Would you like to learn a little about Africa? Diaspora facts? Free ez online curriculums inside

[Sinnerman]

http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/ I use this site for pics/info on the early black diaspora in europe. ran by a native american woman too I think. either that or a paag


Keep in mind that the moorish caliphate still held close ties to it's former strongolds in europe.(Spain especially). Hell some of those that fought off moorish influence were black themselves. When the Moors conquered Songhai, they used Spanish mercenaries, Euro weapons. The first duke of florence was also a mulatto(Alessandro Il moro). Queen Elizabeth even had to write an order begging for the expulsion of the blackamoors in britain

Africans also became a sort of status symbols to own, so you start to see more wealthy europeans buying them and dressing them up royally and shyt and putting them in their court

http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/index.php

you can click either teacher or student. at the top, they have map of curriculums, and then, cirriculum activities and so on and so on.

they provide links for further studying and research (for those that want to go more in depth.)

This isn't the most complex or in depth, it's not college level, but some may not even know the basics and could use a great outline, direction and cirriculums to learn a few things and spark some interest. Even I'm currently going through it, refreshing my memory. I've got another tab open for the links in case something interests me and I want to go more in depth, maybe pull up encyclopedias, or wiki of names that might draw my attention.

For example I'm currently studying what happened to the first wave of africans brought to Portugal BEFORE the slave trade, but AFTER Vasco da Gama discovered west africa, a good 150 years to be exact. During a time when west africans were living in Portugal and were embedded into their society, unheard of during that time, people from France to Holland were visiting Portugal only to be shocked at Portugal having become a center for west africans and the new hybrids (1 out of 10), 10% of their population black/mulatto , neither of whom were moors. It was much like AAs in america today. After 150 years, they disappeared, bred out or left to new colonies to seek native wives, Portugal now occupying India and Brazil, the short history of the Black Portuguese lost to history.


Eat brothas, eat, learn about your history, learn about your people.

I actually heard it was closer to 20 percent? maybe that was just Lisbon. and yeah a lot of them came from modern day Congo. they established very early ties with each other. You made a point in a different post about dutch early intermarriage with blacks, I read a stat that close to 50% of black people(or it may have been just bm not sure) were marrying dutch girls. props for the article btw

Some say that the British exaggerated claims as to have an excuse to invade. Considering Britain weren't the friendliest and had the biggest wars in the region, it's not far fetched. They also claimed the Spaniards were worse, but present day we have Mexicans. Ask an african american, and he'll hands down call the english speakers worse, heck, slaves were fleeing to Mexico, esp when Vincent Guerrero was president (black man).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Coloureds

Brazils slave trading was fukking insane. How a small country like Portugal could even pull that off is just....and them fools are currently broke, it was all for nothing.

Yeah that's definitely a british tactic it seems they did some shyt like that with regards to the Benin Empire.

Those maroon(quilombo) settlements in Brazil were interesting as shyt too. here's an article bout em. http://www.culturalsurvival.org/our...cle/quilombo-brazilian-maroons-during-slavery

The ironic thing is that now Angola is lending Portugal money hilarious. them fools rich as fukk doe

 

[Tommy Knocks]

http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/ I use this site for pics/info on the early black diaspora in europe. ran by a native american woman too I think. either that or a paag


Keep in mind that the moorish caliphate still held close ties to it's former strongolds in europe.(Spain especially). Hell some of those that fought off moorish influence were black themselves. When the Moors conquered Songhai, they used Spanish mercenaries, Euro weapons. The first duke of florence was also a mulatto(Alessandro Il moro). Queen Elizabeth even had to write an order begging for the expulsion of the blackamoors in britain

Africans also became a sort of status symbols to own, so you start to see more wealthy europeans buying them and dressing them up royally and shyt and putting them in their court



I actually heard it was closer to 20 percent? maybe that was just Lisbon. and yeah a lot of them came from modern day Congo. they established very early ties with each other. You made a point in a different post about dutch early intermarriage with blacks, I read a stat that close to 50% of black people(or it may have been just bm not sure) were marrying dutch girls. props for the article btw




Yeah that's definitely a british tactic it seems they did some shyt like that with regards to the Benin Empire.

Those maroon(quilombo) settlements in Brazil were interesting as shyt too. here's an article bout em. http://www.culturalsurvival.org/our...cle/quilombo-brazilian-maroons-during-slavery

The ironic thing is that now Angola is lending Portugal money hilarious. them fools rich as fukk doe

Peep this.

