#colonialism – @nickkahler on Tumblr

The reason that Charleston is so historically significant is because the neighborhood fabric is not broken up by modern buildings. You can look around and feel the colonial era or 19th-century atmosphere.

Jay Williams, "On Charleston and Historic Preservation," 2014

Be sure to document that colonial feel with your smartphone in between cars rushing by on the highway.

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The slave master, the capitalist entertainer, the pimp and the racist scientist are the four aspects of the same figure of the colonialist. This dominating figure wants to simultaneously have access to free or under-payed (wo)manpower, to develop an economy of spectacle to its bourgeois audience, to subjugate the colonized body to his desire and eventually to justify the system of rationality he uses to legitimatize his acts through the fallacious construction of an ideology that excludes the colonized body from the realms of human beings entitled to rights.

Leopold Lambert, "Saartjie Baartman, The Hottentot Venus: The Figure of the Colonized Body," 2013

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Paul Revere, Engraving of the Boston Massacre at King Street, Boston, MA, 1770

'The Boston Massacre, called the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation. Amid ongoing tense relations between the population and the soldiers, a mob formed around a British sentry, who was subjected to verbal abuse and harassment. He was eventually supported by eight additional soldiers, who were subjected to verbal threats and thrown objects. They fired into the crowd, without orders, instantly killing three people and wounding others. Two more people died later of wounds sustained in the incident. This famous depiction of the event was engraved by Paul Revere (copied from an engraving by Henry Pelham), colored by Christian Remick, and printed by Benjamin Edes. The Old State House is depicted in the background.'

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