1. Guns, germs and steel
Work began on new Castle Brewery site in Isando, east of Johannesburg-the largest brew house in Africa and one of the most modern in the world. In 1955, discriminatory excise duty structures favor spirits and prejudice beer, making it the most heavily taxed beverage in South Africa. ...
Allowed by their owners to bring up their children and organize their domestic lives, they carried out their chores, cooking, making clothes, and their leisure activities all within distance of their masters house enabled the slave community to flourish. ... The white man viewed the slaves as pagans; seen as an unhealthy mix of superstitious beliefs in spirits, powers of curing and casting spells the slaves religious beliefs made it easier to justify condemning them to a life of servitude. ... Believing that the spirits had the power to make good or bad things happen West Africans used pr...
A woman's job is in the house, taking care of the children, preparing the meals and growing easy crops. ... In comparison, Achebe rebuts Conrad's claim that Africa is the place of darkness by showing Umuofians' fear of night, because it holds evil "spirits" and "dangerous animals become even more sinister and uncanny in the dark." ...
Bill Fisher History 20: American civilization before 1877 With the arrival of twenty Africans at Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, the history of African-Americans in this country began. At first, they were indentured servants as were many white colonists. Ignorance and prejudice soon chan...