{"id":52343,"date":"2017-03-11T21:13:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52343"},"modified":"2017-03-11T21:13:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T21:13:58","slug":"a-history-of-black-people-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52343","title":{"rendered":"A history of Black people in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

A history of Black people in Germany<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The African Courier<\/a>
\n2016-07-20<\/p>\n

Gyavira Lasana<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nPortrait of the family of Mandenga Diek, Berlin<\/a>, about 1920 \u2013 with his wife Emilie Diek (nee Wiedelinski) and daughters Erika and Doris. Many in today\u2019s Black community have roots dating to more than 100 years ago \u2502\u00a9<\/sup>SWF<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The journey has been an arduous one. The historian Paulette Reed-Anderson informs us that in 1682, a ship bearing slaves from Africa <\/a>docked in Hamburg<\/a>. Twenty-five years later (1707), African musicians are employed in Prussian military units and Mohrenstrasse<\/a> is christened in Berlin<\/a>. By 1877, however, the first of the dreadful V\u00f6lkerschauen<\/em> (\u2018ethnographic exhibitions\u2019) were staged in Hamburg and Berlin.\u00a0 Seven years later, 1884, Germany<\/a> was in full colonial mode, annexing Cameroon<\/a>, Togo<\/a>, South-West Africa<\/a> and the so-called German East Africa<\/a>. But by 1904, the colonies would revolt and Germany would respond with massacres against hundreds of thousands of Herero<\/a>, Nama<\/a> and other Africans…<\/p>\n

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The journey has been an arduous one. The historian Paulette Reed-Anderson informs us that in 1682, a ship bearing slaves from Africa docked in Hamburg. Twenty-five years later (1707), African musicians are employed in Prussian military units and Mohrenstrasse is christened in Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,28,459,8],"tags":[26421,3228,2948,26206,12889],"class_list":["post-52343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-african-courier","tag-afro-germans","tag-germany","tag-nazi-germany","tag-the-african-courier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52346,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52343\/revisions\/52346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}