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Still, it would be a stretch to say that Zama delves into slavery as economic exploitation.Zama (Photo credit: Strand Releasing)
A young Black Frenchman aims a gun at le flic
that gunned down his friend; a Filipino youth stabs his girlfriend’s
pimp to death; an Argentine colonial official has both his hands axed
off. These are just some of the dramatic scenes in the Brooklyn Academy
of Music’s (BAM) new series, On Resentment,
in dialogue with our time’s own resentful, violent zeitgeist, often in
the context of marginalized communities and racism. Emily Wang and
Matthew Shen Goodman, the editors of Triple Canopy magazine, which co-presented the series with BAM curator Ashley Clark, ask in their online essay, “A Note on Resentment”:
What
are the possibilities and limitations of resentment—as a basis for
thinking, speaking, and writing, establishing intimacy and forging
solidarity? How does resentment shape not only how we speak but what we
say? How is resentment stoked, policed, circulated, and mobilized? How
does resentment channel our attentions and efforts, and to what ends?
Elles Houwelingon, January 21, 2019, New Historian
Everyone has heard shocking stories about the transatlantic slave trade,
but this was hardly the only type of slavery in which Europeans were
engaged. The Pacific slave trade involved the forceful enslavement of
Pacific islanders from the mid 19thcentury to
the 20thcentury. This particular type of slavery is often referred to
as “blackbirding”.
The primary focus of “blackbirding” was to supply cheap labor to
sugar-cane plantations on Pacific plantations, particularly in
Queensland, Fiji, New Caledonia, and the Samoan Islands. This was mainly
achieved through trickery and kidnapping. They were frequently
deceived about the length of time for which they were “contracted” and
the nature of their “contract”. If all this failed, the islanders were
simply loaded onto slave ships at gunpoint.
The captured islanders were collectively known as Kanakas, which means
Person or Man in Hawaiian. These workers were essentially treated a…
The truth about Jackson’s savagery was just as disturbing as the fake news. After a particularly bloody battle in 1814, Andrew Jackson’s men counted the dead Indians by cutting off their noses. They collected 557 noses.
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Jackson ran an ad in the Nashville Gazette, in October, 1804, for the capture of a runaway slave, which stated that in addition to the reward, he would pay an extra $10 per 100 lashes (up to 300), to anyone who willing to inflict them upon his miscreant property. He was known to hold a vengeful lifetime grudge against anyone whom he felt had slighted him, regardless of how minor the supposed offense. His betrayal the Choctow tribe, whom he persuaded to become American allies over the British during the war of 1812, culminated in the “Indian Removal Act” (Trail of Tears), of which he took personal responsiblity to see implemented, resulted in the death of thousands of men, women and children. It’s no surprise that the current occupant of the White…
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