Antigua

Captain W. Snelgrave, transported slaves (africans) by ship and at the time when described he was gathering a cargo of slaves on the “slave coast” of Benin to transport to Santigua. Snelgrave considered himself a humane trader who was transporting his cargo to a better, Christian life. His job connected to the slave trade becasue he was transporting them allowing slaves to be moved which was how people recieved slaves. When trading them he was humane and kind, this type of action shows two sides…

“She stripped and flogged me long and severely with the cow- skin; as long as she had strength to use the lash” (Salih, Pg. 16). This was the life of Mary Prince, who grew up as a slave; mistreated for years. This punishment was the result of a jar accidently slipping from Mary’s hands, causing it to shatter. Sympathy was rarely given to slaves when mistakes were made, and usually resulted in cruel punishment. Have you ever thought about how a slave felt during the slavery period? The…

In my second year of medical school, I took up the opportunity to become a leader by establishing a charitable organization at my university. With the help of a few executive board members that I put together, I was able to start up a chapter on my campus of one of the world’s largest, student driven, nonprofit, medical missions’ organization known as Global Brigades. I thought of the idea, while I was pondering about joining a medical fraternity. The organization’s online ad had shown up on my…

SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICAL THINKING By Seth Owen The Beltway sniper attacks were a string of killings that occurred between October 2, 2002 and October 22, 2002 in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The perpetrators, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, claimed ten victims and wounded seven others during the attacks. Their criminal activity began in February, 2002 with a series of murders and robberies in eight different states which left seven dead and seven wounded. The shootings were…

is seen as one of them, she is confined to work only as a nanny. Although originally she is from Antigua where mostly the color of skin is similar to African women in the United States. Moreover, Lucy’s parents expect less from her, while her brothers are encouraged to pursue a wonderful career. Her mother only wants her to study nursing rather than anything else because its a norm for women in Antigua to become a nurse. That is to say, there also is sexism against women in terms of education…

Does the influence of external and internal worlds impact the shaping and growth of our identities? Literature has the captivating ability to broaden and expand society’s knowledge of human complexity, and impact readers’ intellectual perceptions of their external and internal worlds. This is further investigated in both Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, as they provide perceptive offerings into colonial societies and families’ crucial influence on an…

“She stripped and flogged me long and severely with the cow- skin; as long as she had strength to use the lash” (Salih, Pg. 16). This was the life of Mary Prince, who grew up as a slave; mistreated for years. This incident was about a jar that accidently slipped from Mary’s hands and broke, but accidents for slaves deemed for cruel punishment, rarely sympathy was given. This makes you wonder how a slave felt during the slavery period, the thoughts running through their head, the fear in their…

ABOUT Rachel Ritfeld is born in Suriname, South America and is of mixed Indian and Black Caribbean heritage. She moved to Belgium at age 10 with her mother who worked for the Surinamese Embassy in Brussels. It was here, that Rachel was scouted on the streets of Brussels by a model scout who signed her at age 15. Rachel was instantly in love with the catwalk. Keen to get an education, she moved to Brighton in England at age 17 to go to University where she majored in Social Anthropology at the…

Eliza Pickeny was the daughter of George Lucas who was a British Army lieutenant-colonel and lieutenant governor of Antigua. They do not know that much about her mother. When she was young her father sent her to school which was odd for a women in that era of time. While her father was in the war she had to control the plantations that her farther owned. She teaches of the African American women to read and write so they can teach there kids. She is known for having a lot of plantations for…

inappropriate things. She said that was the only true time that she felt unsafe and uncomfortable. Nidhi moved on from Michigan State University and put the experiences of discrimination that she spoke of behind her. After completing med school in Antigua, Nidhi is currently at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute in Baltimore, MD performing clinical research. Nidhi explained to me in our conversation of how openly welcome she feels at Johns Hopkins and the city of Baltimore itself being a…