Indigenous Enslavement: Part 1 – w/ Christina Snyder
Teaching Hard History
Learning for Justice
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🗓️ 6 September 2019
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Millions of Indigenous people lived in North America before European colonial powers invaded. Along with an insatiable desire for free labor, Europeans brought systems of slavery that significantly differed from the historical practices of enslavement among Native nations. Historian Christina Snyder explains what happened when these worlds collided. European concepts of bondage transformed the way Native nations interacted, resulted in the enslavement and death of millions and sparked widespread resistance.
And you can find a complete transcript on our website, along with resources to help you teach the hard history explored in this episode. Resources like these...
Resources and Resources
- Teaching Tolerance: Lesson, Rethinking Discovery
- Teaching Tolerance: I am the Blood of the Conqueror, I am the Blood of the Conquered
- Teaching Tolerance: Stowage on the Slave Ship Brooks, 1788
- Wikipedia: Requerimiento: The Spanish Requirement of 1513
Christina Snyder
McCabe Greer Professor of History, Penn State University
- Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America
- Great Crossings; Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
References:
- Teaching Tolerance: Lesson, Precolumbian Native Peoples and Technology
- Doctrine of Discovery
- Teaching Tolerance: The Atlantic Slave Trade what too few textbooks told you
- U.S. Supreme Court, Johnson V. M'Intosh
- Wikipedia: Requerimiento: The Spanish Requirement of 1513
- Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South
- Sarah Shear, Social Studies & Multicultural Education, University of Washington-Bothell
Transcript
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| 0:14.3 | earning $700 million domestically and $1.3 billion worldwide. |
| 0:27.7 | But even before Black Panther premiered, it had become a cultural phenomenon among African Americans. |
| 0:33.5 | Its theatrical release was easily one of the most anticipated in black filmmaking history. |
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| 0:55.9 | coast to coast, black moviegoers donned costumes of characters from the Marvel universe, |
| 1:01.3 | as well as traditional African garb. I, too, couldn't wait to see Black Panther, but I wasn't quite |
| 1:09.6 | sure when I would be able to do so. Then I realized |
| 1:14.4 | that opening day coincided with a teacher professional workday at my daughter's school. This |
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| 1:37.1 | When opening day finally arrived, my girls and I headed to the movies. |
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| 1:52.6 | Nat, went for Wakanda to the theater. |
| 1:56.4 | But I did at least wear my Lounds County Freedom Organization hoodie, which is emblazoned with a snarling |
| 2:02.7 | Black Panther, the logo of the original Black Panther Party. |
| 2:09.2 | Black Panther the movie did not disappoint. It was action-packed, suspenseful, cleverly written, |
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