This lecture video talked about a number of important factors all relating to history and slavery.
I learnt that Indigenous populations plummeted because of violence and them having been turned into slaves or killed in the 1800’s following Christopher Columbus. Additionally, all the black slaves- 10 million slaves forced across to work in Africa. I know this perspective (African perspective) because of having learnt this in my high-school history class back in Kenya. A lot of detail was shared with us then on how difficult the situations for slaves had been, most slaves did not even make it back to Africa because of the kind of conditions that were present on the boat, for instance, they were all forced to sleep and defecate in the same small space of the boat which leads to tons of slaves falling sick, and if they did fall ill they would be thrown off the boats. This was one of the biggest coerced movement of people in history. Because of Christopher Columbus, the population (Amerindian populations) had been reduced by 90% because of the killings and the total invasion of diseases.
At this time Africa had one of the weakest concepts of social identity and because of this reason, they had been targeted by the Europeans and the Americans to be taken and coerced for labour. After Lincoln had advocated for the emancipation of slave ideas such as pan-Africanism had begun to come into place. 1888 slavery was abolished but slaveries legacies are still with us even today. I found it interesting to see how there had been different dates for the abolishment of slavery around America but 1888 was the final date that slavery was abolished.
I question why the slaves were always African however because for some cases it would have been cheaper to have enslavement of Europeans or Americans instead of having to ship African slaves to remote areas.
Today a lot of people deny the fact that racism is absent when in fact it is present almost everywhere but I ponder on why we are always living in the past. As a Kenyan, I’ve heard other Kenyan’s speak about the horrible conditions that our people went through during times of colonisation and this is a constant topic that keeps coming up- but how much longer are we going to keep blaming slavery and blaming Americas/Europeans for the past. We can no longer live in the past- we must live in the future and start overcoming whatever setbacks faced and we must stop playing this “blame game.”
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This lecture video talked about a number of important factors all relating to history and slavery.
I learnt that Indigenous populations plummeted because of violence and them having been turned into slaves or killed in the 1800’s following Christopher Columbus. Additionally, all the black slaves- 10 million slaves forced across to work in Africa. I know this perspective (African perspective) because of having learnt this in my high-school history class back in Kenya. A lot of detail was shared with us then on how difficult the situations for slaves had been, most slaves did not even make it back to Africa because of the kind of conditions that were present on the boat, for instance, they were all forced to sleep and defecate in the same small space of the boat which leads to tons of slaves falling sick, and if they did fall ill they would be thrown off the boats. This was one of the biggest coerced movement of people in history. Because of Christopher Columbus, the population (Amerindian populations) had been reduced by 90% because of the killings and the total invasion of diseases.
At this time Africa had one of the weakest concepts of social identity and because of this reason, they had been targeted by the Europeans and the Americans to be taken and coerced for labour. After Lincoln had advocated for the emancipation of slave ideas such as pan-Africanism had begun to come into place. 1888 slavery was abolished but slaveries legacies are still with us even today. I found it interesting to see how there had been different dates for the abolishment of slavery around America but 1888 was the final date that slavery was abolished.
I question why the slaves were always African however because for some cases it would have been cheaper to have enslavement of Europeans or Americans instead of having to ship African slaves to remote areas.
Today a lot of people deny the fact that racism is absent when in fact it is present almost everywhere but I ponder on why we are always living in the past. As a Kenyan, I’ve heard other Kenyan’s speak about the horrible conditions that our people went through during times of colonisation and this is a constant topic that keeps coming up- but how much longer are we going to keep blaming slavery and blaming Americas/Europeans for the past. We can no longer live in the past- we must live in the future and start overcoming whatever setbacks faced and we must stop playing this “blame game.”
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with 1800, africa, colonisation, Columbus, european, Lincoln, pan africa, republics, rights, slavery
This lecture video talked about a number of important factors all relating to history and slavery.
I learnt that Indigenous populations plummeted because of violence and them having been turned into slaves or killed in the 1800’s following Christopher Columbus. Additionally, all the black slaves- 10 million slaves forced across to work in Africa. I know this perspective (African perspective) because of having learnt this in my high-school history class back in Kenya. A lot of detail was shared with us then on how difficult the situations for slaves had been, most slaves did not even make it back to Africa because of the kind of conditions that were present on the boat, for instance, they were all forced to sleep and defecate in the same small space of the boat which leads to tons of slaves falling sick, and if they did fall ill they would be thrown off the boats. This was one of the biggest coerced movement of people in history. Because of Christopher Columbus, the population (Amerindian populations) had been reduced by 90% because of the killings and the total invasion of diseases.
At this time Africa had one of the weakest concepts of social identity and because of this reason, they had been targeted by the Europeans and the Americans to be taken and coerced for labour. After Lincoln had advocated for the emancipation of slave ideas such as pan-Africanism had begun to come into place. 1888 slavery was abolished but slaveries legacies are still with us even today. I found it interesting to see how there had been different dates for the abolishment of slavery around America but 1888 was the final date that slavery was abolished.
