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Looking Through Lenses: Social Darwinism

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Looking Through Lenses: Social Darwinism:

This is an academic writing I did on Social Darwinism. If you would like to use this anywhere, or have questions/comments, please message me! Thank you! - Devin Rogers

Social Darwinism is a complex concept and an intriguing ethical theory, which has been seen in various parts of the…

"Scientific studies on human populations have not supported the tenets of social Darwinism. It..."

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““Scientific studies on human populations have not supported the tenets of social Darwinism. It appears that it is discrimination and the ideas of superiority, as well as differential access to natural resources, that produce most inequalities. The fact that some societies are more powerful than others and that some individuals are within a society do not have equal access to necessities and luxuries is due to social history. When populations or classes of people within societies are freed from discriminatory practices, they can reach the same levels of wealth, power, and education as those groups which traditionally define themselves as superior.””

- Physical Anthropology by Philip L. Stein and Bruce M. Rowe (via asongveera)

euromeangirls: Berlin Conference (1884)

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euromeangirls:

Berlin Conference (1884)

citycollaboration: The Next Big Trend In Urbanization Will...

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citycollaboration:

The Next Big Trend In Urbanization Will Revolve Around Small Cities

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/small-cities-population-growth-by-2050-2012-5#ixzz2NDVIQLYG

citycollaboration: Map of the Day: Urbanization in 15 Seconds...

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citycollaboration:

Map of the Day: Urbanization in 15 Seconds

The United Nations has a neat new interactive graphic up that visualizes the world’s urbanization by country. At a glance, you can see what percent of a country is urbanized, and also how that population has grown (and will grow) between 1950 and 2050. Unfortunately, I can’t embed it, but you can see the whole thing here.

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intothebeautifulnew: Baby doffer, photo by Lewis Hine, 1910,...

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intothebeautifulnew:

Baby doffer, photo by Lewis Hine, 1910, Alabama. Hines wrote: ”Donnie Cole. ‘Our baby doffer,’ they called him. This is one of the machines he has been working at for some months at the Avondale Mills. Said, after hesitation, ‘I’m 12,’ and another small boy added, ‘He can’t work unless he’s twelve.’ Child labor regulations conspicuously posted in the mill.”

intothebeautifulnew: Mother & children hulling berries in...

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intothebeautifulnew:

Mother & children hulling berries in Delaware, 1910. Photo by Lewis Hine.

goadthings: Cotton manufacture...

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goadthings:

Cotton manufacture then

http://pinterest.com/goadthings/cotton/

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wahnwitzig: Radcliffe, pictured from Stand Lane and looking...

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wahnwitzig:

Radcliffe, pictured from Stand Lane and looking north into the town, around 1902.

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isaacdrw: Haitian Revolutions: Crash Course World History #30...

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isaacdrw:

Haitian Revolutions: Crash Course World History #30 (by crashcourse)

lynxx101: The Haitian Revolution is the only successful slave...

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lynxx101:

The Haitian Revolution is the only successful slave revolt in history, and resulted in the establishment of Haiti, the first independent black state in the New World.

melanatedcontributions: Boukman Boukman was a Hougan, or Voodoo...

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melanatedcontributions:

Boukman

Boukman was a Hougan, or Voodoo priest, whose death was considered a catalyst to the slave uprising that marked the beginning of the Haitian Revolution. Boukman was born in and later sold by his British to a French plantation owner, who put him as commander(slave driver) and later a coach driver. His name came from his English nickname “Book Man” which he earned due to his ability to read. Boukman presided in the role of Hougan on August 14, 1791 with an African-born Voodoo priestess and conducted a ceremony at the Bois Caiman. Boukman began his famous ceremony by asking for God’s help in the following words:

“The God who made the sun that shines upon us, who causes the sea to rise, the thunder to roar. do you hear me. All of you. Hidden in the clouds, God witnesses the atrocities the whites commit against us. The god of the whites sanctions their crimes and doesn’t care about us. But God, who is so good, orders us to avenge ourselves. He will direct our arms and stands beside us. Destroy the image of the white men’s god who is thirsty for our blood and tears. Listen to the voice of freedom rising in our heart.”

