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Displacement: to compel to leave home or country

Displacement: to compel to leave home or country. Tainos : a group of people who lived in Central and South America. What was life like?. Lived in villages. They were farmers. They appreciated art. Peaceful people. Conflict. Spanish explorers come and meet the Tainos .

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Displacement: to compel to leave home or country

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  1. Displacement: to compel to leave home or country

  2. Tainos: a group of people who lived in Central and South America

  3. What was life like? Lived in villages. They were farmers. They appreciated art. Peaceful people.

  4. Conflict • Spanish explorers come and meet the Tainos. • Christopher Columbus described them described them as, “Well formed, with handsome bodies and good faces… They should be good and intelligent servants…” • Many were removed from their homelands (displaced) to strange lands to serve the Spaniards in their plantations.

  5. African peoples Many African people were kidnapped and were forced to migrate by Europeans to the America’s to serve as slaves along with the indigenous people. “One day, when all our people were gone out to their works as usual, and only I and my dear sister were left to mind the house, two men and a woman got over our walls, and in a moment seized us both, and, without giving us time to cry out, or make resistance, they stopped our mouths, and ran off with us into the nearest wood. “~ OlaudahEquiano

  6. Pair share: look at this picture, what is the story? How do the elements of the artwork add to the story?

  7. Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? ~ OlaudahEquiano What’s the story here? What elements of the artwork add to this story?

  8. Your assignment Think of a time during your life when you were “displaced” Draw a piece of artwork representative of that time. Incorporate some of the elements you saw in the examples shown previously.

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