Class notes 11/6/17

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Visual audio slide show- 4 to 5-minute project. Be super precise and concise. Find the most important things for the audience to know about colonial Latin American history.

Try to develop a full script for feedback (due Friday). Include images and script, develop argument, primary source analysis, histography

As you find good images make sure you’re keeping track by citing them

For audio recording- can use imovie, recording area in the library, audacity online, flipgram ? on phones (can use freesound for different sound effects). Quality of sound of your recording is important

Can use any format if you can export it and share it on YouTube

Writing center is awesome for these types of projects

Try not to wear windbreaker type jackets or noisy clothes when recording

Plantation slavery

• More Africans coming over the Atlantic than Europeans before 1800s. Large volume of slaves
• Intensification of the process of slavery of economic purposes
• Transportation, provisions, purchase price were main costs of slavery
• Slavery existed in Africa before contact. However, weren’t dehumanized and had better living conditions- more paths to freedom
• Economic demands caused high volumes of slaves exported from Africa to the new world
• Transatlantic slavery database has a ton of information. Shows Atlantic slave trade overtime
• investors in the enterprise of slavery provides financial records
• Some people involved who realize the true horrors will turn anti-slavery and give firsthand accounts
• It’s hard to do genealogy of slaves because the records aren’t very good
• Its difficult to tell ethnic and language groups because slaves are often gathered up by warring tribes all over Africa and sold out of common ports out of western-central Africa
• Hati shows the instability of slave labor and the violence that comes from it
• Brazil and Caribbean largest importers of slaves mainly due to sugar plantations
• sugar transforms slavery- larger scale, more profits
• sugar is intense crop large mortality rate, industrial accidents, malnutrition, disease
• to have colonial rule of a small minority over a large majority involves massive coercion. very ridged hierarchical society
• benevolent coercion. People are made promises that if you behave you and your family will get benefits
• historical agency- ability to keep their identities, culture
• a lot of apologies for slavery arguing that people were better off under slavery
• long term domestic partnerships where women remain enslaved but their children may become free. Causes wealthy mixed population where in some cases the children own their mothers
• some women purchase their freedom through prostitution
• legal status, race, gender form a complex racial hierarchy