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Cécile Fromont
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Cécile Fromont talks about the
circulation of African visual, material, and religious culture in the
context of the Slave Trade within the early modern Atlantic world.
Professor
Fromont’s writing and teaching focus on the visual, material, and
religious culture of Africa and Latin America with a special emphasis on
the early modern period and on the Portuguese-speaking Atlantic World.
Her first book, The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the
Kingdom of Kongo won a number of awards. Her essays on African and Latin
American art have appeared in Colonial Latin American Review, African
Arts, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, as well as various edited
volumes and exhibition catalogues.
absolute power depends on absolute control over knowledge, which in turn necessitates absolute corruption
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“Politicians, Priests, and psychiatrists often face the same problem: how to find the most rapid and permanent means of changing a man’s belief…The problem of the doctor and his nervously ill patient, and that of the religious leader who sets out to gain and hold new converts, has now become the problem of whole groups of nations, who wish not only to confirm certain political beliefs within their boundaries, but to proselytize the outside world.”
– William Sargant “Battle of the Mind”
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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. and... (this comment) 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 Wh
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