Power and History

      While reading these books, as always, I began to think about an array of things. These books center around Haiti, slavery and power. Power is a thing that can make a sane man mad, whether we want to admit it or not, power drives all of us. Whether its a teenager wanting the sense of power of free will from under their parents, or a grown man trying to become the next Donald Trump. But throughout history, a struggle of power pertaining to slavery has always been a big elephant in the room.
       Like many have said before me, I didn't realize much about the history of slavery outside of the U.S. Sure I knew it existed, why else would people be willing to get on a nasty ship to be sea sick for months only to be enslaved their whole lives. they wouldn't want that, so in a way we have always known about slavery in other countries but we didn't think about how widely spread and severe it was. Reading Avengers of the New World along with Silencing The Past we can now look into other countries such as Haiti to see what life was like then.
       That brings me to the point of "H"istory (what happened) versus historicity(that which is said to have happened). Now unless anything is documented on video camera from one vantage point that would be history, because people can see what had happened when it happened and know the full truth. But its people talking about what happened that is historicity, everyone has a different perspective on everything and that is great and all, but there are always two sides to every story and many facts can be misconstrued. I guess what I am getting at is that these books are great, but they are coming from people writing down things. We don't know if some part of the story seemed dull so they added a fun lil story in to spice things up. I guess what I am getting at is that pretty much all history unless seen from the same point and time is actually historicity.