ipl-logo

Egalite For All Analysis

498 Words2 Pages

Watching the documentary “Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution” taught me a lot of brand new information and was very interesting. The first part that stood out a lot to me began around 12:50 and it where the narrator says, “they were born free but not equal”, although there were Black people that were not enslaved they still had no rights. They still had to make sure to physically show that they respected white people by standing up in their presence and referred to them in honorifics. The most interesting part was that free Black people were born free, but had no citizenship. They had to send a petition to the government of France asking to receive citizenship and as a result of this, mixed race people began to get attacked and murdered by white people. This stood out as even when simply asking for citizenship and basic rights, free Black and mixed race people still got attacked. The next scene that stood out was at around 18:46 where the documentary talked about slaves rebelling against their masters. The slaves poisoned, stabbed, and ultimately killed their masters. This scene stood out since I found it incredible how the amount of slaves rebelling grew from one thousand to twenty thousand in order to retaliate with the same amount of violence that the masters used on them. This also stood out to me …show more content…

The scene talks about how the Natives were inhumanely attacked by the Spaniards who were being welcomed as guests. The Spaniards took advantage of their hospitality and went to the Aztecs annual celebration, honoring their god Huitzilopochtli, and attacked them. The scene stood out due to the vulgar descriptions of how the Aztecs were attacked, which included their stomachs being slashed open and their entrails spilling out. Some Aztecs believed the Spaniards to be white gods and were not expected to be attacked in this brutal

Show More
Related
964 Words | 4 Pages

Whilst white citizens may believe in the themes of the country, it may not apply to minorities. After a sequence of credits the documentary begins to chronologically show the events between 1967 and 1975. The archival footage emphasizes speech rather than

Read More
472 Words | 2 Pages

As seen in the film, the Spanish were implementing the idea of “cultural orphanage.” In order to fully dominate the Natives, it was necessary for the Spanish to destroy their entire identity and what they valued to replace it with their own. Having no family, home, language, history, or religion made it easier to subjugate the Natives (Carrasco, 167). This physical and spiritual domination is seen through the experiences of the Native scribe named Topiltzin. His family is killed, his history is destroyed, and he has to endure the trauma of trying to maintain his Aztec identity while resisting the forces of Christianity.

Read More
436 Words | 2 Pages

One person said that they should be exempted from military duties. An interesting quote from the documentary was “the only place the black man should fight is where he is oppressed; I am not oppressed in Japan, in Vietnam, in Pakistan”. In other words, what did the Vietnamese did to me that I go over there and fight? Also, in the Long Binh Jail in Vietnam, they mentioned that like 90% were African Americans in there, just like the prisons here in the United States. They were frustrated in the jail, so group of African American inmates rioted trying to escape, after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The worst case in the documentary was the My Lai Massacre, where U.S. troops went in and destroyed the village, killing many women and children.

Read More
554 Words | 3 Pages

A very moving scene that demonstrates the injustice of the free black men unfair treatment was when Trip goes missing and is caught. Colonel Shaw orders him flogged in front of the troops.

Read More
991 Words | 4 Pages

Staring with Assata Shakur, who is a very smart and courageous woman. Being a part of Black Panther Party group and standing for equal rights retaliating with the same force the oppressive system gave. Assata unknowingly joined the Black Liberation Group in hopes of change for black Americans, but instead received tremendous amount of hate from the white society. Being targeted by the FBI and a secret counterintelligence agency called CoIntelPro. After the infamous 1973 shootout in New Jersey where she was shot twice and captured, Assata tried reasoning with the officials but they wouldn’t budge.

Read More
1711 Words | 7 Pages

The documentary provides four implications as to how and why this injustice occurred: 1) racial and socioeconomic biases against the

Read More
1003 Words | 5 Pages

Tombstone reflection The movie Tombstone reflect the society of the old west, in term of “wild west” what makes it so wild? lawless was the most obvious characteristic during that period of time. Someplace in the frontier western period were just territory, not fully developed into a state or country yet, lacking of state government, state laws, that’s why people use guns to stand for them self, defend for them self, to maintain certain properties and authorities with their guns, gun can use for variety reason , and sometimes gun might cause some bloody and violent conflict among people. During that “wild brutal’’ period of time, gun seems like a necessity for people to protect himself as a personal belonging.

Read More
573 Words | 3 Pages

The author gives insight on how many ways the Spaniards used their power to assist in the downfall of the Aztecs. The reason why the Spaniards became victorious, was because the Spaniards were looked upon as if they were gods because of their outer appearance. The Aztecs broke bread and welcomed the Spaniards with gifts and parties. The Aztecs triggered their relationship with the Spaniards by holding a ritual for the arrival of the god which included a human sacrifice. The Spaniards didn’t agree with the rituals and began to despise the Aztecs.

Read More
823 Words | 4 Pages

The Spanish, despite giving the Aztecs permission to hold the celebration, were “seized with an urge to kill the celebrants” and ensued with the trapping and massacre of the Aztec celebrants (The Broken Spears, The Spaniards Attack the Celebrants). The Spanish hunted down and slaughtered every celebrant, even though the Aztecs were not a threat to them and posed no harm. The diametric responses to the inequality between the Aztecs and the Spaniards is clear: the Aztecs are submissive and respectful towards the Spanish, and often resort to hiding out of fear. In contrast, the Spanish are needlessly aggressive, avaricious, and intimidating; they demand gold, destroy the meaningful treasures of the Aztecs, seize Motecuhzoma’s treasures, and violently

Read More
512 Words | 3 Pages

One Survivor Remembers Discussion Questions 1. The scenes and images that were most powerful to me were the first scene and the last scenes. The first scene showed the aftermath of the death marches, and all of the bodies of the women who lost their lives. The last scenes featured the women after the Nazis abandoned them and them on the march itself. These scenes were very powerful because they made me think about the horrors those women had to endure.

Read More
1180 Words | 5 Pages

Towards the beginning of this movie, many blacks were looking at the white men with hatred for raping and nearly killing a ten year old black girl. The men transformed the innocent little girl’s life forever. The men were instantly

Read More
899 Words | 4 Pages

The play begins at Honest Sancho's Used Mexican Lot, which is a play on a used car lot. It shows how Mexicans are seen as objects and shows how Mexican people

Read More
476 Words | 2 Pages

Growing up, in school all we really learned about the struggles of black people were slavery and segregation. It was glossed over and glammed up to seem as if once the Civil Rights movement was over African Americans received equal rights and then everyone held hands and sang Kumbaya. This is far from the truth, since the end of slavery in 1865 up until now in 2017, African Americans still deal with intolerance and do not receive equal rights. Carol Anderson has written a book that is extremely powerful, yet infuriating and depressing. Anderson does a fantastic job of showcasing the systematic oppression of African Americans throughout history.

Read More
1147 Words | 5 Pages

Have you ever imagined what it was like for an African American person back in the 1800’s when they were considered “free”? Back then, black people were used as slaves, and they didn’t gain their absolute freedom from slavery until 1865 when it was completely abolished. They gave Africans certain rights that weren’t completely fair. It really makes you question whether black people were really free in that time. When all blacks were released from slavery, what rights did they really have?

Read More
1268 Words | 6 Pages

12 Years A Slave Do you care about human rights? Do you feel like injustice, racism and oppression has been and still is a huge issue in America? And most importantly, do you care about the cruel and brutal history of slavery and the consequences it has had for the future generations of African Americans? If the answer is yes to all of the above, then it is an absolute necessity for you to watch the movie 12 Years A Slave!

Read More

More about Egalite For All Analysis

Related Topics

Open Document