HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Royal African Company, Coromantee, Oroonoko
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More women learned how to read, technological advancements. At the end of the first half, boarded a slave ship. Very stage/theater style, similar to that of shakespeare. England just beginning to expand into new world . Expanding colonies, spread through bargaining, contract, for individual profit. Slave trade institutionalized in 1660 by royal charter. Labor for plantations in barbados, jamaica, surinam: Empires are like binaries, it"s we and they, civilized and the barbarian. Language uses binaries; is the partner of empire in part because it works through binary oppositions (edward said), english language = a recipe for domination that denies human complexity (appropriation vs. adaptation) When binaries are broken down, language survives, then can be used to challenge and critique empire. 11) ruled by nature, and nature is the most harmless, virtuous mistress, first state of innocence. No lies (at least by indigenous peoples) Illusion of female power but women are subservient, possessed, valued for virginity and as property.
