The Seven Years war, where traditional narratives focus on either the European or the North American theaters, had a significant Caribbean component, with Britain seeking to take over Caribbean colonies from both Spain and France. These days, the importance of the role of transatlantic slavery is better known and more studied than it was in the past – and rightly so. Without the trade of persons belonging to African civilisations across the globe, but particularly the Atlantic, the modern world would not have been made. If you’re interested in learning more about the history of Africa, its central role in the world, and the ways in which both have been misunderstood in the West, I highly recommend Born in Blackness. Born in Blackness offers us a new understanding of our common history, and reminds us that confronting that past is precondition for the construction of a different future.

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As French reports, “Despite being less than one-fourth the size of Long Island, its sugar production drew more imports of slaves than the total volume of Africans trafficked to the United States throughout its history, including the colonial era. A "file MD5" is a hash that gets computed from the file contents, and is reasonably unique based on that content. Students of Heart of Darkness will often tell you,” the late Nigerian novelist and critic Chinua Achebe once explained, “that Conrad is concerned not so much with Africa as with the deterioration of one European mind caused by solitude and sickness. But French makes a convincing case that each was much more important and influential than standard narratives of modern history suggest.Some historians have estimated, nonetheless, that as many Africans may have perished in these ways as survived the transatlantic passage. Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War. France's Caribbean colonies, dominated by Saint Domingue (later Haiti), accounted for a third of France's trade and 15% of its economic growth during its 1716-1787 boom years. In Chapter 5, “Rethinking Exploration,” French explains the ways in which standard accounts of the period present Africa as merely a geographic obstacle to be overcome by Europeans en route to Asian spice markets farther east.

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From a broader perspective, the marginality of the North American colonies can be seen in the Europeans’ allocation of the slaves they captured in Africa. This starts with the grand hajj of Mansa Musa of the Malian Empire, whose lavish spending of gold became the talk of the entire Muslim World, and then, French asserts, to Europe, where stories of unimaginable wealth had spread. Points out that while people have argued that Western dominance in world affairs can be explained by superiority in weapons or other technology (not, Europeans were notably behind Arabs and Chinese in technology of all kinds), the philosophical superiority of Christianity (whatever that might mean), or (hopefully in the past), the inherent superiority of Europeans, there's no actual evidence for any of these arguments.Portugal would first go to the Canaries, and then to Elmira, and from there, it could afford to go to Brazil and India. Cites sources that references to the Indies in the 1500s as destinations/objects of exploration usually referred to Africa and sometimes the myth of Prester John (61).

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For most of Africa's history, however, Europe was not as interested in African territory as it was in African people.His most recent non-fiction book, titled Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War was published by Norton/Liveright in October 2021.