Dr. Spaulding reads aloud and comments on Howard W. French's book, Born in Blackness, Part 1. Chapter 5.

Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Howard W. French's book, Born in Blackness.  The main argument of the chapter is the role the Aviz clan played to start Portugal off as an empire of colonization.  It results from the economic crisis in Europe with the lack of gold specie and the reduced workforce in consequence of the deaths associated with the Plague.

Dr. Spaulding begins to read the first part of Changó.  This is poetry and it is incomplete.  You will need to read the poems and begin to think about the images and the meanings the poetry generates for you.

Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Chapter 3 from Howard French's book Born in Blackness.

Dr. Spaulding reads aloud the chapter, offers commentary and relates it to our primary text Changó.

Dr. Spaulding reads aloud chapter 3 from Part 1.

Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Chapter 2 and provides some insight, comments and critiques on the reading.

Dr. Spaulding reads Howard French's chapter 1 of Born in Blackness.

Dr. Spaulding reads aloud the introduction to Howard W. French's book, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War.

Aloud reading and commentary of the introduction to Changó.