Transatlantic Slave Trade Study Abroad Day Four
It was unreal seeing the Kenwood House. I kept thinking of the movie Belle. I felt like I was on the set or something. How cool to think they made a movie about this place. Then the really important thought hit me. This was not just exciting because they made a movie about this house. It was exciting because of the house's rich history and the people who actually walked its rooms. Along time ago Dido grew up in this house as an equal to her white cousin who was like a sister to her. Dido became a true symbol of how black women can be equally as proper and desirable as white women. Black people being lesser than white people really became a cultural norm at the time possibly to try to justify slavery in the minds of the white people involved in the slave trade.
The book Blonde Roots really is good for giving perspective that slavery could just as easily have happened the other way around. Black people could have enslaved white people and therefore more African cultures and customs would have impacted the worlds social norms. Dido is a women in a backwards role from what was normal at that time in history. Normally a black women would have been a slave or a housekeeper.
The book Blonde Roots really is good for giving perspective that slavery could just as easily have happened the other way around. Black people could have enslaved white people and therefore more African cultures and customs would have impacted the worlds social norms. Dido is a women in a backwards role from what was normal at that time in history. Normally a black women would have been a slave or a housekeeper.
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