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Survival-final paper Africa has gone through horrible times in history. One can only imagine the horror of living under the colonizing Europe. During the era of colonization human’s life were being traded like they were products. The colonizers took the most valuable item humanity can have freedom. During this period, European interests in Africa primarily focused on the establishment of trading posts there, particularly for the trade. This condition was part of the life of Manuel Jean Joseph from Masters Of The Dew by Jacques Roumain and Tituba in I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde also in the work of Camara Layer in The Dark Child During this period, European interests in Africa primarily focused on the establishment of trading posts there, …show more content…

Each book uses the theme of survival and gives their character their own to survive. The main themes of the novel I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem, the violence of slavery and the oppression of women by men, and this can be seen in the first chapters of the navel when she says “Abena, my mother was raped by an English sailor on the deck of Christ the King one day in the year 16” Tituba’s mother was just another girl who want it a better future for herself and she decided to risk it all by going inside this boat but life took a wrong turn and she end up getting rape and pregnant with Tituba by a sailor, not only did she go through this horrible experience but she made it clear that she hated Tituba because she would remind her of the day she was rape by the sailor. In the end she took this risk for the hunt of a better life but that’s not how it turn out she couldn’t stop it because she need it to be in the ship and if she were to fight against she could had been kill but she let it happen to survive and keep in search of the better life. In I, Tituba the character of Tituba is a woman who has learned to enjoy everything life gives you, she lived

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On February 29, 1692, issued warrants were released for Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba for witchcraft. Good, a beggar, and Osborne, a poor elderly woman, both claimed they were innocent and Tituba, a Caribbean slave from Elizabeth Parris’ family, confessed to being a witch. Tituba not only confessed to doing witchcraft but that there was a whole coven of witches in Salem, making her not the only one. Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams were experiencing tremors, spasms, fits and crying while throwing things. All of this made everyone suspicious about witchcraft.

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The witch hunt of Salem 1692 was perpetuated by Tituba. She is the sole reason the trial was spiraled into such an epidemic hysteria. Based on extremely, creatively, woven tales Tituba expressed to the court, in extreme detail the evidence needed to create the trials. To save her own life, and resist against her oppressive master, Tituba spun the town of Salem upside down with a single confession.

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The Salem Witch Trials started in February 1692. It all began with a young African American slave who was owned by Samuel Parris. Samuel Parris called a doctor on this day for his daughter and niece because they were having weird out buts and not acting like themselves. The doctor claimed that his kids where under the exemption of witchcraft. The girls later on accused Tituba and two other woman.

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I. Slavery and the Empire A. Atlantic Trade 1. “Triangular Trade” a. Africa, Europe, America 2. Caused the racism 3. Central to world economy B. Africa and the Slave Trade 1. African elites sold their people to slavery.

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First, the Salem Witch Trials happened in 1692. In Salem Village, the minister’s daughter, Betty Parris, and his niece, Abigail Williams, severely got sick. The girls felt pinching sensations, knife like pains, and the feeling of being choked. Everybody thought it was witchcraft, the girls accused three women, the first was Tituba. Tituba told the girls stories, and showed them magic tricks.

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The Salem Community Goes wrong The Salem Witch trials started in 1688. However witch trials started many years before. There were forty- to fifty-thousand people killed because of witchcraft, in a matter of 300 years. The main punishment for witchcraft was being hanged, others died in jail, or rocks were stacked on them till their chests collapsed. The Salem community consisted of five hundred individuals who were very pious.

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that mentioned her after this point in time. the Reverend Paris said he would pay the fee to get Tituba out of prison. Colony rules stated that even when someone is found innocent, you still must pay for the resources used while you were in jail. The expenses included an imprisonment fee and the cost to feed them as well. They could not be released unless these fees were paid for.

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Some chain of events that happened was that the people of Salem started to panic about the news of them being witches. They began to fear because back then they did believe that witches were real. Tituba had mentioned that there were other witches around the neighborhood. So many people were being blamed that they were witches and they had to go on trial. Some people were becoming scared because they had no proof that those people they accused were witches.

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Marielle Apronti Prof. Oscar Williams AAFS 311 4 March 2018 The Trans-Atlantic slave trade was the most important factor when considering the early development of European capitalism. The arrival of the Portuguese to the West African Coast and their establishment of trading and slave ports throughout the continent set in stone a trend of exploitation of Africa 's labor and human resources. Europeans greatly benefited from the Trans-Atlantic trade, as it allowed them to aggregate raw materials such as sugar and cotton to manufacture products that funded the Industrial Revolution. In the book “Capitalism and Slavery” by Eric Williams he addresses the origin of “Negro” history, the economic and political impact of slavery in Great Britain, the role of the American Revolution and the decline of slavery in Great Britain.

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Some people lived in larger, centralized states, while other lived in simple village communities. Islam was one of the most widespread religions in Africa before missionaries came to convert them to Christianity. This might have been a more positive influence if the Europeans hadn’t viewed the Africans as a people in need of refinement and guidance instead of understanding and respecting their culture. However, one benefit of Europe’s growing control of Africa was that the transatlantic slavery slowly came to an end, but in East Africa, slavery continued to run rampant. Although the end of much of the slavery did rid Africa of much exploitation, it continued in other ways including the harvest of copper, ivory, and other resources taken from the Congo, civilians forced into hard labor for little compensation, and little to no control of the government was given to native

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In the late nineteenth and twentieth century, Europe had carved up Africa into vast colonies, thus resulting in imperialism. And even though colonial powers flourished from the resources the colonies brought, the native Africans experienced racism and brutality from the white settlers. The imperialist reign held over Africa may have been positive for colonial powers, but Africans were faced with such terrible adversity, it seems that the situation is difficiult to look at from not a negative viewpoint. As Europe cut up the continent of Africa with little regard to its inhabitants, many varying colonies were set up. These colonies were often, more time than not, controlled by white settlers.

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So Europe invaded Africa, took possession of Africa, and divided Africa into colonies of Europe. The period of invasion, lasting some twenty years, was more or less completed by 1900. There followed a longer period, between sixty and ninety years, of direct European rule, called colonial rule. This was a time of profound upheaval for all of Africa’s peoples. It brought irreversible changes” (4).

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In History of Africa, Shillington focuses on many aspects of African culture and factors that made Africa to be the continent that it is today. Chapter 5 primarily focuses on the Northern region of Africa and how empires took over and spread their ideology technology, and culture all through out the region. Even today some remnants of the Roman and Greek empire live on to this day (Shillington, 69.) Despite many people getting the impression that Northern Africa is only influenced by Arabic and Islam, these empires and their conquests are best understood through topics like intricate trading routes, farming, and the spread of religion. Shillington provides an in depth analysis of how many of these conquests affected Northern Africa centuries ago and today.

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The undeniable truth is that colonization did harm Africa through its unfair and violent practices. (Houngnikpo, 2006) Colonialism is responsible for the stagnation of the economy and technology in Africa. It is necessary to acknowledge that African economy has financed the so –called European capital. The capital is a result of robbery of land and labor of Africans. Colonialism transformed pre-colonial African structures and made them into structures that satisfy the economic needs of the imperialist world.

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Not all African societies were equally affected, but countries such as Angola and Senegal suffered heavily (SAHO, s.a.). The most important consequences of the Atlantic slave trade were demographic, economic, and political (SAHO, s.a.). There can be no doubt that the Atlantic slave trade greatly retarded African demographic development, a fact that was to have lasting consequences for the history of the continent (SAHO, s.a.). At best, African populations remained stagnant (SAHO, s.a.). The export of the most economically active men and women led to the disintegration of entire societies (SAHO, s.a.).

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