Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics
This lecture video talked about a number of important factors all relating to history and slavery. I learnt that Indigenous populations plummeted because of violence and them having been turned into slaves or killed in the 1800’s following Christopher Columbus. Additionally, all the black slaves- 10 million slaves forced across to work in Africa. I know this perspective (African perspective) because of having learnt this in my high-school history class back in Kenya. A lot of detail was shared with us then on how difficult the situations for slaves had been, most slaves did not even make it back to Africa because of the kind of conditions that were present on the boat, for instance, they were all forced to sleep and defecate in the same small space of the boat which leads to tons of slaves falling sick, and if they did fall ill they would be thrown off the boats. This was one of the biggest coerced movement of people in history. Because of Christopher Columbus, the population ...