November 16, 2011 AFAM 2A Dr. Milner & Dr. Wilson Hebu Sikukuu (Let Us Feast) Outline Introduction Many of the meals we eat today originated in parts of Africa as well as on slave plantations in the South. These meals have been passed down from generation to generation each having a symbolic meaning to the African American culture. During the days of slavery, slaves did not have a stable nor sufficient diet. They were fed scraps, mush and other discarded parts of their master’s meal, or sometimes created an entirely new meal out of their given portions. From crafting a baby broth to innovative cooking techniques; hoecakes, chitterlings (chittlins) and pot likker all had an influence on how we African Americans eat and prepare our food today.
South Africa is not only known for its huge instinctive appearance and civilization, but for its outstanding nutrient too. Few of the South African foods include crocodilian sirloin, fried caterpillars and evening ewe heads. Some African Americans avoid these foods, while others do anything to get the food. South Africa has so many different cultures and beliefs, you will also come to know that certain foods are eaten for various occasion. Snake meat is the most liked food in South Africa.
Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were taken and brought to America. The first colony to ever begin to use slaves was Jamestown, Virginia in the early 1600s. African American slaves helped build the foundation of the newly inhabited land called America. When the cotton gin of 1793 was invented the demand for slaves became a vital
This seems to very similar to those families that are African American, Afro- Caribbean, Afro- European and Afro- Canadian families. The family has much influence in the spheres of social reality and personal identity. The African family has many traits that are similar to other blacks around the world and that is “ Unlike the so called nuclear family in Western societies, the African family is a large , closely knit community of blood relatives that is constitutive of the life and destiny of each members”. As stated before families of African descent have a close sense of community not just African families. African families though differ from the African Diaspora though in that some of their community was build like tribes.
In the early as the 15 century, England passed from raising sheep and producing wool, an agricultural activity, to manufacturing cloth. This signaled the beginning of capitalist production. It is in capitalist production that we can locate the basic cause of the slave trade. The slave ship sailed from the home country with a cargo of manufactured goods. These were exchanged at a profit on the coast of Africa for Negroes, who were traded on the plantations, at another profit, in exchange for a cargo of colonial produce to be taken back to the home country.
The Creation of the African American Culture In Leland Ferguson's book Uncommon Ground, Ferguson uses historical archaeology as a lens to interpret African and African American history. Ferguson’s work focuses on sites and artifacts that are considered typical to, and characteristic of, enslaved persons’ lives on plantations in the United States. In 1740 Blacks in South Carolina outnumbered whites by almost two to one, and one half of that majority had been born in Africa. As slaves, they cleared forests, planted crops, and built homes; together with a surprising number of Native Americans. This book is about the obscured settlers who laid the foundation for African American culture; it is also about the recent beginning of African American Archaeology as a means for learning about that culture.
The first part of " The Triangular Slave Trade " route which was the voyage from Europe to Africa . Africans and Europeans slave traders bought enslaved Africans in exchanged for goods shipped from Europe .The second part of the " Triangular Slave Trade " was the voyage from Africa to America . This was often called " The Middle Passage " . This was the part of the triangle where enslaved Africans were forced and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the American people. The Africans that were sold were to work on plantations .
In fact, the chronology of the struggle by African Americans to be free from the shackles of slavery really started well over four hundred years ago. This essay will explore the broader history of events that document this struggle, from the 16th century until 1945, in order to illustrate that the Civil Rights Movement is a long-standing and continuing effort to ensure that African Americans have all of the same rights and privileges as do other ethnic and racial segments of our society. The history of slaves in America dates back to the time of Columbus. Around the time Columbus was making his famous voyage to this country, it was common practice for the Spanish to use African slaves (typically supplied by the Portuguese) to perform labor work in the various colonies of their empire in their first visits to America, the Spanish actually “saved on shipping” and picked up their slaves on the way from islands on the Caribbean. From a supply and demand standpoint, this policy only worked until approximately 1520, when the Spanish ran out of easily obtainable slaves in the islands close to the southeastern area of America.
The cloth made in the likes of Lancashire was then exported to British colonies including some parts of Africa and India. Birmingham became the centre of the arms trade to Africa during the Transatlantic Slave Trade with over 4000 gun makers. They began exporting guns in 1698 as a means of buying slaves, and also as a method of enforcing the Slave Trade. Sugar cane was described as ‘King Sugar’ in the Caribbean, where it became the most widely produced crop.
Unfortunately because of the struggle to survive the African people adopted slave trade and started capturing and trading their people for European goods. Portugal’s started slavery in the fourteenth century with West Africa. The West Europeans developed a trading system in the sixteenth century but it was not successful as expected because the slaves tried to escape the hardship of labor. Later slavery expanded leading to the” Triangle Trade.” This was where ships left Europe went to Africa and then Americas. The Middle Massage was called “The Middle Passage,” because it was the second and longest part of a three part triangle trade that started from Africa and ended in North and South America, and the Caribbean.