I question why the slaves were always African however because for some cases it would have been cheaper to have enslavement of Europeans or Americans instead of having to ship African slaves to remote areas.
Today a lot of people deny the fact that racism is absent when in fact it is present almost everywhere but I ponder on why we are always living in the past. As a Kenyan, I’ve heard other Kenyan’s speak about the horrible conditions that our people went through during times of colonisation and this is a constant topic that keeps coming up- but how much longer are we going to keep blaming slavery and blaming Americas/Europeans for the past. We can no longer live in the past- we must live in the future and start overcoming whatever setbacks faced and we must stop playing this “blame game.”
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with 1800, africa, colonisation, Columbus, european, Lincoln, pan africa, republics, rights, slavery
This lecture video talked about a number of important factors all relating to history and slavery.
I learnt that Indigenous populations plummeted because of violence and them having been turned into slaves or killed in the 1800’s following Christopher Columbus. Additionally, all the black slaves- 10 million slaves forced across to work in Africa. I know this perspective (African perspective) because of having learnt this in my high-school history class back in Kenya. A lot of detail was shared with us then on how difficult the situations for slaves had been, most slaves did not even make it back to Africa because of the kind of conditions that were present on the boat, for instance, they were all forced to sleep and defecate in the same small space of the boat which leads to tons of slaves falling sick, and if they did fall ill they would be thrown off the boats. This was one of the biggest coerced movement of people in history. Because of Christopher Columbus, the population (Amerindian populations) had been reduced by 90% because of the killings and the total invasion of diseases.
At this time Africa had one of the weakest concepts of social identity and because of this reason, they had been targeted by the Europeans and the Americans to be taken and coerced for labour. After Lincoln had advocated for the emancipation of slave ideas such as pan-Africanism had begun to come into place. 1888 slavery was abolished but slaveries legacies are still with us even today. I found it interesting to see how there had been different dates for the abolishment of slavery around America but 1888 was the final date that slavery was abolished.
I question why the slaves were always African however because for some cases it would have been cheaper to have enslavement of Europeans or Americans instead of having to ship African slaves to remote areas.
Today a lot of people deny the fact that racism is absent when in fact it is present almost everywhere but I ponder on why we are always living in the past. As a Kenyan, I’ve heard other Kenyan’s speak about the horrible conditions that our people went through during times of colonisation and this is a constant topic that keeps coming up- but how much longer are we going to keep blaming slavery and blaming Americas/Europeans for the past. We can no longer live in the past- we must live in the future and start overcoming whatever setbacks faced and we must stop playing this “blame game.”
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1492 was the fall of Granada brought to an 800 year of Muslim war. The Alhambra showed how Jews were all evicted, and how this can be described as ethnic cleansing. The new world claimed that the people were natural slaves whereas the Las casas saw them as potential Christian converts.
This was by far the most interesting video I have seen to date from taking this class.
It was shocking to see how the population of indigenous populations of the Americas had been halved in 1550. This then caused importing of slaves from Africa- it was interesting to see this as in high school in Kenya, we had been taught the history of slavery from the African perspective, reading textbooks that show how Africans had been exploited and to what degree. The lectures and videos showed me an entirely different lens to what had been going on the complete other end of the world in regard to African slaves and how they had been used on sugar plantations as well as why they had been imported and this had been due to a huge drop in the number of slaves that were already living in America at the time.
I previously had no knowledge that countries like Brazil had some of the highest numbers of slaves, this was a country that I would have previously never associated with the notion of slavery. It was because of this that the “Casta paintings” evolved. This was a hierarchy drawn out into dived boxes or grinds. Each grind representing or assigning racial combinations to names and a series of attributes such as clothing, occupation, land and housing. Casta painting were always almost always multiple and are a series of 16 scenes of racial mixture represented in a family group. It showed groups of:
Mestizo: white and indigenous
Chino: indigenous and black
Brazil at the time had significant black populations of: 35% Ameridian and 28% Mestizo. Again, this had been new to me, I had no idea Brazil had African’s in their country at the time.
It makes me question however, who classified all these images and where did the names for the racial ethnicities like “Mestizo” come from?
Posted in Blogs, Week 3 | Tagged with africa, Brazil, casta paintings, chino, christian, clothing, granada, import, land, mestizo, mulato, muslim war, racial, slavery
1492 was the fall of Granada brought to an 800 year of Muslim war. The Alhambra showed how Jews were all evicted, and how this can be described as ethnic cleansing. The new world claimed that the people were natural slaves whereas the Las casas saw them as potential Christian converts.
This was by far the most interesting video I have seen to date from taking this class.
