HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Orlando Patterson, Cassava, Nonperson
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Hist 122: week 11 lecture notes (nov 22, 2017) A genealogical isolate: socially isolated from family, culturally isolated from ancestors. I"ll put you in my pocket : slaves are a cashable commodity, symbols of alienation, an alienated, deracinated, social non-person, perpetuity and inheritability. Slavery is the permanent, violent domination of natally alienated and generally dishonoured persons orlando patterson. African slavery: african system of slavery, african measure of wealth. Integration of slaves in the clan: the atlantic slave trade, 1500s-1800s. The middle passage (africa-americas: middle passage under horrific conditions, 3-6 weeks, mortality initially high, often more than 50%, eventually declined to 5, total slave traffic, 15th-18th c = 12 million, ~4 million killed before arrival. Social change in early modern africa: new goods in africa, new crops from americas, manioc becomes staple bread flour, population growth despite slave trade. Political effects of slave trade: firearms and increased violence, weapon-slave vicious cycle, dahomey people create army dedicated to slave trade.