Throughout history, many Africans expressed and physically showed the hardships they faced through slave trade. They endured labor-intensive work in plantations and also worked for other people. These struggles have been documented through pictures and works of literature that attempt to make it to the surface of the untold truth. After countless of suffering…
The Hope From Within
Philis Wheatly a known slave and poet had wrote poetry in which gave us knowledge into her own world. And images among the web have shown us burial grounds for the slaves in which despite the circumstances seemed like a bit of peace for them. In Philis Wheatly poems she shows us a side…
Whipping: A Physical Punishment of Slaves
The archive at the University of Virginia for the Humanities, “Slavery Images”, displays an illustration entitled, “The Public Whipping of a Slave in Brazil in the 1830’s”. The picture shows the most striking feature of a male slave, stripped of his clothing, and tied to a post or stake in the middle of the town’s…
Whippings of the Slave Trade
The un-justice of slavery began in the early 1400s and was abolished around 1865. What would be the reason for overseers to dehumanize people of color? The burden of being a slave caused mistreatment and ridiculed punishments. African-Americans faced oppression based on the color of their skin. In…
Exploitation and Its Victims
It doesn’t matter how remarkable a slave was, that person was still just property. The poet Phillis Wheatley was no exception. As a slave who was taught to read and write by her Mistress, it’s easy to forget that to the slave master, she was still just another slave to be exploited. An advertisement for…
Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglas: The Religious and Political Slaves
English Literature II ENG 302 Prof. Gabrielle Kappes Pamela Vargas March 26, 2018 The transatlantic slave trade contributed to the development of the United States, and ultimately, to its political shifts from the 17th century to the 19th century. Notable activists such as Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglas were victims of the transatlantic…
A Sisyphean Undertaking: Slave Resistance and Revolts
Stephanie Saffore ENG 302- Prof. Kappes 3/26/18 A Sisyphean Undertaking: Slave Resistance and Revolts Aphra Behn’s novella Oroonoko, tells the tale of a young prince that, like so many before him, was tricked into slavery. Despite this manipulation however, Oroonoko takes an extremely passive role in his capture, as well as most…
Exploiting Slaves
Richard Desjardin Jr. ENG 302 EXPLOITING SLAVES The very idea and nature of the transatlantic slave trade was extremely flawed and inhumane on so many levels. Going through the New York Public Library’s Digital Archive I stumbled upon an image of a female slave with bells attached to her that hung over her…
The Reality of Slavery
Terrell Rozing Professor Kappes English 302 March 26, 2018 The Reality of Slavery Oroonoko, written by Aphra Behn in 1688 depicts a romanticized story between Oroonoko and his lover Imoinda. Through their journey, we are able to see the persona of Oroonoko to be placed upon a pedestal, only to be struck by unfortunate circumstances…
“Fight or Flight”
Jeremy Forbes 2/28/2018 ENG302 Part II Fight or Flight The transatlantic Slave Trade birthed this nation, but it left a nation of colored people confused and damaged. These repercussions on the people of Africa can be seen by the lack of identity in black culture, the path to equality that is covered in bloodshed, the…
