HISTORY 197 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Atlantic World, Marcus Rediker, Edwidge Danticat
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Religion sounds singular, but it"s really plural (religions: importance of plurality. In us diference between secular and religious customs = blurry. Unit 1 going to recover history from 18th through the early 19th centuries. Transported routes carrying muliple kinds of people from africa into americas. Muliple kinds of scholarship view as spiritual holocaust: not only human beings being turned into things/commodiies, but also muliple views of the world and beliefs being destroyed. Building colonies through slave labour in the americas: transportaion of slaves from africa into the americas, new world atlanic world. New world privileges european perspecive; covers over perspecive of people already living in americas, etc. Atlanic world refers to muli-direcionality never linear, always moving backward and forward. Geographic limitaion doesn"t refer to paciic or indian oceans: importance of study of slave ships (tweed) Diferent vantage point of what actually creates human cruelty. Slave ships are modern factories that produce race. soring, assigning, and making hierarchy to raionalize absurdity.
