I find the arguments of Pelliza de Sagasta to be quite infuriating and without reason. It is similar to the…
Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with anti-feminist, emancipation, Equality, Freedom, liberation, rights, slaves
This week’s lecture discussed slavery within the Latin Americas and how although we tend to think of slavery as something within the distant past, in reality we are only separated from it by a few generations. What I found interesting was the different dates mentioned where slavery was abolished; and how even the word emancipation […]
Hello! This week I was so intrigued by the comparison between Latin American citizenship and rights discussion versus Canadian citizenship and rights discussion. Although I am originally from Argentina, my academic knowledge of this subject is much more centered in the Canadian indigenous perspective due to the direction my academics have taken me. One of […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with Citizenship, independence, indigenous, representation, rights, slavery
Hello! This week I was so intrigued by the comparison between Latin American citizenship and rights discussion versus Canadian citizenship and rights discussion. Although I am originally from Argentina, my academic knowledge of this subject is much more centered in the Canadian indigenous perspective due to the direction my academics have taken me. One of […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with Citizenship, independence, indigenous, representation, rights, slavery
The first topic I want to dis cuss is slavery and this abnormal timeline in Latin America. In 1793, due to the Haitian Revolution, slavery was abolished in Haiti. Chile abolished slavery in 1823, the United States in 1865, Cuba in 1886 and Brazil in 1888. I suggest this timeline because modern-day Haiti would be …
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The first topic I want to dis cuss is slavery and this abnormal timeline in Latin America. In 1793, due to the Haitian Revolution, slavery was abolished in Haiti. Chile abolished slavery in 1823, the United States in 1865, Cuba in 1886 and Brazil in 1888. I suggest this timeline because modern-day Haiti would be …
Continue reading “Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics”
One important thing to considering when thinking about the legacy of slavery today is the fact that it was primarily an economic system; a system of free labor. Shifting too far away from this would have been severely damaging to the status quo, as such numerous ways of continuing to exact free or cheap labor […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with capital, labor, prison, slavery, strikebreaking, wage-slavery, workers
This week I would like to directly comment on the questions that Jon asks in his lecture video. How does a history of slavery affect the Americas today? Even though in a perfect world, there would be no prejudice, hate or discrimination against different races, this is sadly not the case in the current world […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with Discrimination, education, race, Racial Tension
This week, we are looking into who was considered a citizen and enjoyed the privileges of that status in post-independence Latin America. In the beginning of the chapter, we’re asked to look back on the Casta paintings of Week 3 and to think about how the social and racial hierarchy portrayed in those paintings are […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with Brazil, emancipation, racism, slavery
This week, we are looking into who was considered a citizen and enjoyed the privileges of that status in post-independence Latin America. In the beginning of the chapter, we’re asked to look back on the Casta paintings of Week 3 and to think about how the social and racial hierarchy portrayed in those paintings are […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with Brazil, emancipation, racism, slavery
