Reading Response 1；Silencing the past and black studies

In the book I read this week, Trouillot showed his outstanding work in history in The Silent Past. He used the Haitian revolution as an example, and how different his viewpoints were from Haiti, France to the United States. He cited these examples throughout the first half of his work. He then used other examples, such as the Chicago exhibition of 1893 and how the world rewritten Columbus’s history and his discovery of the United States. He then ended with a sidebar of the proposed Disneyland that was never built in Virginia. In the first and second chapters, the author gave an example of alamo. He defeated Mexico to win, thus rewriting history, although this is a small-scale conflict, two situations have emerged, which have rewritten nearly a century. Johnson refined this research, leading to the struggle between the historical movement of African Americans and the slavery movement. And how they have appeared in the history of numbers. This book describes the black movement from many dimensions, coordinated descriptions from the past and the political environment, as well as geography and human psychology. It also tracks the experiences of black children, because the situation of black people has improved. It is through constant struggle that continuous failures eventually lead to success. The author not only uses digital means but also tracks the development of black children and writes the future and statistical mortality and number of black people on slave transport ships and black people in different periods. Different oppression and deaths on the ship, and unequal treatment of black people in dangerous work, such as being framed to death or performing heavy manual labor, such as a mining author’s description from a macro perspective through time The gradual improvement of the situation of black people, combined with the democratic rule of law in the United States, gradually penetrated into the author’s article, thereby completely and justly depicting the study of black slavery.