1. Slavery and the Middle Passage
For example the white men brought over new forms of technology that they traded with the Africans, which furthered the Africans culture and in return allowed the white men to keep going on their journey. ... The whites being the intruders exploited the natives. ... Money was also used to bribe the natives so that they would join the expedition. ... For example in the scene where the Natives see the English holding cloth they hold their arms. ...
Although Rosa is committed to her native country, her father will go to greater lengths to ensure justice is won in the end. ... Rosa finds freedom in France, leaving her native country, where no one except her cousin see her as what she is back where she comes from. ... When she is imprisoned upon her return to South Africa, it is a result of her own choice. ...
Along his journey, he encounters a number of hypocritical and exasperating Europeans, pitiable natives, and a jungle that takes on a life force of its own. ... This selection is a very cynical comment on how Europeans performed in the Congo surrounded by disease, natives, and the jealous ambitions of their fellow Anglo-males. ... (Hampson XXX) Marlow's realization that the Europeans bringing light to the natives is not the case, but instead of bringing light into darkness as imperialism claims, the civilizing' mission actually uncovers the darkness' at its own heart. ...
In return for bringing Spain gold, Columbus was promised 10% of profits, governorship over newfound lands, and the fame that would go with new title: Admiral of the Ocean sea. Also, as the prototypical Western white male, Columbus carried across the Atlantic racist prejudices against the native people. ...
By setting aside their forced leaving of their native Africa the slaves emerged with new identities with local roots but all based on their strong cultural belief and need for kinship. ... Unfortunately for the Anglican ministers they did not have much success at this time and returned home bemoaning their failure to convert no more than a handful of slaves. ...
Arrowheads are reminders of the past, Native Americans used them centuries ago to survive. ... This shiny object covered in the black enamel of this meaningless world can be chiseled away and return it to its original value of meaning. ... The color in the post-apocalyptic world gives hope that the world can someday return to what it was, a vibrant color filled haven. ...
Music had always been a primary component of black South Africa's extended fight against racial desegregation and when the white colonial government instituted the Native Lands Act of 1913, forcing the black peasantry off its own farms and reapportioning less than 15 percent of the country's land to over 80 percent of its native population, the band Caluza's "Silusapho Lwase Afrika (We Are The Children of Africa)" was adopted as an early anthem of the ANC due to its passionate chorus. ...
Although there had been a British and greater European presence in Africa prior to the last two decades of the 19th century it was primarily coastal and revolved around the slave trade. With the abolition of the slave trade within the British Empire in 1803 and a complete abolition of slavery across the empire in 1834 there was little interest in Africa by Britain until the end of the century. This lack of interest in Africa did not include The Cape Colony though, which the British gained at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and which served a key role in outfitting ships on the British trade rou...
The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribe in what is now the republic of Kenya. ... The word "Kikuyu" serves as the name of a native tribe in Kenya. ... The poet also describes a centuries-old hunting custom of natives walking in a line through the long grass and beating it to flush out prey. Such killing for sustenance is set against the senseless and random death that native Africans and European settlers perpetrate upon each other. ... During ...
The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late a...
The same idea of de-humanization of the Africans is present throughout Heart of Darkness as well, where the natives of the Congo are repeatedly called "savages." ... In Heart of Darkness Kurtz had hundreds of Africans working for him bringing in ivory and these people got nothing in return but terror. ...