Ivory Coast Slavery

Olaudah Equiano was only eleven years old when he and his siter were kidnapped from their

It was in the eighteenth century human beings were counted as goods of exchange due to their skin color or place of birth. Innocent Western and Central Africans were kidnapped from their native land who though it was safe haven. They were hunted as wild animals and ferried by unsafe ships to a new world which they never heard of or dreamed to be. The kidnaped became slaves and hold cruelly in shackles while their female counterparts were raped and violated. One of the survivors of those victims of slavery was Olaudah Equiano. Equiano was avail to publish his autobiography in his book title, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African”. According to his autobiography and his own word, his sister

Slavery was very common around the 1700’s. Slavery is when others (masters) people into their fields to work, even if they didn't want to. From infants to adults, masters took whoever they felt like keeping under their control. A master is the person who owns the slaves, they are the ones to decide how the slaves will be treated and what they will be doing on the plantations. To be a slave means that you don’t have any freedom what so ever, and you are controlled by another person.

As mentioned earlier, 70% of cocoa beans come from plantations in western African countries. However, most workers on these plantations are child slaves who are abused, not paid, and confined to grueling labor for years and years. Many of these unfortunate children aren’t over the age of sixteen yet they are forced to work from dusk till dawn. To add to this, there are a great amount of dangerous throughout the plantation. These include exposure to toxic, agricultural chemicals on the cocoa beans, being forced to use dangerous machetes in work, and being crushed by hundred pound bags of packed cocoa beans. The conditions that they live in are no better either. From sleeping on planks of wood as a bed to being fed the bare minimum of the cheapest food, most of these children don’t even receive basic education. One of the worst parts of this tragedy is that chocolate companies know what is happening yet they continue to receive cocoa from child slaves, and then they sell the public this deplorable

Catholic Social Teaching: How does the 40 Hour Famine represent the principles of Catholic Social Teaching?

History is taught in every college, because it is a required class. In those classes, every professor uses a book to help teach the students content; however, the students do not remember each fact they read, but the images shown throughout the book. Images are very important to history, they give students mental images that give them a chance to pretend like they were there and witnessed it first hand. Some images can be gruesome and heart-tugging, though they show the truth of what has happened in the past. In Chapter 18, forced labor throughout Africa is discussed. The picture below, Figure One, is of two young boys, perhaps no older than twelve; and each of them have severed hands.

African slavery provided cheap labor for the proprietors, however most of the slaves suffered terrible conditions from the moment they were captured until their life ended. They lived and worked in horrible conditions. Many families’ lives were destroyed when they came to the Americas, and they had an enormous lack of rights and freedoms, such as a simple education.

The title of the document is The Manner in which the Slaves are procured, An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa.

In the chapter entitled “The Public Presidency Communications and Media,” Matthew Eshbaugh-soha argues that media coverage is extremely essential for presidential governance. However, it is challenging to control and adjust to serve presidential purposes, for it is driven by different motives. A president’s goal is to increase coverage surrounding him to obtain support for his policies, while the media wants to sell the best headlines to increase their profit. Eshbaugh-soha argues that even though presidents have developed different tactics to maximize their media coverage, they often face failures in doing so. In this chapter, Eshbaugh-soha analyzes the different mythologies, through which presidents attempt to increase their

The Catholic church and the economy is not a phrase one hears regularly. However, I am not advocating that the church join the market, rather it should address the fundamental issues in the global market, especially dealing with capitalism and imperialism. Much like in ecology, we have been aware of the widening gap between the developing world and the post-industrial world for quite a few years and yet it just continued to widen. The super wealthy are controlling and allocating the money in the world and often this leads to suffering for those who are living in a developing nation. Even when large companies provide employment for workers in developing countries, the work is often dangerous and has long hours, not to mention little pay. As a universal body, the Catholic church has the ability to speak out against this and deliberate what is closest to God’s calling for each of the nation. It would not only benefit the people in poverty, but nations which are on the brink of economic collapse across the world, including Europe. By making the church’s moral teachings on this subject clear, the church can encourage its community across the world to try and make a positive change. While this is happening on a large scale between countries, this wealth gap is also seen within a country’s economy as well. Not only will becoming more balance benefit the world, but it will support the many Catholics in the

In the last 50 years much has been done to combat the entirely false and negative views about the history of Africa and Africans, which were developed in Europe in order to justify the Transatlantic Slave Trade and European colonial rule in Africa that followed it. In the eighteenth century such racist views were summed up by the words of the Scottish philosopher David Hume, who said, ‘I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilised nation of that complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or in speculation. No ingenious manufacture among them, no arts, no sciences”. In the nineteenth

“During the 1960s, some black leaders revived the idea of reparations. In 1969, James Forman proclaimed a "Black Manifesto." It demanded $500 million from American churches and synagogues for their role in perpetuating slavery before the Civil War.”(William Reed) This argument has been demonstrated: a compensation should be provided to the descendants of enslaved people in America, because their ancestors had performed the tedious labor over past few hundred years ago. However, it is clearly that the idea remains highly controversial. Looking at the historical evidence that have been presented, now we can analysis the historical events that were actually contributed to the slavery of African contingents. We need to analysis few questions in order to get better understanding of this topic itself. First,

Women’s health, specifically abortion, is a pressing health care issue in the nation, as well as globally. I envision my future career as an Obstetrician and Gynecologist (OB/GYN) to be influential in the process of choosing whether or not to have an abortion. Many females making this difficult decision are uninformed and afraid. My part in this process would be to inform the mother-to-be of all her options, encourage, and support her as she makes her decision. As an OB/GYN, I will use my empathy and professionalism to answer difficult questions and put my personal beliefs aside to ensure the welfare of the mother and the child. I want to be able to provide a confidential and comfortable environment for my patient to discuss private and sensitive

Halloween is an international holiday that is celebrated every year on the 31st of October. Halloween is a holiday that consists of a history of traditions that have been evolved to fit more modern times. Halloween is considered an ancient tradition that was once religious. Halloween has a rich history and has influenced thousands of cultures throughout the 2,000 years that the holiday has been in practice.

Slavery in traditional African culture was a part of the West African "hierarchical structure since ancient times". In addition, they had war captives as slaves. Master who lived in the Islamic region were accountable for their slave’s religious well being. In non-Islamic region the children of slaves could obtain legal protection. In addition, slaves that severed in the royal courts often had power over free people and could also obtain property. Furthermore, slavery in West Africa was less oppressive than, in America. Most often slavery in in West African "societies function as a means of assimilation". However, in the sixteenth century gold mines, sliver mines, and sugar plantation produced a huge demand for labor. Traders imported slaves