1. A Far Cry From Africa by Derek Walcott
(Thornton, 1992) To ensure the security and protect themselves against outsiders -especially opposing tribes- , the clans needed to gain dominance in military technology which they obtained by slave trade. ... After a while, it had no potential to resist superior outsiders to cease the slave trafficking. ...
The recent Ebola epidemic is an example of how historical systems still impact the modern world on a global scale. These structures have affected parts of the globe in different ways and are apparent in the responses to Ebola. Colonialism and slavery are just some of the systems that had long-term c...
Historically, the earliest coastal communities practiced iron working, and were mainly subsistence farmers and river fishers, who supplemented their economy with hunting, keeping livestock, fishing in the ocean, and trading with outsiders. ...
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 as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...