Frederick Douglass Makes Us Think?
After viewing Atlantic Slave Trade Video, what are you thinking regarding Frederick Douglass and his narrative that he has written? Please respond with thoughtful connections and observations based upon your reading and viewing. This blog response is due by 2:30p.m. on Mon., Mar. 19th
posted by Greg T at Friday, March 16, 2018
31 Comments:
I am thinking that the slave trade was really crazy. The amount of people that were moved over a period of almost 200 years is insane. These people were treated like common good and livestock without even a second thought about the horrible act. Frederick Douglas was born in the United States so he doesn't know how it felt to be ripped form a home but at the same time that makes it worse because then he never knew was a peaceful home felt like.
After watching the atlantic slave trade video it’s crazy to think about how many people were enslaved and taken from their home. This is humbling to watch because there are so many ships out of africa and it is completely unfair and disgusting how this happened to these people. Especially reading the book about frederick douglass and seeing first hand how dehumanizing and traumatizing being a slave was it is insane to think about how many people were slaves. There are thousands and thousands of stories about slavery and it is very sad.
This video made me realize truly how many slaves there were. There were so many taken into slavery and its truly shocking and horrible how many slaves there were. While reading the Frederick Douglass text, I didn't really take in or realize how many slaves there were. The numbers are unbelievable. This video has definitely made me understand Frederick Douglass' text more and what took place during that time. I know understand the capacity of slaves there were and how many people had to experience the troubles, pain, punishment, etc. that Frederick Douglass did. It also was interesting to see all the different places that had slaves. In Frederick Douglass' text I just looked at the one area that Frederick Douglass described. I now know how slavery truly took place all over the world.
Watching is video about slave trade and the amount of people that were enslaved with crazy, just thinking about how they all had lives which were taken home. These people were separated from their families, like little kids were separated from their parents. When I was a young child I would be scared out of my mind when I couldn't find my mom, thinking about how these kids had no choice in their separation from their parents. This is sad to see the amount of people forced into slavery.
Looking at the Atlantic Slave Trade video, the amount of voyages traveling across from Africa to Central and South America abruptly increases. At the beginning of the video, there were fewer ships, but as we got into the 17/1800s it noticeably shot up. Looking at the video, millions of people are symbolized with a small black dot on the screen. It seems so small, but every individual aboard of these ships are real and obtain human emotions, thoughts, and families. We know this, because of the Frederick Douglass Narrative. In his book, he puts forth all of his stories and grief. This is one person. One person left a huge impact on this world, and the history of slavery. This video is not drawn to scale, because one spec on a screen shows millions of stories and people.
While watching the visual, I was definitely shocked to see that South America had so many transports of slaves. whereas America, I saw less in certain areas. Something that peeked my interest was the thought of what that visual would look like today, especially in America. While reading the book, it may be hard to capture the full gravity of the situation, but once you visualize and see the amount of ships that carried innocent people to their own demise. I feel that when I go back to the text to finish the book, I will look at the text in a different matter.
From the Atlantic Slave Trade Video, I can see how many people are being traded from country to country. There were lots of slaves in the video being traded to South America and America. It’s sad to think that they sent that many people over to work for nothing. I think this can relate to Frederick Douglass because it shows the dehumanization of slavery.
I think that it's pretty crazy to think about how Frederick Douglass writes about the slave trade in America and how it was terrible and cruel, and yet the majority of the slave trade actually took place in South America, not the U.S.. This graphic also puts the entire idea of slavery into a better perspective now that you see the sheer amount of people who went through everything Douglass described. It's hard to imagine that people actually allowed this without a single ounce of sympathy.
Fredrick Douglass has only the perspective of a slave in America and how many people were enslaved, but after watching the video you find out that there were way more slaves going into central and South America. We only have the perspective of how it is to be an american slave but there may be some areas of the world that would have been much worse because of how many slaves were delivered to other countries that could of had it way worse than Fredrick Douglass.
