Prime minister garry conille, in port Au Prince, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you so much for taking the time to keep the focus on the urgent, urgent needs of haiti. It is indeed important to focus on what is happening in your country. You are interim Prime Minister, head of government. But let us be honest with each other. How much Power And Control over your country do you really have right now . Well, actually, through the Transition Compromise of april 3, weve been able to put a government, where most political parties are very much involved in the governance process, and we feel very, very happy with the progress were making. For the first time in haitian history, weve been able to set up a government within seven days, and that government including 18 ministers is pretty much a consensus of several stakeholders. And were already putting in place very concrete efforts to try to improve the circumstances of the haitian people. Weve changed the Police Force. Weve changed th
Prime minister garry conille, in port Au Prince, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you so much for taking the time to keep the focus on the urgent, urgent needs of haiti. It is indeed important to focus on what is happening in your country. You are interim Prime Minister, head of government. But let us be honest with each other. How much Power And Control over your country do you really have right now . Well, actually, through the Transition Compromise of april 3, weve been able to put a government, where most political parties are very much involved in the governance process, and we feel very, very happy with the progress were making. For the first time in haitian history, weve been able to set up a government within seven days, and that government including 18 ministers is pretty much a consensus of several stakeholders. And were already putting in place very concrete efforts to try to improve the circumstances of the haitian people. Weve changed the Police Force. Weve changed th
Individuals on africas west coast and details about the trip across the atlantic. Okay, everybody. Greetings. Good morning. Our subject for today is the atlantic Slave Trade. And the first thing i want to say about it is that we have a big subject, a tremendously important subject, and truly a difficult subject to deal with today. Its importance lies in its relationship to the transformation of the world in the early modern era. By that, i mean essentially three things. First, the origins and the rise of capitalism around the atlantic beginning in the late 16th century and continuing thereafter to the present. Secondly, the establishment of European Dominance around the world. This is another major theme to which the Slave Trade is connected. And then, finally, we are talking today about one of the very foundations of american history. America is the result of the meeting of three very old cultures. And you might say continents. People from europe, people from West Africa, and people f
Okay, everybody. Greetings. Good morning. Our subject for today is the atlantic Slave Trade. And the first thing i want to say about it is that we have a big subject, a tremendously important subject, and truly a difficult subject to deal with today. Its importance lies in its relationship to the transformation of the world in the early modern era. By that, i mean essentially three things. First, the origins and the rise of capitalism around the atlantic beginning in the late 16th century and continuing thereafter to the present. Secondly, the establishment of European Dominance around the world. This is another major theme to which the Slave Trade is connected. And then, finally, we are talking today about one of the very foundations of american history. America is the result of the meeting of three very old cultures. And you might say continents. People from europe, people from West Africa, and people from native america. Today we are going to talk about one of those three pillars. T
First, the origins and the rise of capitalism around the atlantic beginning in the late 16th century and continuing thereafter to the present. Secondly, the establishment of European Dominance around the world. This is another major theme to which the Slave Trade is connected. And then, finally, we are talking today about one of the very foundations of american history. America is the result of the meeting of three very old cultures. And you might say continents. People from europe, people from West Africa, and people from native america. Today we are going to talk about one of those three pillars. The african Slave Trade. Now, i want to begin with a quote by a very eminent africanamerican Scholar Activist named w. E. B. Du bois. Heres what Du Bois said about the atlantic Slave Trade. Du bois wrote, the most magnificent drama in the last thousand years of human history is the transportation of 10 million human beings out of the dark beauty of their Mother Continent and into the newfoun