Anne Marie Jordan, for instance, has a fine chapter on slaves in the Lisbon court of Queen Catherine of Austria, where mainly women and children of different ethnic origins were used as musicians, cooks, pastry chefs, housekeepers, pages, or servants in royal apothecaries, kitchens, gardens, and stables. Jordan points out how white Moorish slaves were favoured because of skin colour prejudices, but black slaves were considered trustworthy for religious reasons. The black slaves were a sign of social prestige and distinction in a cosmopolitan court: this feature explains why Catherine spent so much money clothing and offering them as exotic gifts to her favourite ladies and relatives in other European courts. The representation of small black slaves in the portraits of Iberian princesses, as in the painting of Juana de Austria by Cristóvão de Morais, reinforced their image as symbols of empire building.

Jorge Fonseca presents the results of his research on sixteenth-century Southern Portugal, where he estimates a total of six to seven per cent of blacks in the population, mainly in urban areas, in contrast with the Northern region, where blacks were scarce. His analysis of the perceptions of black people by Nicholas Cleynaerts, a Flemish scholar who taught in Louvain, Paris, and Salamanca, spending several years in Portugal as tutor of infant Henry (the future cardinal and General Inquisitor), is less convincing. The scholar is presented as an ‘exotic visitor’, which is misplaced, since he belonged to the international Renaissance elite who circulated between different European countries. Cleynaerts bought young slaves and taught them as assistants. His observation that they were like ‘monkeys’ (meaning capable of imitating but not of creating) is considered by Fonseca as a sign of the contrast between two societies, the Flemish and the Portuguese, the first unaware of black people, the second used to them. It is disputable that Cleynaerts’ classification of the young slaves as ‘monkeys’ was his own, and not influenced by the Portuguese, but the implicit assumption that the Portuguese were less ‘racist’ than the Flemish is questionable.

Didier Lahon proposes an interesting analysis of the mixed confraternity of Nossa Senhora do Rosário in Lisbon, which split into two branches of white and black members. The conflict that existed between them for more than one century, and the final victory of the white branch in 1646, is interpreted as a shift from a relatively tolerant society, open to manumission (one of the privileges of the confraternity) and to intervention against bad treatment of slaves, to a more rigid and intolerant society in the seventeenth century. The implementation of the obligatory baptism of slaves throughout the second half of the sixteenth century is also reconstituted in detail. The analysis of the impact of the notion of blood purity in Portugal is much less convincing, with a deficient chronology and huge gaps, while comprehensive studies are ignored. The idea that the Iberian Peninsula dealt with the presence of Moors, Jews, and New Christians as an anomaly from 1350 onwards is simply wrong, as Maria José Ferro Tavares and Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros have demonstrated.

Thomas Earle focuses his study on the work of Afonso Álvares, a mulatto poet and playwright, cautiously alerting the reader to the lack of evidence to prove that they were one and the same person. Álvares is one of the few mixed-race intellectuals in Europe in the sixteenth century. He wrote satirical poems and four plays based on saints’ lives, commissioned by the Augustinian canons of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon. Earle discusses the quality of the plays and convincingly refuses the historical devaluation of the writer, who has been seen as a minor disciple of Gil Vicente. A particularly interesting section concerns the polemic in satirical redondilhas between Afonso Álvares and another poet, António Ribeiro Chiado. Álvares accused Chiado of low birth and immorality. Chiado insulted Álvares in racist terms, accusing him of being a mulatto, son of a black woman, a slave freed by marriage. Álvares underlined the nobility of his father—whose identity was never disclosed; it might have been Dom Afonso de Portugal, bishop of Évora, in whose household Álvares was educated. In his plays, Álvares reflects the dominant anti-Semitic mood. There is sufficient material here for a deeper reflection on the racial prejudices of the Portuguese Renaissance society and on the conflicting mechanisms of social promotion among subaltern groups.

more here:

http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/619

 

[Tommy Knocks]

http://afroeurope.blogspot.com/2010/08/history-of-black-people-in-europe.html

 

[Primetime21]

I've been more interested in south american and european as of late. I know a lot about ours, but I never really focused on what happened to all the other people, like those that got shipped to colombia, argentina (they were sent into war and massacred into extinction), Peru, Mexico, Suriname, Spain, or Brazil. I used to think that America's blacks were the most bad ass, and altho we have accomplished a lot, most of it has to do with our economic status as a country more than anything. Basically if this were a third world country things would have been worse. We always ask...why didnt the south american blacks wake up? well...it turns out they did in a lot of ways. In brazil, they had towns exclusively for themselves, and defended them with honor.