The video and Fredrick Douglas makes me question how many slaves there actually were. While watching the video it was clear to me that many slaves took boats across the sea. It's crazy to think that they were treated like objects and transferred kind of like food. There was so many black dots going one way to America and that is where all the slaves were. Fredrick Douglas mentions that slaves didn't even cost that much money which is unbelievable because humans are worth more than money and no one should be treated like that.
While watching the visual, I was definitely shocked to see that South America had so many transports of slaves, whereas America, I saw less in certain areas. Something that peaked my interest was the thought of what the visual would look like today, especially in America. While reading the book, it may be hard to capture the full gravity of the situation, but once you visualize and see the amount of ships that carried innocent people to their own demise, it makes the situation more real. I feel that when I go back to the text to finish the book, I will look at the text in a different matter.
After the visualization of the slave trade, I am thinking more about the volume of slaves shipped to the Americas and how slaves were shipped to many places in the Americas. We’ve heard Frederick Douglass’s story, and he was only one of many, many slaves located in the United States. It is amazing to imagine how many other slaves experienced similar, either staying enslaved or eventually escaping like Douglass. It’s also interested to think about the progression of slavery in other American countries. I saw many ships sent to Brazil and Cuba, for example, and have never heard anything about how they handled slavery in my history classes. I’m sure that by now they must have gone through a reform. Overall, the animation showcases how much I don’t know about the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
It's hard to contextualize that each dot is a large group of people taken from their homes. Its kinda like looking at a city at night or into traffic and trying to think of just how many people you are really looking at. I think if we could truly see these atrocities on such a personal level for each of the millions of people, it would devastate us.
The Atlantic Slave Trade video it reaffirmed that Fredrick Douglass represents one of millions of people inhumanely sold into slavery. In the world, the Atlantic Slave Trade has created massive repercussions in modern-day Africa, South America, and North America. In the video there were a very surprising number of slaves sold into modern-day Brazil, Columbia, and Venezuela. For most of the video the number of slaves sold into modern-day Sao Pualo and Rio de Janiero easily dwarfed the number sold everywhere else.
This video and the whole topic of slavery in general makes me think about how incomprehensibly large the amount of slaves taken really was. The number is so incredibly large, that it is impossible to even truly understand the individual lives and experiences unique to each person. It is extremely unfortunate, but to most viewers of videos and demonstration such as this, those people will only ever be numbers in a diagram. If we were truly able to understand the individual lives of every slave that was one of those numbers on the screen, we would be much more able to feel for the struggle and we would be much more willing to make a change to save them.
After watching the Slave Trade Video, You can see that back in the 1600's there wasn't much going on. But as you got to the late 1700's and early 1800's, there like thousands of ships going back and and forth. A lot of the ships were going to South America, and it's sad that slaves would be dragged away from their families, and split up. Most of them probably didn't even know where they were going. I'm glad that Fredrick Douglass was able to help a bunch of others escape slavery, and become free.
Not only with the horror the Slave-trade caused, reading a firsthand account truly brought light to the problem. The problem is slavery still exists today. With the slave trade being so vast, there are ancestors of slaves all over the world. This common ancestry also shares common knowledge of the slave trade, allowing for fewer incidents to come about. With slavery still existing, everyone needs to try something to abolish it, whether it be spreading knowledge or actually freeing slaves.
After watching the slave trade video, it's made me realize the absolutely terrifying reality about the slave trade in the late 1700's. Connecting to the Narrative of Fredrick Douglass, it's astonishing how of all the millions of slaves that came to the United States, his story is just one of many many more. Some could have considerably higher impact on American History, some less, but I think there's a certain unique aspect of Fredrick Douglass that really encapsulates the whole ideological changes that occurred in the Atlantic Slave trade. It does a good job of showing the lives of both a plantation slave, a city slave, and a liberated slave.
After watching the slave trade video, it is sad that the reality that racism and slavery still are very problematic things today. It is sad how people use humans as a way of trading, undermining the worth of an induvidual
After watching the slave trade video, I realize the harsh reality of the slave trade. I think sometimes we make the issue of slavery sound a little less bad than it actually is when in reality is was such an awful experience for so many people. Through reading Frederick Douglass, I'm horrified and shocked. Honestly, I'm having trouble putting words down about this topic, because I feel like silence is the only way a person can respond to something so horrific. Those our some of our ancestors, both slaves and slave owners, and that fact just terrifies me.
