Germany’s U-boat warfare was another reason for Cuba’s entry into the war. This warfare was aggressive against all neutral peoples, the principles of humanity, and the principles of justice. Under these threats, they had no choice but to go to war. Another reason to go to war was the sugar trade. Cuba had to use a Swedish ruse to safely and successfully ship sugar, an ingredient in bomb-making, to Britain and France.
Unfair trade rules forced on poor countries by the World Bank and IMF are having a disastrous effect on local farmers and are putting many of them out of business. Photographer Ian Berry travelled to Ghana with Christian Aid to document the impact of current international trade rules on farmers, traders and poor communities as they struggle to sustain their livelihoods. Just as the 18th century slave trade was about the abuse of economic power and foreign control, so international trading relations between rich and poor countries is much the same today. Is this trading injustice just a modern day slave trade? One of the most striking images of the exhibition was taken with Cape Coast Castle as an imposing backdrop to a thriving local fishing community.
The Spanish Inquisition occurred at this time as well, in which people that didn’t convert to Catholicism were tortured and killed or put into slavery. This is the world that Columbus and his men lived and worked in. Columbus was an Italian explorer and ex-slave trader that had a hard time convincing someone to finance his voyage. He finally convinced the king and queen of Spain to commission him Admiral of the Ocean Sea and to provide money, men, and ships for his voyage. In this deal he would sail under the flag of Spain and would receive a share of the profits secured from whatever lands he reached in Asia.
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.
From what the American sailors could see, the slaves freed themselves, took the machetes found on the cargo of the ship, and rioted and many of slave traders on-board where assassinated. American authorities took charge of the ship, and made it sail to American territory. When they got to New York City, translators spoke with the remaining crew of the ship; and thus the story the sailors lived unfolded: The slaves were acquired on Havana City, Cuba by the captain. The slaves were bought from a well-known slave trader that had already a big influence on the market; Mr. Shaw (after the declaration of the sailors, “Mr. Shaw” is being looked for by the authorities, with a warrant of arrest for ilegal trading).
Originally founded by Separatists fleeing religious intolerance in Europe, these colonies quickly became known for their rigid standards of faith. The 17th century ended with the infamous Salem Witch Trials, during which dozens of citizens were imprisoned and punished for their alleged practice of witchcraft; many men and women were executed for this crime. With the dawn of the 18th century, a change could be seen in this region. As more and more European merchants and settlers came to make their future in the New World, the sober piety and religious fervor of the Puritans gave way to an industrious “Yankee” mindset, focused on financial gain and commercial enterprises. This paradigm shift, together with the widely varying national origins of settlers to this region, created an entirely different culture within this “melting pot” region.
However, the organized crime families in American began long before this. “Piracy was the result of the British rulers employing a number of seafaring buccaneers to attack and disrupt Spanish shipping to defend the American Colonies. The pirates, who were referred to as privateer soon began to attack ships other than Spanish and form alliances with corrupt governors of the colonies” (Mallory, 2007 p. 16). One does not usually see the connection between pirates and organized crime unless one studies the characteristics of organized crime. Some of the following are a few examples of the characteristics of organized crime according to Mallory (2007), Governed by rules and codes of secrecy, Has an organized hierarchy, Uses force and intimidation, Restricts membership, and Provides illegal goods and services as demanded by the public.” These are
The writers of the Declaration of Independence appeal to pathos through the word choice in their list of the King’s wrongdoings. Phrases such as “swarms of Officers to harass our people”, “waging War against us”, “plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people”, “death, desolation, and tyranny”, and “Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages” use emotional language to passionately berate the King for the injustices
This thought is also, seen through the strategic naming of the slave ships name; the Republic. It seems that the boat faces many physical hardships with weather and course and is wrecked. With a name that means, a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens, ironically it is everything but. Neither the crew nor “cargo” has any power, thus far in the novel. Also in the text, Captain Ebenezer Falcon says that “the mind is made for murder,” which foreshadows, while showing more Buddhist traces, that man is subconsciously bad natured.
EXAMINING THE SPANISH BLACK LEGEND A new understanding The Spanish Black Legend is a term which was used by Spanish intellectual, Julian Juderías in his 1914 book, “The Black Legend and Historical Truth”. He describes a propaganda campaign which had its roots in 16th century Europe. [1] Northern Europeans loathed Catholic Spain and envied its American empire. They published books and gory engravings that depicted Spanish colonization as uniquely barbarous: an orgy of greed, slaughter and papist depravity. Historians theorize that the English and the Dutch employed and encouraged the legend as part of their efforts to undermine the Spanish Empire.