ENGL 3340 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Marcus Rediker, Peter Linebaugh, Morant Bay Rebellion
5 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Arawak: indigenous tribe that was seen as peaceful and willing to accept. Carib: violent indigenous tribe recalcitrant to british influence, british narrative held them as cannibals who attacked and wiped out the arawak tribe. Cannibalism and the caribbean became two terms highly associated with each other from this term. Belief emanated that white people couldn"t work properly in hot climates thus resulting in the idea emanating that non-white people needed to be taught to work in these climates for the benefit of whites. Plantation owners didn"t want slaves to be converted to christianity thought missionaries" attempts to get onto the plantations and convert slaves as subversive. Christian = soul slaves didn"t have souls! Becoming christian meant the slaves could be humanized. Being christian required reading the bible = literacy slave owners didn"t want the slaves being literate because they thought this would make it easier for their slaves to conglomerate and rise up against the dominant order.