The slave trade was a very heartbreaking point in world history that redefined the industrial workforce, especially in the United States. If Douglass, Tubman, or any anti-slavery figures in American History saw this animation, their hearts would drop. With as little information as they had during the 16th-17th century, watching this for the first time, not knowing the full scale of a disaster such as this, it would break their heart. Watching tens of thousands of africans being transported from their homeland to work under a beating sun for hours on end. Not to mention the tens of thousands more that died during this transportation.
The whole topic of slavery makes me thing about how sick humans can be. It was so massive that it was almost impossible to stop. I think we need to do something as humans to stop it.
Slave trading was not one of the proudest moments in the American's history. It showed that humans have an evil presents that allowed them to mistreat and abused people because we saw this race as less than us. Learning about slave trading was hard for me because it's sad how people could treat people like this. They treated them as they were animals. I honestly didn't know the whole story about slave trading and this opened my eyes. I wish that I was about to do something to stop this, but it seemed impossible to the anti-slave people to stop it because it was over ruling our society and was huge.
Slave trading was a terrible time in american history, or even the history of the world. It showed the truly evil side of humans and showed how quick we can turn on each other just based on your skin tone. The slaves were treated as if they were nothing, they were property so they had the same rights as a chair or a house. This is crazy to me and has made me think about how cruel that time was, and I hope that that never happens again.
Looking at the Atlantic Slave Trade video, the amount of voyages traveling across from Africa to Central and South America abruptly increases. At the beginning of the video, there were fewer ships, but as we got into the 17/1800s it noticeably shot up. Looking at the video, millions of people are symbolized with a small black dot on the screen. It seems so small, but every individual aboard of these ships are real and obtain human emotions, thoughts, and families. We know this, because of the Frederick Douglass Narrative. In his book, he puts forth all of his stories and grief. This is one person. One person left a huge impact on this world, and the history of slavery. This video is not drawn to scale, because one spec on a screen shows millions of stories and people.
After watching the Atlantic Slave Trade video and reading the Frederick Douglass narrative, my thought is that the slave trade was tragic and it was pathetic how the slaves were treated. They were seen as animals or goods, not human beings. I think Frederick Douglass' narrative expresses this struggle for all slaves and helps those who are racist to understand how wrong this act is.
After watching the infographic, I realized how skewed my perception of the Slave Trade was. Slavery in any case is unethical and disgusting, however, I never realized that America wasn't the only country stealing people from their homes and forcing them to work for little to no pay in such disconsolate conditions.
After watching the video it made me think about how insane it actually was. So many people were moved in the span of 200 years. The human beings were treated like animals and the slave owners showed no respect for them. These people were ripped from their home land and families to be brought over here and live the rest of their life as rubbish.
After viewing the Atlantic Slave Trade Video, it is insane how many slaves were captured and transferred into other parts of the world. I knew there were lots of slaves but I never visually thought about how many there were. I also never really realized how many of the slaves were transported to other parts of the work and not just America. Either way it is still awful that slaves were ever captured in the first place.
After watching this video, I didn't realize how many people were enslaved around the world. It really makes you step back and look at how grateful we truly are. Living in Centennial, CO, we don't really get exposed and get to hear or experience what happens around the world. Harsh things happen everyday, and this video and reading the narrative about Frederick Douglas made it able to hear and visualize what horrifying things Douglas and everyday slaves went through on a daily basis. This video really opened my eyes to what things some people go through everyday and how long these things have been going on for some time and how dehumanizing things are something that is still a thing even today.
Watching this video is so incredibly sad. I have learned about slaves and Americas history before in school, but sometimes it is desensitized, so much so that it sometimes doesn't feel real, but seeing this video just makes it so real and scary. It is so sad to see people being treated like animals, if not worse than animals. And when you think about Frederick Douglass's tragic story, it is just one of the millions of brutal stories. This topic is so incredibly sad and difficult to grasp.
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