And then, the African-born Voodoo priestess possessed by Erzulie Dantor sacrificed a pig which symbolizes the wild, free and untamable spiritual power of the forest and the ancestors. The participants soaked their fingers in the blood of the pig and made an oath to die, rather than serve the whites. This amazing ceremony combined with Bookman’s large size warrior-like appearance and fearsome temper, made him an effective leader and helped spark the Haitian Revolution. Soon after the uprising began, French authorities captured Bookman and executed him by beheading. The French then publicly displayed his head in an attempt to dispel the aura of invincibility that Boookman had cultivated. This attempt failed. Since then, Haitians have honored Bookman by admitting him into the pantheon of Loa(Voodoo Spirits). Bookman his well revered in all Haiti and his ceremony is worldwide known as the reason of Haiti’s Independence. His name will never be forgotten in Haitian’s heart.

lynxx101: The Leaders of the Haitian Revolution. The first...

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lynxx101:

The Leaders of the Haitian Revolution. The first black nation to successfully revolt against slavery.

Toussaint Louverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution. His military genius and political acumen led to the establishment of the independent black state of Haiti, transforming an entire society of slaves into a free, self-governing people.[1] The success of the Haitian Revolution shook the institution of slavery throughout the New World. In the last decade of the 18th century, Toussaint L’Ouverture, led a revolutionary movement that liberated St. Domingue, his
homeland in the Caribbean, from colonial tyranny and declared an end to slavery. Toussaint, a self educated former slave, defeated Europe’s best trained forces including armies from France, England and Spain and France. After securing its independence, St.Domingue renamed itself Haiti and became the first Republic in the world to declare all men and women free and equally entitled to govern their own lives. Toussaint’s achievement still ranks as one of the most extraordinary events in human history.

Alexandre Pétion was born in Haiti to a Haitian Mulatresse mother and a wealthy white French father, who withheld his name because the baby was too dark. The name Petion came from the French-patois nickname Pichon (which means my little one) Like other gens de couleur libre with wealthy father, Alexandre was sent to France in 1788 to be educated and study at the Military Academy in Paris. Pétion returned to Saint Domingue as a young man to take part in the créole expulsion of the British Armie from Saint Domingue (1798-1799). Along with Jean Jacques Dessalines, Pétion with his mulatto soldiers join the slave in order to fight the French Army for the Independence of Haiti.

Henry Christophe was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution. Winning independence from France in 1804. On February 17, 1807 after the creation of a separate nation in the north, Henry Christophe was elected President of Haiti. Half white, Christophe had been a slave a waiter in a public hotel at Cap Français (now Cap Haitien) where he made use of his opportunities to gain a knowledge of men and of the world.When Leclerc’s expedition arrived to retake Saint Domingue, it was Christophe who warned the French general not to land his men on the island, threatening to burn Cap Français to the ground and to fight on the ashes. Henry Christophe was illiterate, but he learned to speak English and French fluently. In 1811 Henry made the nothern state of Haiti a kingdom and was ordained emperor by Arch Bishop of Milot Corneil Breuil. Henry Christophe was called the constructor, he built for his own use six châteaux, eight palaces and the massive Citadelle Laferriere.

On January 1st, 1804, following the actual massacre of the remaining French planters, from the city of Gonaives, Jean Jacque Dessalines officially proclaimed the country’s independence, renamed it Haiti, the very first name given to it by the indigenous Taino/Arawaks. Under Dessalines command, Haiti became the First Black Republic on the face of the earth, the second independent Nation in the Americas; and undoubtedly one of the most remarkable moment in the global history of the human race. On January 1st, 1804, it was in Haiti that the Declaration of Independence as a genre began its trajectory from a single Nation’s document to a global history. Dessalines made sure that the written Document would be called ” Acte de L’Independance” Act of Independence rather than following the US, to call it “Declaration de L’Independance”, Declaration of Independence. The freedom of the people was not acquired by a Declaration, but by Actions.

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"Remember that I march accompanied by the god of war and the god of fortune."

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“Remember that I march accompanied by the god of war and the god of fortune.”

- Napoleon Bonaparte to the Council of Elders, 19 Brumaire (10 November, 1799)