" In the introduction the author guides us through her history of Sierra Leone and how she never really heard the story of the Amistad revolt, as she would have liked too. ... She connects the Amistad revolt to Charles Johnson's novel "Middle Passage" and Melvin Tolson's poem that has the same name. ... By connecting the Amistad revolt with other major slave revolts led by Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner, Iyunolu Osagie reminds us that these actions symbolized the "unthinkable" for a European and American structure that had no place for African support or humanity. ... S...

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How did they live and what did it mean to be snatched from their homeland? ... 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. In Jamaica the word shipmate was used by a slave and meant "brother" or "sister" a word of affection used to demonstrate the strength of the bond forged on the passage between slaves. ... This can be evidenced by the change in how slaves lived within a "nuclear family", the changes in child-rearing practices, and with the intro...

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A huge part of what and how our economy was built back in the eighteenth century was due to the 'golden age' of slavery. ... This question 'is free labour more profitable that slave labour, is a question that is ethically difficult to answer but when we look in to the history of our economy I believe it was. ... Then there are the redemptioners; these people were mainly immigrants from Europe who would sell themselves to work on the ship to gain passage to American colonies. ... One of the consequences that came from slavery was racism, although this wasn't its intent thi...

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To pose the question differently, why slavery, and why were the slaves carried across the Atlantic exclusively African? The short answer to the first of these two questions is that European expansion to the Americas was to mainly tropical and semi-tropical areas. ... One possible answer draws on the different values of societies around the Atlantic and, more particularly, the way groups of people involved in creating a trans-Atlantic community saw themselves in relation to others in short, how they defined their identity. Ocean-going technology brought Europeans into large-scale face-to-face ...

• Word Count: 4994
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