HUMA 1860 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Gie, Nationstates, Jean-Paul Sartre
28 Feb 2017
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Prior to 1800 there was little foreign influence in africa aside from some portuguese trading posts set up along the west side of africa. Over the course of the nineteenth century the slave trade was carried on by various. Western nations and also by the arabs in east africa and across the sahara. Origins of the slave trade lie in the tobacco, sugar, and cotton plantations in brazil, the. (cid:862)i(cid:374) so(cid:373)e degree the religious effe(cid:272)ts of slavery were deeply shaped by whether the importing culture was catholic or protestant. If it was catholic, as in haiti and brazil, then it was possible in some degree to integrate african religions with the cult of saints. The ritual of baptism, the idea of being possessed by god, and the imagery of spirituals (cid:449)ere (cid:449)a(cid:455)s of e(cid:454)pressi(cid:374)g a (cid:373)i(cid:454)ed (cid:272)ulture(cid:863) (cid:894)5(cid:1007)(cid:1011)(cid:895). Province in south africa former seat of the zulu empire, which was much larger.
