Greed placed over Humanity. The Berlin Conference of 1884, which regulated European colonization and trade in Africa, is usually referred to as the starting point of the Conquest of Africa. During this period, the land was divided amongst the European elite, without one African representative present. Original African nations was divided in the name of “progress”. […]
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Louisiana’s Creole
Many Creoles, however, are descendants of French colonials who fled Saint-Domingue (Haiti) for North America’s Gulf Coast when a slave insurrection (1791) challenged French authority. According to Thomas Fiehrer’s essay “From La Tortue to La Louisiane: An Unfathomed Legacy,” Saint-Dominque had more than 450,000 black slaves, 40,000 to 45,000 whites, and 32,000 gens-decouleur libres, who […]