One of the biggest issues facing African historians is the fact that the study of actual African History is relatively new. A large majority of the sources available are written from the point of view of Europeans‚ with an intended audience of Europeans.1 In this egocentric method of reporting history‚ Africans were viewed more as objects: a people with a past but no history.2 The written “historical” sources provided by imperialists robbed Africans of their voice. The principal challenge facing
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North American shores. Soon afterwards‚ the Trans-Atlantic slave trade would become a massive empire connecting three continents. Through stories of individuals caught in its net‚ like a 10-year-old girl named Priscilla who was transported from Sierra Leone to South Carolina in the mid-18th century‚ tracing the appearance of plantation slavery in the American South. The late 18th century saw a global explosion of freedom movements‚ and The Black Atlantic examines the Era of Revolutions American‚ French
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particular ethnic community. -Also in 1990s was the rise of an ethnic state. Ethiopia- political power is distributed based on ethnic groups. -Militarization of ethnicity: rise of ethnic militias that create wars/civil wars/violence. Ex: Sierra Leone‚ Liberia‚ & Rwanda (genocide in 1994). Also DRC. Ex: Somalia- became a heaven for radically religious activities. In 1991- there were clan warfare’s that destroyed the state. “Me against my brother” “me and my brother against my family.” “My
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Organization of Violence in Postcolonial African Cities." Cultural Anthropology. Volume 22 #3 August 2007. pp. 400–428 It all started December 24‚ 1989 when a rebels group lead by Charles Taylor. Enter Monrovia through Nimba county and Freetown Sierra Leone many innocent children died ‚ so many properties was destroyed ‚ the weakness of this article many government official were killed‚ no foods‚ no water. The United Nations never try help or step in to stop the war. The strength of this article
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directly tied to the increased demand for the gathering of raw materials from Africa (Freund 54). This slave trade created a new manner of trader who worked as an intermediary between European traders and African slaveholders‚ such as could be found in Sierra
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Vessel Name Year Arrived with Slaves Principal Region of Slave Purchase Principal Region of Slave Landing Duke of Argyle 1751 Windward Coast Antigua African 1753 Windward Coast St. Kitts African 1754 Sierra Leone St. Kitts With the information provided‚ complete the following chart: (Hint: the Summary Statistics tab will make this easier) Number of Voyages Number of Slaves Embarked Number of Slaves Disembarked Percentage who died on voyage Length
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White conceptions of enslavement by Britain: In the wake of the Stamp Act crisis‚ some Americans began to speak and write about a plot by British leaders to enslave them. In their view‚ the opposite of liberty was slavery‚ the condition of being under someone else’s control. A Maryland writer warned that if the colonies lost “the right of exemption from all taxes without their consent‚” that loss would “deprive them of every privilege distinguishing freemen from slaves.” Slavery was a concept with
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It involves large‚ rich‚ prosperous countries such as the United Kingdom‚ the USA‚ France and Russia selling weapons to other countries. Over 75% of the weapons sold by the UK in 1989 were sold to poor‚ developing countries such as South Korea‚ Sierra Leone and Liberia. At first‚ there may seem to be nothing wrong with this common practice but a closer look reveals the brutality and horror behind this industry. As I previously said the majority of the weapons are sold to impoverished countries
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on all of his voyages. (questions 3–5) Vessel Name Year Arrived with Slaves Principal Region of Slave Purchase Principal Region of Slave Landing Duke of Argyle 1751 Windward Coast Antigua African 1753 Windward Coast St. Kitts African 1754 Sierra Leone St. Kitts With the information provided‚ complete the following chart: (Hint: the Summary Statistics tab will make this easier) Number of Voyages Number of Slaves Embarked Number of Slaves Disembarked Percentage who died on voyage Length
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years old. I have just come off of a train transporting me to a plantation in America. I have been separated from all of my family (my mother‚ father‚ my brother and my sister) and I am most likely going to a different plantation. I was living in Sierra Leone when I got kidnapped. My tribe was a peaceful one‚ and we weren’t in any wars at the time‚ but while all of our tribe was asleep‚ another tribe ambushed us in the middle of the night. Our tribe leader was killed in the attack and about half of
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