The European Slave Trade as a Holocaust
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Most people associate the term Holocaust with the murder of approximately 6 million people of Jewish heritage in Nazi concentration camps in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s. The American Heritage Dictionary notes, however, that the use of the capitalized term "The Holocaust" to refer specifically to the death of Jews in Germany only became widespread beginning in the 1950s. The more traditional meaning of the word is to refer to "the massive destruction of humans by other humans" (American Heritage Dictionary n.p.). In this sense of the word there is no question that the European slave trade, which caused the deaths, enslavement and forced labor of millions of Africans from the 15th through the mid-19th century was a holocaust ("The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade" n.p.).In early 1999, several nations, including Germany and the United States, began negotiations to consider compensation for the approximately 700,000 to 1.6 million survivors of Jews who were either killed during the German holocaust or who were forced to perform slave labor in the concentration camps. The fund that was established to pay claims as a result was estimated at approximately 4.8 billion. Apparently, there was very little argument that the victims of the German holocaust had been robbed of life and liberty by the Nazis and their supporters and that the victims deserved to be compensated for their loss and suffering. If one looks at the German holocaust, therefore, and the fact that what occur
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Afrocentricity
Afrocentricity is a world view from an African-centered perspective. It is based on the belief that the current world view privileges Eurocentrism, or a world view that defines everything from a European point of view. Afrocentricity is probably most well-known on college campuses and other academic circles, but it has the potential to make a contribution to all areas of life. Molefi Asante, considered by some to be the "father" of Afrocentrism, argues that Afrocentricity seeks to reconfigure people's way of thinking so that African people, and people of African descent, interpret their world as though they were subjects who could impose their interpretations on the world rather than as though they were objects who were defined and interpreted by others, namely Europeans.
Scholar Tunde Adeleke argues that slavery nurtured in Blacks "a tragic conception of history" that has, to today, continued to destroy any desire for self-fulfillment (Adeleke 21). In particular, he argues that the detribalization or "de-Africanization" process of Africans during slavery was a deliberate process of intermingling slaves of different ethnic and linguistic origins to prevent any sense of collective identity among Bl
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