POSTS – Page 5 – Atlantic History

Digital History Site Prototype

December 5, 2016December 16, 2020Dr. Shrout

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Greetings to all my Atlantic history colleagues. Below you will find the link to my digital history project. I must confess that this site is far from being finished. So please be patient. Thank you for you understanding.

https://www.chronozoom.com/czmin/derdog101/riseoftheatlanticworldfinalprojectfall2016/

Concepts of Atlantic History

December 5, 2016December 16, 2020Dr. Shrout

David Armitage’s reading explains the beginning of the Atlantic and what it became later overtime. The Atlantic was a European invention because the product of successful navigation, exploration, settlement, administration, and imagination that led to bigger and better fortunes for Europeans during this time. European invention was successful because of better maps to navigate and a system relating to wind direction and navigation that was better than natural features. (David Armitage, Page 12). There were three concepts of Atlantic History which were 1) Circum-Atlantic History as the transnational of the Atlantic World, 2) Trans-Atlantic History as the international history of the Atlantic World, and 3) Cis-Atlantic History as national or regional history within an Atlantic context. (David Armitage, Page 15). These approaches were important to Atlantic History because these help both national and regional prospective and led to production, commerce, economics, plantations, and trade networks through the Atlantic that led to production in the Caribbean and America in later years. Bernard Bailyn’s reading explains the creation of Atlantic History through Europe. Atlantic History covers new ideas in historical study through institutions, laws, revolutions, and vivid tales of discovery. (Bernard Bailyn, Page 4-6). The people and cultures of West Africa has taken a variety of spheres since the age of the Enlightenment during the nineteenth century that became part of a global world system through self-government gave freedom and the shared idealism of the Enlightenment that ultimately led to permanent legacy of Atlantic history in the early modern years. (Bernard Baliyn, Page 111). Both Armitage and Baliyn gave explanations relating to the impact of Atlantic History because each of them explained how Europe made an impact through Atlantic History through commerce, plantation, and governments during the early days of Atlantic History. This reminds me of Allison’s post relating to forming identities through religion because it explains how colonies were formed during the early days of Atlantic imperialism based on religion. For example, this article explains the Spanish formation of religion converting people to Catholicism. During Atlantic imperialism, religion plays a key role through Atlantic History.

Final Project Prototype

December 5, 2016December 16, 2020Dr. Shrout

Here is my final project prototype on Christopher Columbus. This prototype will feature items from Christopher Columbus’ journey to America both during and after his journey. For example, a letter from Christopher Columbus after his first transatlantic voyage in 1492. Coat of Arms award rewarded to Columbus in 1493. Each explaining Columbus’ journey to America.

Prototype for Iroquois Christianity

December 5, 2016December 16, 2020Dr. Shrout

My project prototype can be found here. In my project, I aim to incorporate a lot of screenshots from Senecan Prophet Handsome Lake’s Code of Handsome Lake and provide pertinent analysis of each section. I also plan to integrate appropriate secondary sources and an annotated bibliography in order to supplement my central thesis.

Prototype of Final Project

December 5, 2016December 16, 2020Dr. Shrout

Project in-progress.

Atlantic Slave Trade and the United States

Final Project Prototype

December 5, 2016December 16, 2020Dr. Shrout

This is my final project prototype so far. I will also use Twinery to create a a story around Pocahontas and her life in the Atlantic world.

Prototype of website

December 5, 2016December 16, 2020Dr. Shrout

Click here

Catholicism, the Irish and Slavery: Is there really a connection?

November 30, 2016December 16, 2020Dr. Shrout

I have a few issues with our reading for today. First of all, when I started reading the chapter “Irrepressible Conflicts, ” by David M. Emmons, I found the topic of the connection between Catholicism and slavery somewhat interesting to read about. Of course we all know that there was a major rift in Christianity that resulted in the Reformation and the emergence of the Protestant movement. Emmons, describes how the Protestant movement shape England into a more superior nation, while Catholicism reduced the Irish to a mere slave status. This would be fine for analysis and maybe a parallel on American slavery, but Emmons spends to much time on the superior English and slave Irish and goes back to the same thought over and over again. This reestablishment of his central thesis makes me think he had nothing else to say about the connection between Catholicism and slavery (if there is one?). Even though he tries to support his argument with statements by Chevalier about how democracy only works in a Protestant nation and would never work in a Catholic nation (Emmons 13), he misses the fact that England was a Protestant nation and the monarchy resisted democracy for as long as it could. Emmons analysis on the Irish as down trodden and enslaved to the Catholic religion probably showed the bigotry and racism that was prevalent in the mid 1800s. Emmons seem to miss that each ethic group who immigrated to the United States (Germans and Italians to name a few) had to deal with adversity and degradation. My colleague Tram Hua points out that the Irish were a “necessary evil” because they were needed for the their labor. While this is true, the Irish manage to climb the ladder of success in America to make something of themselves and to provide for there families.

Catholicism, the Irish and Slavery: Is there really a connection?

November 30, 2016December 16, 2020Dr. Shrout

The Irish, the whitest non-white people in the world. Funny to think that these pale skinned red haired people were once seen as anything but white, but it was a way of making less of a group of people who valued their religion just as much as their culture. Chapter 2 “Irrepressible Conflicts: Systems of Slavery in the Civil War Era” first starts out by mentioning the formation of nation states, a nation being an area in which a group of people with similar customs and language live together. These nations soon branched out creating Empires the most successful of all being the British Empire which at one point controlled 1/4 of the world. The British viewed themselves as Protestant and took their religion where ever they went, in graving their beliefs in the minds of the people they conquered. Such as when they colonized the United States, the United States viewed itself as highly Protestant and held onto many English customs despite attempts to distance themselves from all things British after the revolutionary war. The British however ran into a brick wall when they conquered the Irish, a stubborn people by nature the Irish resisted against their oppressors who not only conquered their lands but their language renaming said conquered lands in a form of linguistic conquest. This form of conquest forced the Irish to attempt to resist British culture drawing them closer and closer into Catholicism to the point where to be Irish was to be Catholic, their culture revolved around Their religion. So naturally when many left their homes during the great hunger (the Irish potato famine) and reached the shores of America were met with racist comments and maltreatment from Protestant America. They we’re shove into unsafe factories, forced to work for a pittance making less than what was needed even make a living. When the Civil War broke out they were conscripted to fight and die for a government that oppressed them to stop an institution that they themselves were confined to. The institution of slavery, in Ireland they were “slaves with no masters obliged to law, self-interest, or domestic affections to provide for them.” In America things were the same they were slaves to industrialization, slaves to a system that forced them to fend for themselves and when slavery was eradicated with the victory of the Union they did not revive any of the reform the blacks were promised. All the emancipation proclamation do was to make “white and blacks equal to To-day in industrial servitude.” The free immigration of Irish was basically a reopening of the slave trade but this time the slaves had to pay to travel across the Atlantic to be slaves. In order to completely understand this reading we could look back to the previous post of my classmate Robert Deleon which help illustrate the change within the economy during the industrial revolution that would make white men slaves to the current “system”. he