HI 211- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 22 pages long!)
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10. 24 million africans in the atlantic slave trade. West central africa (republic of congo, angola) 3-4 million died in the middle passage. Forced labor of gangs of enslaved people. Cultivation of a cash crop that commands high prices in distant lands. 1712 slave revolt: indians and slaves retaliated against their masters. 1741 slave revolt: after a series of fires destroy merchant warehouses, slaves rounded up and killed. Result: 30 blacks and 4 whites are executed. Generational revolts--multiple generations revolting against the same thing. Revolting without fear because their lives are no better enslaved than dead. Introduction racism and other social constructs will never change. Has a career as a white woman--is part african. Racial problems are developing because denying ethnic diversity. Popular american culture = appropriation of african american art forms. American conservatism has never led to greater racial equality. American liberalism had often stifled african-american civil rights. African americans are people and african american history is human history.
