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Slavery / La esclavitud Click to edit Master subtitle style in Puerto Rico

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1. Criollos / Creoles in Puerto Rico [these words have

different meanings in different places and at different points in time]

1. Slave uprisings and palenques in Puerto Rico

1. The abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico

1. Marcos Xiorro
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Puerto Rico
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This year marks the end of the Haitian Revolution, during which most or all of the European settlers left to settle in other Caribbean islands. The European population lived in fear of similar uprisings throughout Latin America. This is also right after the US purchased Louisiana from the French, and many of the French citizens moved to Puerto Rico.

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Slaves were not abused as often as in other countries, due to the high cost of replacing them. Some slaves were able to buy or earn their freedom and work as skilled laborersblacksmiths, tailors, cobblers, etc. Money could also be earned by turning in escaped slaves, or delivering useful information about escapes or rebellions to owners or authorities. Many of the Africans who arrived in PR were already exposed to Christianity while still in Africa. Others, especially the West Africans, were Muslims and combined Islam with their native practices.

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With to edit of Haiti, sugar style Click the fall Master subtitlecane production shifted to PR and Cuba, and increased in output. More slaves had to be brought in to meet 4/15/12 demand.

La zafrasugar cane harvest

Sugar was introduced to PR in 1501. Click icon to add picture

This was backbreaking, highly physical, and often dangerous, work. The soil had to be tilled, the cane Click to edit Master subtitle style planted, picked, processed, cooked and stored. Roads had to be built to and from the haciendas. 4/15/12

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The social structure on a plantation or hacienda: the owner/ dueo [hacendado] foreman / capataz
The slave population rose from 11,260 to 25,591 between 1790-1802. The majority of sugar plantations were on the criollos coasts in Ponce, Mayagez and Guayama.

freed Black workers / liberados slaves / esclavos

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Some info about tonights film:

Mandingas [also Mandinka]West African. Lived in family-related compounds in rural villages. @1/3 sold into slavery in 15001700s. bozalAfrican slave recently brought from Africa, where previously free It was illegal to import mulattos as slaves, but it happened. FemiAfrican name GambaAfrican name meaning love me [Carolina] meaning warrior [Marcos] Dona title, not a name. Is used with a 1st name, like Sir Jeffrey. Bomba--created in Puerto Rico at the end of the 17th century. Bomba was danced at the sugar plantations on Saturday nights and holidays, usually in open areas in the sugarcane fields or in the plazas of the town square. Although the bomba developed as a secular dance form, it provided an outlet for spiritual expression and release as well. Forbidden from worshiping their ancient African gods, the African communities fused their customs onto the worship of St James. Du

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The representation of social structureEuropeans, Creoles, freed Blacks, slaves [house vs. field, men vs. women] The filming techniqueschronology [jumping in time and place] Click to edit Master subtitle style
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Love and marriage

The power of rumors and gossip

Groups / Grupos discussion / para discutir

The actions and motivations of Jacinto [the drunk]. Las acciones y los motivos de Jacinto [el borracho].

How are love and marriage presented between the various cultures? How is Marcos used by different groups? Your impressions of Marcos as a character/Pedro 4/15/12 Telemaco as an actor.

Cmo se presentan el amor y el matrimonio entre las dos culturas?

Cmo se utiliz Marcos los varios grupos? Las impresiones de Marcos como protagonista y de Pedro Telemaco como actor.

Next week The White Darkness

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Haiti and Voodoo [ vod in Spanish, vodoun in Haitian Creole]

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handout for readings, and presentations 100 word summary of todays filmwritten for little kids

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