The African Queen

systems of forced labor and tribute of the empires they overthrew later as the spaniards became established in the new world labor was needed to work in the mines, fields and houses of the spanish. The conquistadors could not enslave the natives as Queen Isabella decred that as subjects of the crown on Indian should be enslaved. But without forced labor the spanish colonies would collapse. A compromise was reached by Nicolas de Ovando, governor of Hispaniola which provided the needed labor to

before they started to do the slave trade. It's started when Prince Henry the navigator ruler who sent an expedition to Africa in order to know more about the continent in the year of 1441. In the year of 1444, they sent the cargo which consist of 235 Africans slaves and brought into Lagos. Besides that, they used those slaves to work on their sugar plantations in Madeira. By following year 1460 the Portuguese decided to built the first slave fort on the coast of Ghana West coast of Africa and The Elimina

strong slave babies. Marriage among slaves was outlawed but illicit sex wasn’t. Slavery and oppression left the blacks in New Orleans with a heavy burden of sexual immorality.20 In this grime of wealth, slaves, snake gods, Voodoo and sex stood many African nations with their traditional religions and spirit possession. Here sexual laced ceremonies were practiced. Furthermore this influx of sexually permissive religion had its affect. “…..the barbaric rites of Voudooism originated with the Congo and

materials to the ways they try to lose weight. She made them feel safe and secure. Oprah wasn’t and isn’t a sexual being really. When you think of Oprah you don’t think of sex, she is somewhat asexual like a mammy. Oprah never took public stands on African American problems. When Oprah endorsed Obama her ratings dipped and sales of O magazine dipped. The Jezebel stereotype is a woman who wants sex all the time. She uses sex to get what she wants. What she wants varies from money to destroying someone

education. These territories had very little to begin with because of slavery, so massive debts were accumulated. For instance, Senegal, as mentioned earlier, was colonized by France in the nineteenth century. It, along with other colonies along the west African coast, were exploited for their resources and were left to pay for the damages after not only World Wars I and II, but also from in-country fighting as well. Siji Jabbar, author of “How France loots its former colonies” says, “France organized its

colonization of Spain over the New World. As it became known as the Columbian Exchange in honor of Columbus, it was the exchange of different plants, animals, microbes, and people across the Atlantic Ocean to the New and Old Worlds. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella sent out many explorers to the New World which caused both positive and negative effects. The exchange of goods with the Indians in the New World was not just to trade products but to also transplant them from Africa and Europe to the Americas

that all blacks were required to give up their seat for a person who was white. This practically made all African Americans lesser than a human being. In 1955, An African American woman named Rosa Parks was arrested. Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat for a white person. Due to this incident, the African American community protested against the government by asking every African American to not use the buses. “We are...asking every Negro to stay off the buses Monday in protest of the

The Iberian Peninsula consisted of Portugal, the combined kingdoms of Aragon and Castile resulting from the marriage of King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella in 1479, and a small, southern region controlled by the Muslim Moors in Granada which were slowly getting pushed back by the Christian armies fueled by the Reconquista or “Reconquest” movement of Spain. The Reconquista was a violent conflict

religious backgrounds, some of which included: The Quakers, Lutherans, Congregationalists, Anglicans, Catholics, and Jews (Original13colonies, “n.d.). Virginia was primarily a colony that made up the mid-Atlantic region. It was named after Queen Elizabeth the virgin queen. This colony had no gold or silver, and land was plagued with disease, starvation and death for early

I used to blame the black community for their own victimization. The negative depictions of black culture for being welfare queen, lazy people and uneducated are some of the stereotypes that I knew long before I moved to the United States. When I also came, I noticed how real these depictions were. I got constantly reminded when I switched on the TV about how many African –Americans were under arrest. From there, I concluded my so called ‘final analyses’ about the black community. Even though I