chap 5 plantation and salvery

roll jordan roll

spiritual song that carries another meaning and a coded message for escape (the river jordan symbolize the line between slavery and liberty)

radcliff roye

when living is a protest

toni morrison

beloved

monoculture

cultivate only one vegetal species

human monoculture

enslaved people were stripped of their native languages and cultures and forced to adopt and imposed upon them

plantationcene

refers to the ecological and social transformation caused by plantations economies based on monoculture, colonialism and slavery

maroon communities

african enslaved people that escape to freedom and create communities to preserve their culture and help the others

king cotton

europe textile industry and their need of cotton

cotton gin

machine that separate the seed to cotton fiber that increased the production and burden of enslaved people

the underground railroad

informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved african to espace to free states

harriet tubman

swing low (statue)

frederick douglas

former slave that became a writer

american civil war (1861-1865)

north is industrialized and want to get rid of slavery while south remain of slavery

the north with ulysse grant (union)

the south with robert lee (confederacy)

jim crow laws 1890

reinforce racial division and segregation in the south after the abolition of slavery

civil right movement

by martin luther king jr, fought for the actual end of racial oppression

the great migration

americans moved from south to north (illustrated by jacob lawrence)

“I can’t breathe”

• middle passage

• erasure of black people in history

• systemic violence

• environmental racism

• economic oppression (gentrification)

charles blow

black and white actually breathe different air

the legacy museum

education over entertainment

periwinkle

flowers that were planted by enslaved people in cemeteries, and help to rediscover old burial sites

in the ghostly arch (1948)

clarence john laughlin, colonial house transformed into a museum, revealing the tension between aetsthetic beauty and hidden violence

kara walker

shadow puppet to confront the violent legacy of slavery

donna haraway

plantation as “radical simplification”, the plantation system relied on forced labor, reducing enslaved people, land and crops.

dust bowl

the devastating impact of human actions on the environment

farmer and son in dust storm

arthur rothsein

john steinbeck

the grapes of wrath (encapsulates the live of people that have to move to the north during the great depression

dorothea lange

“Migrant mother” is Florence Owens Thompson, image of the great depression

arthur rothstein

photographer that raises question between the truth and the artistic manipulation

rachel carson

silent spring, detrimental effect of pesticides