Blog #6

Blog #6

     The video left me thinking and Patrice Lumumba was the best thing standing for the people of Congo. If the enemy concentrated on the power and control he had the more they became threatened and very fearful; intimidated basically.  AS I learned prior to this video there was again the word” greed”, Africa had valuable goods like Diamonds, Cooper, Gold , Iron, and Zinc, just to name  a few.

     Lumumba felt that Congo would be better off if independent of Belgium, and allow the Congolese people run it themselves. He was also a seller of beer that he himself started making and selling, that would later turn out to be not good for the people. The selling of the bad beer would help Lumumba to become popular and known to the tribes in Congo. The beer was known by hear say too be bad and this was the rumors that was floating around for people to wonder who Patrice Lumumba. Lumumba was the prime minister and that gave him the authority to control the separation of the tribes. The separation would later cause problems amongst the tribes, some thought they were better, or believed to be better than other tribes.

     Lumumba was later assassinated, after escaped and travel to different towns to give knowledge of what he believed as a leader, he lost a couple town that no longer trusted him. The CIA and the FBI played a major role in his death because of his power and how he had so many followers to support him.  He was a man that would try to promote what he believed the most and how it could help his people.

    

Blog #5

Blog #5

Europeans took over Africa, as they took over they were labeling the African as strong and powerful, which left the Europeans threatened. Then they discovered that there were valuable sources that could of great resources in Africa.  Clearly, their adventure s became sources for a wealth of information about Africa’s geography, culture, and degree in African cultural advancement and technical  conditions, as well  nature of continents’ resources (rubber, cotton, coffee, iron, gold, diamonds, palm and peanut oil, ivory, fish, animals skin,) all of which could enhance the European “industrial revolution”. (Azvedo p. 111) The only way to intrude and took over was to enslave the Africans and later trade the valuable resources or commodities they later had to offer. Their way of making a profit was to work the salves with hard labor and no pay, to continue to produce the goods in the fields and out in the bush to collect the rubber.

Then soon to follow was the end to slavery and there were other problems, such as prejudice, KKK, segregation and white supremacy. This held on a long time, when South Africa was trying to come together and not go against each other the Europeans would cease all togetherness. There was also a racist situation going on within the people of South Africa and the Government; Political officials, which created an Apatide, or a separation.

Blog #4

Blog #4

In the article Ethnic Slave Rebellions in the Caribbean and the Guianas it discusses the different ethnic groups in the Caribbean and the northern South America.  There were different attitudes and the behaviors associated also with the geographical locations of the different ethnic groups. The reason they were being rebellious and the some of the drastic repercussion behind the behaviors. 

Some examples given from the article were the way the Creoles, because they were born in the New World and they were imbedded in a culture that they discovered on their own. They were considered different or better, they considered themselves better than the Africans. “The Creoles looked at the Africans as lower than and called them “salt-water Negroes” (journal of history, p.376) 

The article also mentions the social political and the economic portion of the slavery time and how important it was to the owners. The importance of the way they communicated with the Government and the other ethnic groups such as the second group, the Maroons they were in years of intermittent warfare and they were dragged to the mountains in islands. In Maroon they ethnic group there were more Akan group.  Another name for the Maroon were also “Bush Negros”, everyone had a degrading name based on their geographical location. 

Based on my examples I believe the mindset of the slaves were to be rebellious due the turmoil that was going on during this time.  The way they were separated, the way the women were forced to mother their children and live with; a child of a slave owner. Also they mindset was determined by the following factors: having more status maybe because one comes from a dominating ethnic group or having more skills and/ or perform more responsible work.

AFS Blog #3

AFS Blog #3

     As I read a beginning to understand the history of the slave trade as it started with the Portuguese approximately in the 14^th century.

     Slavery and servitude are two different things. Servitude (Africans) paid for their services, or the money went towards their land usage. (European- Americans) were servants; they could be free, or out of debt. Black or Africans could not be free. Some white man tried to make slavery sound good by changing the context. Slave trade on Africa, one of the riches places was torn apart because of the riches the European, Spaniards, and Portuguese found their families were torn about, government was diminished. Slavery was an economic move for the Europeans and if we go all the way back, when Europeans took land from the Indians, they enslaved them, well white people got the small pox from immigrants (English), and killed a lot of Indians and whites, so the land they had needed someone to work them, to make money.  Well, when they discovered Africa, they did not understand the Africans and thought they lived like savages and were dumb. In some manner they were because they showed them things (tools, etc) they had never seen and had them trade (or assist) in the capturing of other Africans.

     There the Ashanti people they migrated to the southern parts of Ghana, where their population were in the millions. They were labeled and referred to as ignorant and dumb per the Europeans, which was connected to the language of “Twi”.

      In addition there was the Intra-Africa slave trade was defined as “domestic slaves usually became the part of the kinship group of family of their masters (Azevedo, 75).” This also was an example of how women and children were incorporated in the slave owners’ dwellings to do the domestic work such as in the kitchen, house cleaning and servicing the owners.

     Another example from the chapter was the high millions of Africans that were involved in the slave trade and many that did not make it due to unfortunate circumstances.” curtains arguments pay little attention to the same number of lives lost during wars and raids in the interior and Middle Passage (or the long voyage from Africa to the New World)”. (Azevedo, p77)

     During the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade this did not create a friendly or loving atmosphere for many of the Africans. Therefore the Africans grew a hatred for the Europeans and some if the Africans that help plot this madness. They were to blame for many of the downfalls within the race. They were to blame for the separation of families and the downsizing of continued population.