It was shocking to see how the population of indigenous populations of the Americas had been halved in 1550. This then caused importing of slaves from Africa- it was interesting to see this as in high school in Kenya, we had been taught the history of slavery from the African perspective, reading textbooks that show how Africans had been exploited and to what degree. The lectures and videos showed me an entirely different lens to what had been going on the complete other end of the world in regard to African slaves and how they had been used on sugar plantations as well as why they had been imported and this had been due to a huge drop in the number of slaves that were already living in America at the time.
I previously had no knowledge that countries like Brazil had some of the highest numbers of slaves, this was a country that I would have previously never associated with the notion of slavery. It was because of this that the “Casta paintings” evolved. This was a hierarchy drawn out into dived boxes or grinds. Each grind representing or assigning racial combinations to names and a series of attributes such as clothing, occupation, land and housing. Casta painting were always almost always multiple and are a series of 16 scenes of racial mixture represented in a family group. It showed groups of:
Mestizo: white and indigenous
Chino: indigenous and black
Brazil at the time had significant black populations of: 35% Ameridian and 28% Mestizo. Again, this had been new to me, I had no idea Brazil had African’s in their country at the time.
It makes me question however, who classified all these images and where did the names for the racial ethnicities like “Mestizo” come from?
Posted in Blogs, Week 3 | Tagged with africa, Brazil, casta paintings, chino, christian, clothing, granada, import, land, mestizo, mulato, muslim war, racial, slavery
1492 was the fall of Granada brought to an 800 year of Muslim war. The Alhambra showed how Jews were all evicted, and how this can be described as ethnic cleansing. The new world claimed that the people were natural slaves whereas the Las casas saw them as potential Christian converts.
This was by far the most interesting video I have seen to date from taking this class.
It was shocking to see how the population of indigenous populations of the Americas had been halved in 1550. This then caused importing of slaves from Africa- it was interesting to see this as in high school in Kenya, we had been taught the history of slavery from the African perspective, reading textbooks that show how Africans had been exploited and to what degree. The lectures and videos showed me an entirely different lens to what had been going on the complete other end of the world in regard to African slaves and how they had been used on sugar plantations as well as why they had been imported and this had been due to a huge drop in the number of slaves that were already living in America at the time.
I previously had no knowledge that countries like Brazil had some of the highest numbers of slaves, this was a country that I would have previously never associated with the notion of slavery. It was because of this that the “Casta paintings” evolved. This was a hierarchy drawn out into dived boxes or grinds. Each grind representing or assigning racial combinations to names and a series of attributes such as clothing, occupation, land and housing. Casta painting were always almost always multiple and are a series of 16 scenes of racial mixture represented in a family group. It showed groups of:
Mestizo: white and indigenous
Chino: indigenous and black
Brazil at the time had significant black populations of: 35% Ameridian and 28% Mestizo. Again, this had been new to me, I had no idea Brazil had African’s in their country at the time.
It makes me question however, who classified all these images and where did the names for the racial ethnicities like “Mestizo” come from?
Posted in Blogs, Week 3 | Tagged with africa, Brazil, casta paintings, chino, christian, clothing, granada, import, land, mestizo, mulato, muslim war, racial, slavery
1492 was the fall of Granada brought to an 800 year of Muslim war. The Alhambra showed how Jews were all evicted, and how this can be described as ethnic cleansing. The new world claimed that the people were natural slaves whereas the Las casas saw them as potential Christian converts.
This was by far the most interesting video I have seen to date from taking this class.
It was shocking to see how the population of indigenous populations of the Americas had been halved in 1550. This then caused importing of slaves from Africa- it was interesting to see this as in high school in Kenya, we had been taught the history of slavery from the African perspective, reading textbooks that show how Africans had been exploited and to what degree. The lectures and videos showed me an entirely different lens to what had been going on the complete other end of the world in regard to African slaves and how they had been used on sugar plantations as well as why they had been imported and this had been due to a huge drop in the number of slaves that were already living in America at the time.
I previously had no knowledge that countries like Brazil had some of the highest numbers of slaves, this was a country that I would have previously never associated with the notion of slavery. It was because of this that the “Casta paintings” evolved. This was a hierarchy drawn out into dived boxes or grinds. Each grind representing or assigning racial combinations to names and a series of attributes such as clothing, occupation, land and housing. Casta painting were always almost always multiple and are a series of 16 scenes of racial mixture represented in a family group. It showed groups of:
Mestizo: white and indigenous
Chino: indigenous and black
Brazil at the time had significant black populations of: 35% Ameridian and 28% Mestizo. Again, this had been new to me, I had no idea Brazil had African’s in their country at the time.
It makes me question however, who classified all these images and where did the names for the racial ethnicities like “Mestizo” come from?
Posted in Blogs, Week 3 | Tagged with africa, Brazil, casta paintings, chino, christian, clothing, granada, import, land, mestizo, mulato, muslim war, racial, slavery
