African History
Why Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
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Why were most slaves in America from West Africa? Slavery has existed throughout history in various forms across the globe, but who became enslaved was almost always based on military conquest. So why did Europeans travel thousands of miles to enslave people from a particular geographic region? Watch the episode to find out.
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Works Cited
The reaper’s garden: death and power in the world of Atlantic slavery Vincent Brown
Specters of the Atlantic: finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history Ian Baucom.
Hortense Spillers โMamaโs Baby, Papaโs Maybe: An American Grammar Bookโ
Jennifer Morgan Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/archaeology/background/
http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-02-03.htm
Saltwater Slavery Stephanie Smallwood
Saidiya Hartman
Scenes of Subjection
โVenus in Two Actsโ
Capitalism and Slavery Eric Williams
How Africa Developed Europe : Deconstructing the His-story of Africa, Excavating Untold Truth and What Ought to Be Done and Known Nkwazi Nkuzi Mhango
Theorising development in Africa: towards building an African framework of development Munyaradzi Mawere
Britainโs Black Debt Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide Hilary Beckles
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2015/09/slavery_myths_seven_lies_half_truths_and_irrelevancies_people_trot_out_about.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/misguided-focus-1619-beginning-slavery-us-damages-our-understanding-american-history-180964873/
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/caribbeanhistory/slavery-negotiating-freedom.htm
https://psmag.com/news/how-slavery-changed-the-dna-of-african-americans
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/on-african-american-migrations/
https://www.history.com/news/8-reasons-why-rome-fell
http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/smallpox.html
www.jstor.org/stable/274784.
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Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained.
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Helen Pluckrose outlines some of the arguments later explored in depth in her bestselling 2020 book, Cynical Theories (co-authored with James Lindsay). The essay charts the pernicious influence of postmodernist thinking on two generations of academics and activists. If you want to understand how we got to a place where microaggressions are denounced as violence but the brutal terrorism of an intifada is considered righteous, this is an important primer.
Iona Italia reads Helen Pluckrose’s essay published in Quillette: https://quillette.com/2024/05/07/how-french-intellectuals-ruined-the-west-foucault-lyotard-derrida/
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