1. Persian Letters
1.1. Cultural representations that became generalized to the idea of a single culture.
1.1.1. organized ideas about gender in the new world
1.1.2. organized preconceptions about the Orient
2. The perception on how the East is portrayed, for example as exotic, inscrutable, despotic, and erotic.
2.1. Framework of racial thinking
2.1.1. Edward Said
2.1.1.1. Anyone who has read the Persian Letters imposes stereotypic views on the people of the east
2.1.1.2. A concept to understand European conceptions of the middle and far east was developed.
2.1.1.3. Said's argument is that theres a lens used that distorts the actual reality of the different people and places from us to which is known as orientalism a framework used to understand the unfamilar and the strange.
3. The Atlantic Slave Trade
3.1. Multinational system includes: Spain, British, French, and Portuguese
3.1.1. Imported slaves from Africa to the Americas to work at plantations to help with labor in terms of sugar, coffee, tobacco and later cotton plantations.
3.2. In 1834, Britain freed 800,000 slaves
3.2.1. Even after Britain and Spain abolished slavery, the slave trade continued the Unites States throughout the 19th century.
3.3. Amistad Ship (Spain 1839) (DBD)
3.3.1. Return passengers on the ship free to Africa or to Spain as slaves
3.3.2. John Quincy Adams represented defendants in the Amistad case.
3.3.3. Joseph Cinque, a West African man of the Mende people led mutiny aboard.