The Zimbardo Prison
Experiment
The experiment is assigning roles for a group of experiment subjects, one role as prisoners and the other as guards. Then the subjects will be placed inside a prison, where they will be whatever the roles they were assigned with. The experiment lets us see how the guards start to abuse their powers and authorities over the prisoners and things get out of control, as one of the guards started spraying a prisoner with a fire hose. This experiment connects to The Book of Negroes in a way when the Toubabu abused their powers and took complete control over the Africans, physically and mentally abusing them so much just like the prison guards to the point where the Africans couldn't take it anymore and rioted on the ship.
The Milgram experiment
The experiment starts with 3 people: one being the experimenter, one being an actor, one being the subject. The actor will pretend to be a subject as well and the subject and him will both be assigned the roles of teacher but the actor will however, act that he has received the role to be a student. The subject would now be the teacher and has to obey the experimenter, he has to teach the learner (the actor) a set of words and when the leaner didn't get it correct the subject will have to shock him, the shock is fake though. This experiment is to test how far people would be willing to go to obey the authority, being the experimenter and the results shown that
The experiment is assigning roles for a group of experiment subjects, one role as prisoners and the other as guards. Then the subjects will be placed inside a prison, where they will be whatever the roles they were assigned with. The experiment lets us see how the guards start to abuse their powers and authorities over the prisoners and things get out of control, as one of the guards started spraying a prisoner with a fire hose. This experiment connects to The Book of Negroes in a way when the Toubabu abused their powers and took complete control over the Africans, physically and mentally abusing them so much just like the prison guards to the point where the Africans couldn't take it anymore and rioted on the ship.
The Milgram experiment
The experiment starts with 3 people: one being the experimenter, one being an actor, one being the subject. The actor will pretend to be a subject as well and the subject and him will both be assigned the roles of teacher but the actor will however, act that he has received the role to be a student. The subject would now be the teacher and has to obey the experimenter, he has to teach the learner (the actor) a set of words and when the leaner didn't get it correct the subject will have to shock him, the shock is fake though. This experiment is to test how far people would be willing to go to obey the authority, being the experimenter and the results shown that
most of the subjects are
willing to shock their patients to death (a full shock) to obey the authority.
This relates a bit to the Book of Negroes because the Africans were willing to
work in the plantations as hard as they could even if it meant death for them
to obey the authority just because they didn't have a choice.
Stockholm Syndrome
A psychological disorder that makes the person in captivity have a positive feeling towards the captors. This connects to the Book of Negroes where Aminata defends Mr. Lindo by saying that 'killing him won't bring our child back' when she was asked by Chekura whether he should kill Lindo or not.
Stockholm Syndrome
A psychological disorder that makes the person in captivity have a positive feeling towards the captors. This connects to the Book of Negroes where Aminata defends Mr. Lindo by saying that 'killing him won't bring our child back' when she was asked by Chekura whether he should kill Lindo or not.
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