AAS 267 Lecture 1: AAS Notes
24 Dec 2015
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Christianity spread to ethiopia in the 3rd and 4th century from those seeking asylum from the roman empire. Portuguese empire attempted to convert congolese people into christians (catholics) Malian empire (mansa musa) were flourishing with natural resources and maintained a literate society. African traditional religions fused with european christianity in order to institute a more. 12 million slaves transported across the atlantic world. The cultural differences of europeans and africans. Elmina castle (ghana), door of no return. Atlantic world is a multidirectional zone of exchange that connects all the continental masses that border the atlantic ocean. Race does not precede the transatlantic slave trade. People that come and initiate the slave trade in africa do not think of themselves as commonly white. Equiano did not believe that people of the same skin color were in the same race as him. The african identity does not exist at the time. The slave ship is a modern factory of race.
