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Colonialism and Resistance. The End of Slavery and…. From 1815 to 1914, the area of the world under European control had grown from 35% to 85%. While slavery ended, it was replaced by direct European control of African territories. Colonial Africa - 1900. India in 1900. Sepoy Rebellion.
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The End of Slavery and…. From 1815 to 1914, the area of the world under European control had grown from 35% to 85%. While slavery ended, it was replaced by direct European control of African territories.
The Enlightenment? “Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets, in all the corners of the globe. For centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called spiritual experience.”
Why does Fanon say that Africa should not follow Europe? “Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions”
Does Violence Cleanse? You said they understand nothing but violence? Of course; first, the only violence is the settlers; but soon they will make it their own; that is to say, the same violence is thrown back upon us as when our reflection comes forward to meet us when we go towards a mirror. Make no mistake about it; by this mad fury, by this bitterness and spleen, by their ever-present desire to kill us, by the permanent tensing of powerful muscles which are afraid to relax, they have become men: men because of the settler, who wants to make beasts of burden of them — because of him, and against him.
Richard Wright’s Bigger Thomas “A now that he had killed Mary he felt a lessening of tension in his muscles; he had shed an invisible burden he had once carried.”
Nelson Mandela (1) “A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror the oppressor. At a certain point, one can only fight fire with fire.”
Nelson Mandela (2) “ I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer and unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.”
President Bush said in his second inaugural address: • History has an ebb and flow of justice, but history also has a visible direction, set by liberty andthe Author of Liberty.
