...Women and their forgotten role in Slavery Nigel Sadler Sands of Time Consultancy Often when the history of slavery is studied the argument is over whose history is being told. This debate rarely goes beyond whether it is the history as written by or about the white or black involvement. There is often an assumed male history. History books mainly reflect the involvement of men. The abolitionists (Clarkson and Wilberforce), the Slave traders (Canot) and the enslaved (Equaino). In portrayal of enslaved people, men appear more frequently. In the movie Amistad it is told from the point of view of Cinque; in the TV series Roots it follows Kunta Kinte. This male dominated history fails to acknowledge, belittles and devalues the role of women at all levels of slavery. What about the female slave traders, slave owners, enslaved females, female rebels and abolitionists? Are they really invisible? Verene Shepherd, in Women in Caribbean History states that up until the 1970s Caribbean books neglected women because early historians looked at colonisation, government, religion, trade and war fare, activities men were more involved in. Also some historians felt that women’s issues did not merit inclusion and where women could have been included, such as slave uprisings, their contributions were ignored. Shepherd believes changes occurred with the influence of women’s groups who tried to correct the gender neutral or male biased history. There was also a shift into social history...
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...presGRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STANFORD UNIVERSITY CASE NUMBER: EC-15 FEBRUARY 2000 CISCO SYSTEMS: A NOVEL APPROACH TO STRUCTURING ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES Mike Volpi, vice president of business development at Cisco Systems, was in his office in San Jose at Cisco’s headquarters on June 27, 1997. He was considering a set of strategic questions that he had faced many times since joining Cisco’s business development group in 1994. Volpi’s colleagues had recently identified a new networking opportunity in optical routers, and Volpi wondered how Cisco should pursue the opportunity. Should Cisco develop the product internally, or should they pursue external talent that was more familiar with the technology and market segment? If the external route was the best strategy to get the right product to market on time, should Cisco build its own external venture – or just acquire somebody outright? NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: PIPELINKS For the previous two years, Cisco had been preaching about the promise of a multiservice network – a single network capable of transporting data, voice, and video. Cisco’s service provider customers agreed that network convergence would ultimately improve cost effectiveness and allow them to expand their service offerings. However, most service providers were saddled with huge investments in their existing circuit-based voice networks. This situation implied a market need for optical (Sonet/SDH) routers that leveraged the existing infrastructure while enabling...
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