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a selfie of a Black man, D'arreion Nuriyah Toles, is overlaid with three paragraphs of textâtwo on the top third of the image, one on the bottom thirdâfrom the essay â1492: A New World Viewâ by Sylvia Wynter.
the text of the top paragraphs reads as follows:
a selfie of a Black man, D'arreion Nuriyah Toles, is overlaid with three paragraphs of textâtwo on the top third of the image, one on the bottom thirdâfrom the essay â1492: A New World Viewâ by Sylvia Wynter.
the text of the top paragraphs reads as follows:
âIf it was to be Europe's earlier encounter with the peoples of Neolithic Berber stock in the Canary Islands and their conquest and exploration of these people on the ostensibly âjustâ grounds of their idolatryâ
with their lands being therefore perceived as legitimately expropriable (FernĂĄndez-Armesto 1987:230-243) and with this pattern, when extrapolated by the Portuguese to West Africa, being validated by the pope (Mudimbe 1988)â
it was to be in the terms of the same system of symbolic representations, related to this original pattern, that two of the events founding to the instituting of the post-1492 Caribbean and the Americas were to be effected.
For it was to be within the terms of the same discourse of legitimation that, first, Columbus would, on landing, at once take possession of the islands at which he had arrive, expropriating them in the name of the Spanish state,
while offering in his first report home to ship back some of the indigenous peoples as slaves for sale on the âjustâ grounds that they were idolaters.
Second, it was also to be on the initial basis of the same mode of juro-theological legitimation that, under the auspices of the slave-trading system out of Africa that had been established by the Portuguese in the wake of 1441,
large numbers of peoples of African descent would be transshipped as the substitute slave labor force whose role would be indispensable to the founding of the new societies.â
the text of the bottom paragraph reads as follows:
the text of the bottom paragraph reads as follows:
âNot only would they be used, as Morgenthau (1991) points out, as the totally disposable, coercible, and unpaid labor force that alone made possible the accelerated economic development of the Americas.
They would also play a central role in the instituting of the bases of the new social structure. In this role they would not only serve to free the indigenous peoples from the outright slavery to which many had been reduced in the immediate decades after 1492,
when a flourishing intra-Caribbean and Caribbean-mainland slave trade in /cabezas de indios y indias/ (heads of Indian men, as in /heads/ of cattle) (Pastor 1988:58-59) and one that had been initiated by Columbus himself,
had made the fortunes of some of the founder families of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (Wynter 1984:30). As the liminal category whose mode of excluded /difference/, based on the hereditary slave status of its members as the only /legitimately enslavable/ population group,
they would also generate the principle of similarity or of conspecificity that would come to bond, if on the terms of sharply unequal relations, the incoming Spanish settlers with the indigenous peoples.
From the mid-sixteenth century on, this principle would come to bond the latter as members of a category whose status was that of /hereditarily free/ subjects of the Spanish state.â
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