Doing HistoryDoing History

It’s a mysteryIt’s a mystery

While WorkingWhile Working

Step Back – Where?Step Back – Where?

Step Back – What Allowed?Step Back – What Allowed?

• Slave Trade central to European Economic powers

• European powers arranged for Africans to be taken from the central interior areas

• They had to be gathered and processed before leaving Africa

What do we know?What do we know?

• Originally Fort St. Andrews or St. Andrews Island• 1588, 1618 handed over to separate trading companies

by the British• 1659 changed hands to the Dutch, back to the British in

1669• Used for gold, Ivory, and slaves• Six gun battery installed in 1816• Pirates took the island periodically but always went back

to the Brits• Abandoned in 1870 with the end of the Slave Trade

What do we have?What do we have?

What was left?What was left?

Are there other references?Are there other references?

Before the passage - HistoricalBefore the passage - Historical

Before the Passage - HistoricalBefore the Passage - Historical

Before the Passage - Before the Passage - ContemporaryContemporary

Current PractiseCurrent Practise

Current PractiseCurrent Practise

Current PractiseCurrent Practise

What are these?What are these?

More importantly – what is the More importantly – what is the significance?significance?

They are…They are…

Beads torn from the necks of slaves Beads torn from the necks of slaves taken from the centre of Africa, pieces taken from the centre of Africa, pieces of the fort, pottery used by pirates, and of the fort, pottery used by pirates, and

fort occupiersfort occupiers

Why are they important?Why are they important?

They are evidence! They are evidence!

HistoriographyHistoriography

The act of DOING history.The act of DOING history.

Exploring Historical PerspectivesExploring Historical Perspectives

• Examine the book assigned to your group using the sheet provided.

• Who is there? Who is not?

The Centrics…The Centrics…

• Ethnocentric – Perciving and operating in the world through the lens of a particular cultural or ethic group

• Afrocentric – The African perspective

• Eurocentric – The European perspective

The PrimersThe Primers

• Review the primers on the Afrocentric and Eurocentric perspectives

Formative AssessmentFormative Assessment

Outcomes:• define and articulate the meaning of

"historiography, ethnocentrism, Eurocentism

• recognize the roots of Afrocentricity from the history, geography, and culture of Africa

The Task: Create an advertisement featuring one perspective over another.