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    Artisan Slaves

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    Artisan Slaves Taylor Longmore October 11‚ 2014 Period 4 Mr. Gallagher In the 1700’s when slavery was a big business. Most slaves were treated horribly‚ beaten‚ raped‚ and whatever else the master could think of. There were few slaves who were more than just common field slaves they were called artisan slaves. Artisan slaves were slaves who were paid for their services. Having skills such as being a blacksmith‚ carpenter‚ cooper‚ shoemaker‚ tanner‚ spinner‚ weaver etc. These specific slaves

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    Slave Trade

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    February 6‚ 2013 The Slave Trade Nzing Mbemba‚ Willem Bosman‚ and Olaudah Equiano all gave three different points of views of the slave trade. Each point of view represented the cycle of the trade from; African King Mbemba who had his people taken by the Portuguese as slaves‚ Bosman was a chief agent‚ who transported the slaves‚ and lastly Equiano who actually was a slave. Each document was a primary source that gave its bias side of how and what was happening in the slave trade. Taking all sides

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    Mistreatment of Slaves

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    everlasting slaughter of innocent slaves. Though there are occasions where one hears that there was a master that didn ’t mistreat and abuse his slaves. Those types of master-slave relationships were extremely rare. According to many text and history books slaves were often mistreated and abused on a daily basis. The question‚ now is‚ did the mistreatment and abuse of the slaves‚ in particular the women slaves‚ in the autobiography‚ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚ written by Harriet Jacobs actually

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    Hammonds Slaves

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    To what extent were Hammonds’s slaves able to resist the oppression of slavery? Was the plantation an all powerful institution that made slaves helpless and passive‚ or did slaves have opportunities to exercise power? When James Henry Hammond’s marriage placed this plantation in his possession he had 147 slaves he had to control. He made a "system of roguery" to dominate his slaves. He discouraged slave society and their culture and created a system to destroy the base of black harmony. He

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    Slave Rebellions

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    "Slave owners had the right to beat‚ whip‚ brand‚ or imprison slaves for petty offenses or for attempted escape. Owners vied with each other in creating imaginative punishments‚ as historian Kenneth M. Stampp relates: A Maryland tobacco grower forced a hand [slave] to eat the worms he failed to pick off tobacco leaves. A Mississippian gave a runaway a wretched time by requiring him to sit at the table and eat his evening meal with the white family. A Louisiana planter humiliated disobedient male

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    Slave Families

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    overseers thought‚ slaves lived their own lives. They made friends‚ fell in love‚ played and prayed‚ sang‚ told stories‚ and engaged in the necessary chores of day to day living. These things as well as family and religion were also important to the slaves. Throughout the South‚ the slave owners defined the living arrangements of slaves. Most slaves lived together in nuclear families with a mother‚ father‚ and children (Phillips 1929‚ 14). The stability of the slave family was often challenged due

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    So This Was Adolescence‚ by Annie Dillard: Author Writing Style Different authors use different styles of writing to express the ideas. The style of writing is what paints the picture of the story. In the story So This Was Adolescence‚ by Annie Dillard‚ there are two major traditional writing styles exhibited. The first style Illustrated in So This Was Adolescence is comparison/contrast. In this style‚ the author compares or contrast the character with specific mannerisms of others. The next

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    When do you throw in the towel? Admit that a lost cause is sometimes just that? There comes a point when it all becomes too much. When we get too tired to fight anymore. So we give up. That’s when the real work begins. To find hope where there seems to be absolutely none at all. They take pictures of the mountain climbers at the top of the mountain. They are smiling‚ ecstatic‚ triumphant. They don’t take pictures along the way cause

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    An Indian farmer India is a country of villages. More than half of the people living in India reside in village. Farming is the main and most chosen occupation of people living in villages. Therefore majority of Indians are farmers.an Indian farmer used to be the very picture of simplicity‚ but today things are changing. Farmers in states like Punjab‚ Haryana and Kerala are no longer simple. Some of them are well-educated and practice mechanized farming; like sowing machines and harvesting machines

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    Slave Trade

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    Part 1: The slave trade was conducted by the Europeans in order to raise their profit of sugar plantation‚ and they cornered Africans into a harsh situation during and after the voyage. From the early 1500’s to the early 1600’s‚ the Europeans increasingly bought slaves from Africans who needed weapons and other food supplies for their ongoing wars. To maximize the profit‚ the captains of slave ships wanted to carry as many healthy slaves for as little cost as possible by choosing either a loose or

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