Essays on Slave Ship

I gasped for fresh air as I was unloaded with the rest of my fellow captives. Months of putrid stench made the fresh air seem almost unbreathable in its goodness. My joints ached and standing seemed a chore. This was no the young body I had left Africa with; then again, I was not the same woman who had left Africa. Months on a slave boat witnessing unspeakable horrors had changed me. I still was unsure what was to come, but it had to be an improvement upon the past couple months of my life. I hadn’t a ...

The central theme that will be focused on in this paper is white supremacy. To summarize what this means, it is basically a concept or belief (often among white people themselves) that suggests that white people are superior in terms of all aspects of like to people of all other races, most especially the colored ones or the black people. Because of this kind of reasoning, white people tend to develop the tendency to think that they should dominate society on a global scale. The objective of this paper is to discuss two historical artwork depicting white supremacy, discuss ...

Slave ship by J. M. W. Turner

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Marine painting has always amazed the viewers. One cannot help but remembering the name of Ivan Aivazovsky – the most prominent and well known marine artist in the worlds history. However, there were painters, who created only one or two paintings of the water. J. M. W. Turner has painted Slave ship almost two centuries ago – the painting was firstly exhibited in 1984. This painting is a magnificent example of Romantic maritime painting. This essay is devoted to the thorough analysis of the painting, and presenting the personal response to it. The essay will ...

The seminal 1977 miniseries Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley, was not only an important television event for its high ratings and critical acclaim, but a crucial part of popular culture that explored the various evils of slavery in all of its different forms (Creeber 166; Gantz 204). From the late 18th century to the post-Civil War America, Roots follows several generations of slaves, from Kunta Kinte (played by LeVar Burton as a young man, John Amos as an older adult) to Chicken George (Ben Vereen) and Tom (Georg Stanford Brown), all of whom experience different levels of injustice ...

Discuss Slave Ship by J. M. W. Turner shown on page 544 of the textbook. Refer to the early chapters of the text with regard to the Fundamentals of visual art, and also the relevant chapter on Media and Processes. Do not simply describe the artwork (we can all see what it looks like), but discuss how the artist has created the work and how you respond to it. How does it make you feel? Do you think it is successful? Do you like the artwork? Be as detailed as possible in responding to the essay prompt.

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This 1997 film was based on the true story of the slave ship Amistad that was captured off the cost of Cuba in 1839 after a rebellion by the Africans, who attempted to sail it back home. Instead, they were tricked by the surviving Spanish crew members and the ship ended up being captured off the coast of New York. After a lengthy legal battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, the fifty-four slaves were freed and returned to Africa in 1842. Since the U.S. had banned the slave trade in 1808, even though it continued covertly, ...

Slave Coffle in Western Sudan

Here one can only observe and weep at the inhumanity of slavery as this coffle of men moves forward in drudgery chained to each other in what looks like oppressive heat and anguish. The facial expressions of the men are full of sadness and suffering demonstrating the monstrosity and utter inhumanity of the slave trade. Naturally enough this picture continued to reinforce my personal impression of the slave trade as something abhorrent and totally inhumane. The fact that men are chained to each other continues to emphasize the bestiality of it all. The picture is powerful in its demonstration ...

This article claims to solve the mysteries of the first African slaves in the Jamestown settlement. When I first read the article, I thought the evidence was thin. After going back and reading the article again, I understand how historians Engel Sluiter and John Thornton pieced the story together. It is interesting to see how the first Africans arrived in Jamestown. I had never really thought about this issue before. I appreciate this article because it educates me and forces me to think about new issues. The article teaches that John Rolfe of Jamestown mentions two ships that ...

Markus Rediker’s, ‘The Slave Ship is truly a seminal study in thought and interest on the issue of slavery in the African countries who eventually ended up shipped like cattle to the United States and other plantantions in the Caribbean. Rediker touches on several interesting aspects but focuses particularly on first hand accounts and the shocking betrayal of some Africans who simply sold their brothers into slavery for a pittance just because it made them money. The overriding theme of the work is the fact that man can actually turn into a beast when faced with opportunities to make money ...

The main idea of the book was giving slavery a human face. This does not mean the humanization of a brutal and unnatural phenomenon of human history or its justification in any sense. The main theme of the whole book is a horrible reality of slavery seen through the real human faces, individuals with names and almost touchable appearances and distinct descriptions. They have souls, feelings and emotions in the process of enslavement and life in general. Subsequently, the main aim of Marcus Rediker is to show the reality of slavery as a characteristic feature of a historical epoch, which shaped or rather ruined ...