Europeans conquered America and then brought slaves from Africa and made their own benefits. They started a new political system named democracy, which is a good name to cover Plutocracy and deceiving common people by the word freedom, to reinforce their social power and positions. As this democracy, which was made by the elites, went on, the elites have conquered other parts of the world through war which seemed legitimate by democracy. Moreover, they have continued slavery that changed into the form of labor. American history has been continued by contradictions which are mixed by slavery, conquest, democracy, and freedom.
Amistad “Amistad”, a drama movie directed by Steven Spielberg, is about slavery issues during 1839 in the United States. This movie vividly illustrates America’s way of governing, its interactions between Spaniards and British officials, and most importantly, U.S. legal system during Martin Van Buren presidency, a slavery supporter. The movie is about captured Africans from Sierra Leone who are tricked by two surviving crew members Ruiz and Montez by sailing to the United States instead of sailing “home” to Africa, after the Africans take over the slave-ship “La Amistad”. As we know in 1839 the slavery is not abolished yet in the United States: blacks are seen as property, yet the African slave trade is considered illegal by this time. Hence, if the Africans could prove they are stolen into slavery, that is if they are from Africa, they have a chance to be free.
On his journey to free her he befriends an old man who reads his future and predicts that this is only the beginning of the hardship their people have to face. He attempts to trade in his life for hers but fails when the ruthless slave trader King Andanggaman imprisons them both. In the end they reveal where Ossei ends up and that King Andanggaman himself becomes a slave. Together, Ira Berlin and Andanggaman assess slavery in a new way, through the fusion of history and memory. History and memory can be narrowed down into two groups ordinary Americans as a representation of memory and Scholars representing history.
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain uses irony to portrays the flaws of “sivilization.” By spelling “sivilization” with an “s,” Twain shows how a society tries to be civilized, but isn’t and how civilization is wrong in the 19th century. He shows readers of how a “sivilized” person is a slave physically, mentally, or morally. The first form of slavery in a “sivilization” is physical slavery. Jim, a slave to Miss. Watson, tells Huck his plan of escaping slavery because he overheard Miss.
It can be related to the Haitian Revolution because the masters of the slaves and political figures were scared to get overthrown by the slaves, they also treated them harshly, and they arrested Toussaint L'Ouverture who was the leader of the revolt and freed slaves. This illustrates the political condition that the Haitian slaves had to overcome. In the economic aspect it went tumbling down because of the weapons for the war effort. In contrast to the Brazilian Revolution the Haitian Revolution was not as successful. The Brazilian Revolution was successful
A slave master named Willie Lynch created several rules about how to keep slaves from resisting and uprising.The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of a Slave states, “KEEP THE BODY, TAKE THE MIND!...In other words, break the will to resist...if you break the FEMALE mother, she willBREAK the offspring in its early years...Train the female horse whereby she will eat out your hand, and she will in turn train her infants to eat out of your hand, also. When it comes to breaking an uncivilized nigger, use the same process, but vary the degree and step up the pressure, so as to do a complete reversal of the mind(Lynch)” Willie Lynch debases the slaves by comparing them to horses by comparing the breaking of a horse to the breaking of an enslaved person. Lynch repeats the words break and mind constantly in this quote to make his main message clear: to break an enslaved person, the slave masters have to break the psyche of an enslaved person. This is significant because the strain and bend of the enslaved Africans’ minds left a form and constraint structure for future generations to follow. Therefore, some of the ways of division used on enslaved Africans are still in place today, 300 years after the Willie Lynch
The saying “… man’s dignity lies in thought … let us all strive to think …” (Endgame; 2009) can be viewed as another tactic to exploit the colonized mind. The focus on thinking instead on acting can be interpreted as a form of manipulation whereby the colonized one is kept away from his mission. The traditional image of the supremacy of the White invokes the concept of mimicry. The Euro-centric power is threatened after its long reign. The colonized experience of indoctrination has allowed the Africans to interiorize all changes and subverts them to fight back.
When an African American slave decides to start her own struggle in life, not even General Washington and his troops can stop her. “Chains,” by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a historical fiction novel that tells the story of a slave, Isabel Gardener and her fight for freedom. Isabel discovers her inner strength and her true power as she rises from slave to patriot and realizes her true potential. It all starts when Isabel’s kind mistress, Mrs. Finch, dies due to smallpox. Although she wrote in her will that Isabel and her little sister Ruth would be freed after her death, a wicked and greedy relative, Robert FInch decides to sell both orphans for a great deal of money.
Both novels involve the colonization of Africa, but each has its own perspective of the native’s response to it. Achebe is also accredited for presenting a lecture titled, “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”, which he gave at the University of Massachusetts in February 1975. This lecture attacks Conrad’s writing as racist and states that he dehumanizes Africans, denies them of proper language, and makes them out to be cannibals. Clearly infuriated by Conrad’s work, Achebe was prompted to write his own novel, Things Fall Apart to support the African people. In the novel, the life of a man named Okonkwo and the tribe of Umuofia is portrayed in three different sections, with each section representing an era in the tribe.
Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” contains many different underlying themes, one of which includes the evils of slavery. Melville shows this in Cereno as he “ attempts to strike a balance between people divided by race and class, thus speaking to the new multiracial readership of popular works on slavery” ( Melville 18). Slavery can bring out the evil in individuals when they try to gain dominate control over someone. The same can be said about the slaves about the San Dominick merchant ship. Babo, acting as the leader of the revolt, ordered the brutal slaying of any non useful sailors.