Abina and The Important Men is a collaboration between a South African artist Liz Clarke and Trevor Getz, who is a modern African and world Historian at San Francisco State University. Getz is known in his field for his earlier work, Slavery and Reform in West Africa, which is a book about slavery and the abolition of slavery in West Africa. The most interesting thing about Getz writing in this book is it is a history about women who have no history and the more important males of society due to their mere common interest, blur these women’s stories and accusations. In this essay, Abina and The Important Men will get a thorough review of structure and analysis of text and response in regards to how I as a reader perceived the book.…
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In the graphic history: Abina and the Important Men by Trevor R. Getz and Liz Clarke, it talks about the court case from the 1870s in Cape Coast in the British Gold Coast Colony. We, the readers are presented to the character Abina Mansah, a strong-willed West African Woman who was enslaved by Quamina Eddoo. At the time it was illegal to have slaves and Abina knew she had been illegally sold so she ran away to Cape Coast to complain about being purchased because she heard that there were country people living there. She went to the interpreter for the colonial courts, James Davis; he helped her fight in court for her rightfully owned freedom. It becomes clear through the graphic history which characters are considered to be “important” because…
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JOHN CABOT John Cabot was a good man. He discovered a new land. John did other stuff to. He died and was sad because he was a good explorer. John Cabot had a wonderful family and 3 kids and a wife.…
“What do you mean I’m not making a good case,” Kevin whined. Kevin was getting very upset when he couldn’t get his point across to his father. “Okay, listen,” there was a short moment of silence as Kevin listened to what his father had to say. “If you can somehow prove to me that Cromwell needs training, I will let you do it,” Howie offered.…
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The colonies had begun being established by men for nearly a century, however, families including women and children settled in the New England colonies as units during the early to mid-1600’s. While colonists left their old land behind, many of the same traditional expectations stayed with them. The most prominent of those notions being how a woman should act, particularly in regards to the public sphere. A goodwife was the title given to married women that had a whole slew of baggage attached to it. A “goody” (a shortened title for goodwife) was expected to be submissive and obedient to her husband and authorities, diligent in her religion and housework, stoic, and a role model of a mother.…
Abina and The Important Men is a collaboration of both Trevor R. Getz and Liz Clarke. Getz, a historian of Africa and also a professor at San Francisco State University in World History. This book is graphic history that tells the story of a real court case in the town of Cape Coast in the British Gold Coast colony of West Africa during the 1870’s. This case involved the plaintiff, Abina Mansah and the defendant, a wealthy important man named Quamina Eddoo. Abina (the plaintiff), believes that Quamina Eddoo wrongly enslaved her.…
The book Abina and the Important Men is a graphic history about an African woman named Abina during 1876 in the Gold Coast of West Africa. During the 1700s Asante was a powerful state that had control over gold trade and slave trade around the region. In the 1850s and 1860s the British ran into conflicts with Asante kings because they were not willing to step down and let the British take over. This plays a large importance in the difficulty the courtroom experiences when attempting to rule a slave owner guilty, as the British do not want cause problems with slave owners. Abina was a slave during the time period that was given to Quamina Eddoo for a short period of time.…