Exercising Agency In Thematic Blaufarb's Inhuman Trafficke
In the book Inhuman Traffick the authors Rafe Blaufarb and Liz Clarke discussed the way slave trade was set up; from the way the environment was all the way down to the personal encounters. This book documents one of the most dramatic incidents in nineteenth-century history. This book was written in a way that was easy to follow and in the graphics it made it into a story or conversation that was set up so simply to get across some really intense things/topics.
Inhuman Traffick gave many examples of groups of people exercising agency. Agency in this context means “the subjective awareness that one is initiating, executing, and controlling one’s one volitional actions in the world,” (Dictionary.com). The two examples of this that jump out are the British and the French or the KRU sailors the ones who tried to enslave free British subjects. These two groups are what I see as groups exercising agency. The British to me knew …show more content…
This was a tough situation for both parts. British just wanted what was right and wanted their men and women to be saved and the French just wanted to do what they wanted to better themselves and ignore the British. The British government tried to give France the benefit of the doubt and wanted to know the whole truth and just to get their people free. They fell victim to kindness and not standing their ground long enough or strong enough. The French were clearly the one exercising agency because they knew they could potentially get away with it because the British were “blind” to everything going on until it was brought to their attention. The French should have stayed off the British and their territory and once they did not they should have realized it was all game for the British to step up and find out answers. Instead the French got all defensive when they were caught red
Inhuman Traffick gave many examples of groups of people exercising agency. Agency in this context means “the subjective awareness that one is initiating, executing, and controlling one’s one volitional actions in the world,” (Dictionary.com). The two examples of this that jump out are the British and the French or the KRU sailors the ones who tried to enslave free British subjects. These two groups are what I see as groups exercising agency. The British to me knew …show more content…
This was a tough situation for both parts. British just wanted what was right and wanted their men and women to be saved and the French just wanted to do what they wanted to better themselves and ignore the British. The British government tried to give France the benefit of the doubt and wanted to know the whole truth and just to get their people free. They fell victim to kindness and not standing their ground long enough or strong enough. The French were clearly the one exercising agency because they knew they could potentially get away with it because the British were “blind” to everything going on until it was brought to their attention. The French should have stayed off the British and their territory and once they did not they should have realized it was all game for the British to step up and find out answers. Instead the French got all defensive when they were caught red