Posted by This year, The Re-education blog will be taking a journey to explore African American Culture. In order to define African American culture we have to go back to where it all started. For African American descendants of slaves that happens to be somewhere around the southeastern coast of America on tobacco plantations in Virginia. We were sold as a commodity in the transatlantic slave trade alongside textiles, sugar, and wine so how we got there is no mystery.
The concept of slavery is a tale that is as old as time. However, the transatlantic slave trade is the most well-known part of the global slave trade. The sheer size and brutality of the operation was something never seen. Starting in the 1400’s and ‘ending’ in 1800s, the transatlantic slave trade involved most of Europe and the Western countries of Africa. An estimated 10 – 12 million Africans were taken from their homelands and sent across the Atlantic Ocean in exchange for commodities like cotton, sugar, and molasses.
The transatlantic slave trade had a far and wide reach and we all still feel the implications socially, physically, and culturally today. Consider this suggested reading for the three-part exploration of African American Culture. Check out the video by Ted-Ed below and join me tomorrow for more discussions on this subject!
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