Generation Of Captivity Analysis
The history of African Americans has been studied by many historians and scholars that have presented their evolution from many perspectives and focusing on different things. The present essay aims to explore the works of Ira Belin and Lawrence Levine, who provide different points of view to look at the slavery and post-slavery societies and their consequences on the lives of black Americans.
Generations of captivity: A history of African American Slaves explores slavery in a more profound way, describing it not only as a process of oppression and dehumanization to the African people, but also as a period in which it was possible to develop new ways of living, creating bonds and to build a strong community united by the experience of enslavement. …show more content…
Despite this, Levine was able to collect a diverse range of oral and written expressions that allowed them to develop an analysis focused on the relation of the cultural expressions to the social and historical context of African.
Generations of captivity provides a historical approach to slavery as an experience that shaped the lives of slaves and African American in many aspects, and also influenced the construction of their identity. Initially conceived as an economic process, slavery brought wider consequence and became to a dehumanizing process that altered and transformed the lives of millions of Africans and African Americans for over three hundred years.
In order to do this, Berlin makes a different between societies with slaves and slave societies and also divides his study into three regions that present similar social structures in order to chronologically narrate the trajectories of slaves, slave-owners and non-slave-owners in the United States, focusing on the slave but without leaving the other social actors out of the …show more content…
To Berlin “(…) slaves transformed their experience into a culture that joined them together as a class and distinguished them from their owners” . Ira Berlin, then, does not only speak about the slave from his condition of slave , but as a human being capable of creating a different type of
Generations of captivity: A history of African American Slaves explores slavery in a more profound way, describing it not only as a process of oppression and dehumanization to the African people, but also as a period in which it was possible to develop new ways of living, creating bonds and to build a strong community united by the experience of enslavement. …show more content…
Despite this, Levine was able to collect a diverse range of oral and written expressions that allowed them to develop an analysis focused on the relation of the cultural expressions to the social and historical context of African.
Generations of captivity provides a historical approach to slavery as an experience that shaped the lives of slaves and African American in many aspects, and also influenced the construction of their identity. Initially conceived as an economic process, slavery brought wider consequence and became to a dehumanizing process that altered and transformed the lives of millions of Africans and African Americans for over three hundred years.
In order to do this, Berlin makes a different between societies with slaves and slave societies and also divides his study into three regions that present similar social structures in order to chronologically narrate the trajectories of slaves, slave-owners and non-slave-owners in the United States, focusing on the slave but without leaving the other social actors out of the …show more content…
To Berlin “(…) slaves transformed their experience into a culture that joined them together as a class and distinguished them from their owners” . Ira Berlin, then, does not only speak about the slave from his condition of slave , but as a human being capable of creating a different type of