If you're interested in the plight of Africans historically throughout Latin America I got something special coming later this year.

 

[Sinnerman]

http://afroeurope.blogspot.com/2010/08/history-of-black-people-in-europe.html

http://afroasiatics.blogspot.ca/

 

[Tommy Knocks]

If you're interested in the plight of Africans historically throughout Latin America I got something special coming later this year.

 

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[Tommy Knocks]

^aite.

more links

http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/619
black people in portugal

 

[Sinnerman]

If you're interested in the plight of Africans historically throughout Latin America I got something special coming later this year.

don't forget to mention me when it's ready

 

[Sinnerman]

A piece written by a black man named Al-jahiz living in abbasid era arabia entitled "superiority of blacks over whites" written in 8th/9th century ad

you can find the full one here, or other sites just google it

http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/t...-jahiz-776-869-superiority-blacks-whites.html

dl link

http://www.academia.edu/5878362/Al_Jahiz_The_Glory_Superiority_of_Blacks_over_Whites

 

[Tommy Knocks]

A piece written by a black man named Al-jahiz living in abbasid era arabia entitled "superiority of blacks over whites" written in 8th/9th century ad

you can find the full one here, or other sites just google it

http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/t...-jahiz-776-869-superiority-blacks-whites.html

dl link

http://www.academia.edu/5878362/Al_Jahiz_The_Glory_Superiority_of_Blacks_over_Whites

 

[Poitier]

 

[observe]

It's a website with free courses from major universities. They're uncredited but you still get the same level of education.

I've been learning about the American side of the colonial story not so much how Africans adjusted in Europe after the end of Moorish influence. The Dutch didn't get into the game until about the 17th century it was Spain and Portugal that were the first ones discovering new lands after 2 centuries they had everyone else thirsty to get in the game. All the other Europeans were jealous that the Iberian kingdoms were able to discover new sources of gold in the Americas as well as sow up the gold market along the African coast. In fact, part of the reason why South America is predominantly Spanish is because of an agreement between Spain, Portugal, and the Pope which gave Spain a free hand in the rest of the continent while Portugal held sway in Brazil and the African coast.

Slavery started in America as a need for a new colonial model in what was considered the periphery of the so called "New World" so American slavery was a gradual development. Africans were no different from Europeans in that they were indentured servants and eventually earned their own land and became free people. The number of actual slaves was relatively small compared to the Caribbean and Brazil for example. It was really Stono's Rebellionthat turned the tide in American history. It was from that that slavery on the basis of race was written, it started with small laws in the late 17th and early 18th century and before long they created a slave state. When you see how the process went about, what triggered the fears of the planter class, and how much of the racist slave society was written into the Constitution you see parallels which translate even to this day.

you mean Bacon's rebellion..

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

you mean Bacon's rebellion..

Nah, I mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stono_Rebellion

 

[observe]

I won't say the Dutch weren't exploring at all, but they weren't as big a factor in the "New World" or even West Africa for some time because Spain and Portugal clamped down on the gold trade and got stupid rich from it. Plus, Columbus as a Genoa youngin travelled with Portuguese sailors and helped to map the West African coast in the late 1400s before he made his voyage to the West. Portuguese explorers were the ones to kick shyt off in West Africa/America and the other players came in later. Like if the Dutch got to S. Africa in the 1600s you're talking about nearly a century and a half after Spain and Portugal began their exploration, "discoveries", and eventually the trans-atlantic slave trade itself. It was the conquests of the Canary Islands and Cape Verde that got Spain and Portugal to such prominence. In fact, Columbus went to the Spanish crown because they wanted to find a new source of gold to rival the Portuguese who took control of the West African trade that was so coveted in Europe and the Middle East.

The thing that makes America interesting is that it wasn't all that coveted by the other Europeans, it couldn't sustain the plantation style of the islands, didn't have the mineral wealth of C/S America, harsh landscape, harsher natives. After a while when it became clear that the land was vast it became a way for landless Europeans to make a new life so America went from a bottom of the totem pole European colony to the first independent slave state. The Planter class was not only shrewd in how they created a new plantation model, but how they used the desire for land and work to divide the poor Europeans from the poor Africans. The American story is fascinating and brutally tragic all at once.

Its was more coveted by the british tho..you have to remember that Spain and portugal came in like 100 years before the british and the only resource in the carribean and south america was sugar..America had more natural resources for slave labor like tobacco (which is from mexico but primaraly grown in virginia), indigo, rice, cotton and timber..

and yeah the reason why most spaniards came to america after mexico was to search for gold before there was slavery over here