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This 6 page paper is a critical examination of Daniel Walker's book "No More, No More." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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cultural, social and psychological, and they were all designed with one thing in mind: to keep the slaves from finding their strength. This paper discusses Daniel Walkers book No more,
no more and what he said about the ways in which African-Americans resisted the assaults waged on them by whites. Discussion Walker discusses two slave societies: one in New Orleans
and one in Havana; essentially, one urban and one rural. Walker describes how the people in these two societies "created and maintain their own forms of cultural resistance to the
slave regimes assault and, in the process, put forth autonomous views of self and the social landscape (No more, no more). Using two African-American festivals, the annual "D?a de Reyes
festival" in Havana and the "weekly activities that took place at New Orleanss Congo Square," Walker is able to identify specifically those cultural beliefs and social activities that "Africans brought
to the New World and modified in order to withstand and contest the dehumanizing effects of oppression" (No more, no more). Walker also includes a look at the cultural,
economic, social and demographic operations at work in two cities and the wide-scale efforts at cultural resistance embodied in public performances" (No more, no more). The book discusses the way
in which 19th century blacks in Havana and New Orleans were able to maintain their identity and resist the misery of slavery by participating in the two festivals listed above.
Walker takes great care to describe in detail the ways in which whites subjugated and oppressed blacks so that the readers understands blacks had a valid reason for participating in
the festivals: a desire to maintain their own identity (Walker). Among the "techniques" whites used to coerce blacks were physical abuse, sexual abuse, and creating spaces that were oppressive and
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