to the exotic and wealthy Spice Islands in modern-day Indonesia, whose location was kept secret by Muslim rulers. The lure of profit pushed explorers to seek new trade routes to the Spice Islands and to eliminate Muslim middlemen.
The plessy decision had tremendous effect in society at large at the time as it legitimized racial segregation on an institutional level.
By separating public facilities such as schools and going as far to even exclude black people from transiting public space like many beaches, restaurants and hotels, African-American institutions were effectively put at a huge disadvantage in every regard. Some of the consequences were a massive peak in aliteracy within the black community, for example, and the denial to their political leaders from continuing to advance in a system that removed their ability to further participate. In the south, they also were almost completely erased from voting registrations.
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