The captains of the ship saw this as a loss of potential profit and had them returned to the land to be cared for until the ship was ready to depart. ... Death, especially for the women was not only seemed as a liberation from the extreme conditions of slavery but, regarding t their African beliefs, as a means of escape permitting the dead to return to their native land. ...
Crusoe, like many British Colonists, saw the 'Moor' people as inferior, and even savage like, so Crusoe would have felt little remorse about leaving the young boy for dead. ... After setting up his plantation in Brazil, Robinson Crusoe had three servants working on the land. ... Crusoe begins to consider the areas of the island which he believed would be the most wholesome, and is intelligent enough to realise that he should move further inland in order to find the more prosperous land for growing food16. ...
Ironically, the same story the white Christians connected with in motivating themselves for separation from England was used by the slaves in motivating them for their eventual release from their current oppressive ruler ship.7 While white Christians saw themselves as the New Israel they were at the same time enslaving people who considered themselves the current Old Israel, waiting to be delivered from their oppression through faith in God.8 For white America, similarities to convince them of their relation to the Israelites consisted of "the bondage in Egypt, the rescue at the Red Sea, the...
Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. The originality of the system resides in the fact that the dynamic elements of society, whose discontent might have engendered revolution, are really satisfied with their social condition and do not seek to change it: a man of so- called "inferior caste" would categorically refuse to enter a so- called "superior" one....
