Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 1619 project

hi emmanuel, there is an endless supply of topics and interest in what linked to the terrible slave trade. i hope this 1619 project's goals are really served by all the commentary that follows. nowadays, in this country, it is a fight since any projects intended to advance the interests of the black world are being politicized and condemned by the republicans, especially in places like texas. the notion of barring approaches like critical race theory makes plain where we, as academics, have our work carved out for us.

best

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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Dear Professor Harrow Kenneth,

Thank you for enlightening us on the time line of this savage trade in humans created in the image and likeness of God.  It is gratifying that in Florida, when slaves convert to Catholicism, they are freed.  In Brazil where their numbers were much larger and their organizational ingenuity was most sophisticated, such that aspects of Yoruba culture became so dominant leading to the fear that the European culture and language would be overrun,  the Catholic Church Responded by sending a good number of Catholic Priests to sustain the superiority of the European language and culture. 

Let us get in touch brother Kenneth.

I am,

Emmanuel Babatunde

On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 7:03 AM Harrow, Kenneth <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:

could one of you historians explain to me why the 1619 project wants to make the claim that the first slaves brought to the u.s. was in 1619 when the spanish had done so earlier?

here's a piece of the wiki reference on this:

In Spanish Florida and farther north, the first African slaves arrived in 1526 with Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón's establishment of San Miguel de Gualdape on the current Georgia coast.^[38][39] They rebelled and lived with indigenous people, destroying the colony in less than 2 months.^[40] More slaves arrived in Florida in 1539 with Hernando de Soto, and in the 1565 founding of St. Augustine, Florida.^[39][40] Native Americans were also enslaved in Florida by the encomienda system.^[41][42] slaves escaping to Florida from the colony of Georgia were freed by Carlos II's proclamation November 7, 1693 if the slaves were willing to convert to Catholicism,^[43][44] and it became a place of refuge for slaves fleeing the Thirteen Colonies.^[44][45]

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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