Indies

over Virginia, as crops were planted in the streets of Jamestown and even between the numerous graves.”(27) Slave Trade The slave trade system led to a vast population of Africans in the West Indies. “By about around 1700, black slaves outnumbered white settlers in the English West Indies by nearly four to one, and the region’s population has remained predominately black ever since. Representative Government The House Of Burgesses led to the development of many other self…

search of the Spanish silver fleet (Funk, 1, “Hawkins, Sir John”). It is said that he died on a trip to the West Indies (Funk, 1, “Hawkins, Sir John”). The day of his death was November 12, 1595 (Britannica School). On this expedition, he was with Sir Francis Drake (Funk, 1, “Hawkins, Sir Richard”). He and Drake were in command of about twenty-seven ships, prepared to raid the West Indies. He was said to die the night before an unsuccessful attack (Funk, 1, “Hawkins, Sir John”). John Hawkins,…

return, the dance world was influenced majorly by the “white race” and the styles only consisted of Jazz, Ballet and Modern (The Katherine Dunham Center for the Arts and Humanities). She brought the ethnic and cultural dances she learned from the West Indies and the Caribbean culture to the United States where she created her own technique. Due to the dance world being largely influenced by “white culture”, she wanted to show the world that there are other styles that are just as beautiful and…

before God? And he told me, answering was a thing of another world, what he thought and did were policy” (chapter 5 about 12 pages in). So while the Christian morals suggest that you should treat others how you would like to be treated, in the West Indies, cruelty was just a way of life for the local slave owners. Trying to understand how Christians can act so un Christian like leads him to believe that “Such a tendency has the slave trade to debauch men’s minds, and harden them to every feeling…

The excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, by Olaudah Equiano, touches upon the treatment and lives of slaves in the West Indies. Through this short excerpt the reader learns about what he saw while he was a slave in the West Indies islands. Not only are there very few primary sources that have survived from the eighteenth century to modern day, but also there are hardly any sources that come from the viewpoint of a well-educated, free slave. When reading this…

Between 9.4 and 12 million slaves were sold during the triangular trade between England Africa and the Americas. The triangular trade, also known as the Atlantic slave trade, was named after its three-sided trading. This trading route had a massive impact on the areas that it connected. There are multiple legs and routes of this trade. There are three legs and four different routes. The first route was from England to Africa to the Americas. On the first leg to Africa from England, there was…

Thesis: Due to Transculturation reasons we can appreciate and illustrate the impact of the Spanish culture over the indies. Not only but also demonstrate the idea of obedezco pero no cumplio and its effects over the Spanish hegemony over the indigenous population. My primary sources have evidence of transculturation models over the Indies including the Spanish hegemony and effect on this indigenous population. Americans and Europeans cultures transformed and created New cultures that were…

once said: “By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, once may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.” This quote may seem ironic because Columbus never truly reached his intended destination, the Indies. Instead, what Columbus believed to be the Indies was actually America. On October 12, 1492, the day Columbus reached the New World, everything changed for Columbus, and he never even knew it. Columbus was born on October 31, 1451, in Genoa, Italy. He was the son of…

up again between England and Spain, the queen gave Drake command of a fleet of 25 ships. He sailed to the West Indies and the coast of Florida and mercilessly plundered Spanish ports there. After a failed exploration in Portugal in 1589, Drake returned home to England for several years, until Queen Elizabeth enlisted him for one more voyage, against Spanish possessions in the West Indies in early 1596. The expedition proved to be a dismal failure: Spain fended off the English attacks. He died in…

In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, mise en scene is used in the end of the opening sequence to show the disconnect between Indy and his father, even when young Indy brings back a priceless treasure. The fact that the father is seated facing away from young Indiana represents the divide between father and son. Young Indiana bringing back the archeological discovery acts as a foreshadow to later…