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Interpreting Africans Contributions through Primary Sources The transatlantic slave trade was a period in history in which many Africans slaves contributed to the economical boost and social changes of the Americas. James Sweet and Judith Carney both showed the impacts that Africans had in the Americas with the help of primary sources such as books, researches, visuals, and documentaries in order to produce an interpretation of the contributions that Africans brought by innovating the…

In the creation of the Transatlantic slave trade, there was a popular feeling from both sides over the untrustworthiness of their allies and/or the slaves traded due to the dress, language, manner, etc. that the other presented as well as their pigment of skin. Throughout the slave trade, there was a need for co-operation to maintain the trade, to keep up with the rising demand from European colonies that needed labor for plantations. The slave trade depended entirely upon the relationship…

Kanong Vang The New Atlantic World During the colonial period, Europeans and Africans arrived to the Americas. Europeans in the fifteenth century did not have the necessary tools and economic resources to overcome the wilderness. However, when Europeans and Africans arrived to the New World they did not find wilderness but a civilization that has been created many years before already by the Native Americans. “Even in places that Europeans regarded as primordial wilderness there is evidence…

While reading Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s, essay, Delusions of Grandeur, It became clear that there is in fact an awful truth which takes place within the United States today. Throughout the essay Gates accurately depicts the truth that young African American students are being drawn towards success in sports, rather than success in school. The essay emphasizes that African American students are not the only group that needs to be aware of this issue, but all Americans as well. Although Gates has…

The question of why the Dutch became involved in the Transatlantic slave trade should be clear to us now. The Dutch currently controlled Northern Brazil, but did not have a labor source to work the sugarcane plantations. The question of how this came about will presently be addressed. But before doing this, it should be noted that Dutch citizens and corporations had been involved in the slave industry long before the WIC or even the VOC came into existence and represented the Netherlands in the…

The Diligent was written by Robert Harms and discusses the fifteen-month voyage of the Diligent to Martinique, including the world of the Atlantic slave trade. In his book, Harms uses the recently “discovered” journal of First Lieutenant Robert Durand. The author of the book makes references to Durand’s journal as well as the overall Atlantic slave trade. The Diligent can be viewed as an accurate representation of what the Atlantic slave trade was like during the eighteenth century right down to…

Caribbean tourism is a highly contested topic with two extreme polar views on the same subject. This is a fact plain to see in plenty of articles, and this case with two texts that provide different stances on the topic of tourist development in the Caribbean is no exception. First, there is an advertisement of a 1950s The Great White Fleet’s cruise vacations to the Caribbean directed towards a class of rich, (and at the time, most likely Caucasian) travellers. On the other hand, text two is the…

Throughout the world various rebellions were happening for various reasons and they all were conducted in their own unique way. In “Freedom’s Mirror” Ada Ferrer looks at different points of anti-slavery rebellions that occurred in Cuba and Haiti and how they were linked together. Since Haiti was the first black led country and independent state founded by former slaves it is crucial that all aspects of the rebellions are taken into consideration. Several power imbalances are vividly compared as…

Planetary Perspectives (Pg. 1) The section points out that although the Earth has been a part of the universe for billions of years, the New World was only discovered 500 years ago. That is virtually nothing compared to the Earth. The American Republic has only been here for 239 years out of 4.6 billion. Key Terms American Republic - the United States Indirect Discoverers of The New World (Pg. 2) Although the Scandinavians landed in North America, it wasn 't until the Europeans landed there…

Queen Idia was a prominent figure in the Edo State of Nigeria who played an important role in Oba Esigie’s rise to power. Esigie had brass sculptures of her head made in order to recognize her military influence and achievements, and placed these heads in her alter after her death. In 1897, during the period in which Africa was under colonial rule by the British, British men “ransacked the Benin Empire” and forcefully took the heads away to display them as a representation of their imperial…