HISTORY 197 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Marcus Rediker, Olaudah Equiano, Atlantic Slave Trade
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Brotherhood > social relationships beyond the colour line. Categories of blackness and whiteness are made > transatlantic slave trade. Efficiency > maximizing profit > rationalizing economy of racial slave trade (above humanity) How opposes (compete against logic of) transatlantic slave trade > used by abolitionist society. Gross violation of human rights > focus of individual humanity among each number within the mass statistics. Medallion image (black man on knee in shackels; am i not a man and a brother? ) Focused on end of slave trade, not slavery. Anti-slave trade abolitionist movement = first modern humanitarian campaign. Am i not a man and a brother? > question posed for parliament to pass law. What it means for african american communities to be presented as christian > what african peoples choose to do with christianity. Going on during creation of this coin (1791-1804) First successful slave rebellion/revolt for slaves living in hispaniola (haiti + dominican republic)
