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English to Spanish: SOS_to_sp General field: Social Sciences
Source text - English TANIA CORDERO
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Project description: Translation for an academic audience of the book called Sea of Storms by Stuart B. Schwartz. I translated chapter 14 which focus on slavery, disadvantage communities, religious beliefs, and revolution. Here’s an extract of the text that consist of 281 words.
SOURCE TEXT
Calamity, Slavery, Community, and Revolution (1790- c.1840)
God rewards and punishes in His kingdom ... and we in ours.
Creole defender of Venezuelan independence
He would not consider as enemies men who had so barely escaped in a contention with the force of the elements; but they having, in common with his own people, been partakers of the same danger, were in a manner entitled to every comfort and relief which could be given in a season of such universal calamity and distress.
Marquis de Bouille (1780)
The years from the hurricane prone decade of the 1780s and the creation of the United States (1783) to the independence of most of Latin America by 1825 and the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834 witnessed tremendous social and political upheavals in the Greater Caribbean. The French Revolution (1789-1796), the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815), and a series of slave revolts, conspiracies, and maroon wars throughout the region disrupted commerce, altered sovereignties, and sometimes changed social relations. The growing movement in Europe for the end of the slave trade and the abolition of slavery itself, beginning about 1787 and achieving some success with the Danish (1803), British (1808), and Dutch (1818) terminations of the legal trade, all contributed to the transformation of many of these societies. Of course, the ripples of the intellectual and political effects of the revolutionary era were felt far beyond the Caribbean, but the multiracial and slave based nature of its societies made them particularly susceptible to the intellectual arguments of revolutionary change, to the implied message of equality and the end of servitude, and to the Haitian example of direct action against slavery.
Translation - Spanish TARGET TEXT
Calamidad, Esclavitud, Comunidad, y Revolución (1790 – c.1840)
“Dios recompensa y castiga en Su reino… y nosotros en el nuestro”.
Defensor criollo de la independencia en Venezuela
“El no consideraría enemigos a hombres que apenas pudieron escapar de una contienda con la fuerza de los elementos; pero estos hombres, al haber sido participes del mismo riesgo, con su propia gente, de cierta manera tenían el derecho a cualquier acomodo y alivio que era brindado en un época de calamidad y angustia universal”
Marqués de Bouillé (1780)
De la década de 1780, los años de mayor actividad de huracanes y la creación de los Estados Unidos (1783) a la independencia de la mayor parte de Latinoamérica para 1825 y la emancipación de los esclavos en las islas británicas en 1834, la Cuenca del Caribe presenció un enorme trastorno social y político. La Revolución francesa (1789-1796), la Revolución haitiana (1799-1804), las guerras napoleónicas (1799-1815), y una serie de revueltas de esclavos, conspiraciones y guerras de cimarrones a través de la región interrumpieron el comercio, alteraron la soberanía y en ocasiones redefinieron las relaciones sociales. El creciente movimiento contra la trata de esclavos y la abolición de la esclavitud en Europa, que había comenzado cerca de 1787 y había logrado cierto éxito al ponerle fin a la trata legal danesa (1803), británica (1808), y holandesa (1818), contribuyó a la transformación de muchas de estas sociedades. Por supuesto, los efectos de las olas políticas e intelectuales de la era de la revolución se sintieron más allá del Caribe, pero la naturaleza de estas sociedades multirraciales y esclavizadas las hacía particularmente susceptibles a los argumentos teóricos de cambio revolucionario, al mensaje implícito de igualdad, al fin de la servidumbre y al ejemplo haitiano de acción directa contra la esclavitud.
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