HIST 8B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Avocado
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Economy of brazil in the 19th century was through slavery. Most of those working in rio came from slave families. How characters in a place interact with the situations going on at the time. Focus first on the place and time period and then add people (how they lived, what they struggled with, socioeconomic aspects) Find a photograph (maybe of a place), use imagination based on info you already have. You can also find info about the photographer and then use that to shape your characters. Ideal to combine actual primary sources with what we read in the textbook. Avocado persuades lettuce and other fruits to join him in power. Threatened coconut, strawberry to become followers of him. One thrown in jail for criticizing the avocado. Mango is hero from falling down from tree and crushing avocado. Point: to criticize politics in latin america. Politics are mostly about force and messy events; military.
