Showing posts with label Atlantic Slave Trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atlantic Slave Trade. Show all posts
Thursday, May 7, 2015
historical marker acknowledging for the first time the contributions of slaves to the creation of early New York and its economy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/15/a-permanent-reminder-of-wall-streets-hidden-slave-trading-past-is-coming-soon/
Monday, November 3, 2014
The Slave Ship "Fredensborg"
Norwegian Slavetrade
Norwegians like to think that slave-trade was 'none of our business'
Norwegians like to think that slave-trade was 'none of our business'
The remains of one of the Danish slave ships, the Fredensborg, has been found in our days on the Norwegian coast where it was wrecked in 1768 after having sailed almost all the way along the triangular route. After the wreck of the Fredensborg was located and identified in 1974, one of the main tasks was to research the extensive written materials preserved in Danish and Norwegian archives pertaining to the ship’s journey. These texts, together with the items that were retrieved from the wreck – from exotic goods such as elephant tusks and dyewood to the crew’s tobacco cans and shoes with fine buckles – constitute probably the most thorough documentation of a slave ship found as a wreck anywhere in the world. Thus, it is known that on this voyage the Fredensborg took 265 Negro slaves onboard in Africa, 24 of whom died en route across the Atlantic. The survivors were sold at good prices at an auction in Christiansted on Saint Croix.
The Danish-Norwegian slave trade brought approximately 100.000 Africans to the New World as slaves, and according to Mr. Svalesen there is no reason to believe they were better treated than other slaves.
The transatlantic slave trade was the most extensive forced transportation of human beings in history. Millions of Africans were carried across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. The ships are gone, but their tracks remain on the ocean floor.
This Internet exhibit is about the Danish-Norwegian slaver, "Fredensborg". The ship ran aground on the southern coast of Norway on December 1, 1768.
Education Transatlantic Slave Trade (TST)
The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO)Picture gallery
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Sunday, July 3, 2011
Welsh Gypsy, Welsh Gypsies, Welsh Romanies, Kale, Wales: Jumping the broom
The final project for this course required that each student collect, identify, and analyze 40 items of folklore
if people reacted strongly to what he had to say, he had probably hit a nerve and was probably on to something.
taking his fellow folklorists to task for being weak on theory. In his opinion, the presentation of data, no matter how thorough, is useless without the development and application of theory to that data. It is not enough to simply collect, one must do something with what one has collected
"my professional goals are to make sense of nonsense, find a rationale for the irrational and seek to make the unconscious conscious."
"The problem is that the fundamental question of meaning is never raised or discussed at all," he wrote in "Interpreting Folklore." "Why should a particular custom or belief like the evil eye exist in the first place?"
When Time magazine ran a story on his paper, noting that Dundes considered football “a ritualized form of homosexual rape,” enraged football fans sent the professor death threats.
Dundes presumably could have avoided controversy if he had stuck to collecting, classifying and describing jokes, folk tales and superstitions. It was the analysis that always got him into hot water.
Alan Dundes, folklore scholar
Jumping the broom is a phrase and custom relating to wedding ceremonies "many diverse cultures, those of Africa − Europe including Scotland, Hungry and Gypsy culture – include brooms at wedding rituals." [1]Particularly by the Romani gypsy people of the United Kingdom[2] and “Evidence showing the wedding custom was practiced by gypsies in England, Scotland.”[3] and Wales[4] as well as African-American and other groups.
[Danita] admits there is no recognized documentation suggesting that ethnic groups in Ghana, who were prominent in the Atlantic Slave Trade, ever jumped over the broom.[13] Still, Green's research implies that the ceremony used today stems from traditional rites of maturation still practiced in Africa. Danita Rountree Green, in her book Broom Jumping: A Celebration of Love
Dundes, Alan. "'Jumping the Broom': On the Origin and Meaning of an African American Wedding Custom", The Journal of American Folklore
"...argued that the custom originated among the Welsh people", C.W. Sullivan III, "Jumping the Broom": A Further Consideration of the Origins of an African American Wedding Custom
Welsh Gypsy, Welsh Gypsies, Welsh Romanies, Kale, Wales
The True Welsh Gypsies - By Bose Wales
For some Gypsies landing on Britain's shores, was Cymru their Romani-llan ? Were they accepted by most and rejected by few as portrayed in the film Eldra - See More
The Romanichal and the Kale
if people reacted strongly to what he had to say, he had probably hit a nerve and was probably on to something.
taking his fellow folklorists to task for being weak on theory. In his opinion, the presentation of data, no matter how thorough, is useless without the development and application of theory to that data. It is not enough to simply collect, one must do something with what one has collected
"my professional goals are to make sense of nonsense, find a rationale for the irrational and seek to make the unconscious conscious."
"The problem is that the fundamental question of meaning is never raised or discussed at all," he wrote in "Interpreting Folklore." "Why should a particular custom or belief like the evil eye exist in the first place?"
When Time magazine ran a story on his paper, noting that Dundes considered football “a ritualized form of homosexual rape,” enraged football fans sent the professor death threats.
Dundes presumably could have avoided controversy if he had stuck to collecting, classifying and describing jokes, folk tales and superstitions. It was the analysis that always got him into hot water.
Alan Dundes, folklore scholar
Jumping the broom is a phrase and custom relating to wedding ceremonies "many diverse cultures, those of Africa − Europe including Scotland, Hungry and Gypsy culture – include brooms at wedding rituals." [1]Particularly by the Romani gypsy people of the United Kingdom[2] and “Evidence showing the wedding custom was practiced by gypsies in England, Scotland.”[3] and Wales[4] as well as African-American and other groups.
[Danita] admits there is no recognized documentation suggesting that ethnic groups in Ghana, who were prominent in the Atlantic Slave Trade, ever jumped over the broom.[13] Still, Green's research implies that the ceremony used today stems from traditional rites of maturation still practiced in Africa. Danita Rountree Green, in her book Broom Jumping: A Celebration of Love
Dundes, Alan. "'Jumping the Broom': On the Origin and Meaning of an African American Wedding Custom", The Journal of American Folklore
"...argued that the custom originated among the Welsh people", C.W. Sullivan III, "Jumping the Broom": A Further Consideration of the Origins of an African American Wedding Custom
Welsh Gypsy, Welsh Gypsies, Welsh Romanies, Kale, Wales
For some Gypsies landing on Britain's shores, was Cymru their Romani-llan ? Were they accepted by most and rejected by few as portrayed in the film Eldra - See More
The Romanichal and the Kale
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