Biographical Sketches THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TRAINING & EDUCATION NETWORK Alphabetical by Speaker’s Last Name Alexion‚ Art Art is the systems engineer‚ part of the Infrastructure Engineering Group at RHD Enterprise Information Systems. While having a hand in much of the company’s IT infrastructure‚ he is primarily responsible for the email system‚ file servers‚ and deployment and management of mobile devices‚ including phones and tablets. He has spearheaded RHD’s mobile strategy
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Sufferings of a Female Slave “Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. Superadded to the burden common to all‚ they have wrongs‚ and sufferings‚ and mortifications peculiarly of their own” (Gates and McKay 294). Although male narrators like Frederick Douglas had touched on what slave women went through‚ the public had yet to hear it come from the mouth of a woman. Harriet Jacobs tells her story in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and brings attention to the problems
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What did slave life “look like” when it expanded in the south after the introduction of the cotton gin? Why? There are many perspectives of slave live‚ from the young children to matured adults‚ Saltwater Africans had one thing in common which was heartache. The shipment of slaves coming from the upper to lower parts of the south was a domino reaction by the invention of a disarmingly simple machine that processed as much cotton in a single day as fifty slaves cleaned by hand‚ created by Eli Whitney
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The work‚ “Slaves” by Seneca‚ is a personal essay where the author speaks upon the improving of the treatment of slaves. He also speaks of the way a master would treat a slave and how a master should treat a slave nicely for his own sake. Seneca’s straightforward mentality promotes the welfare of the master‚ but does not advocate rectification among the slaves. The article goes into depth as to what Seneca’s personal assessment of a master’s action towards slaves. A few examples include that
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Christianity was amongst the slave community. Being that the vast majority of the slave community was born in America‚ converting slaves to Christianity was not a struggle. All slaves were not Christian‚ and slaves that had accepted Christianity were not official members of the church. Over time Slaves made Christianity their own. There would be occurrences where church gatherings would hold both white and black members. Slave religion was both institutional and non institutional. The slave gatherings would
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Consequences of the Slave Trade…… Why go back five centuries to start an explanation of Africa’s crisis in the late 1990s? Must every story of Africa’s political and economic under-development begin with the contact with Europe? The reason for looking back is that the root of the crisis facing African societies is their failure to come to terms with the consequences of that contact. Start 15th century- Expanding European empires in the New World lacked one major resource -- a work force. In most
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American Slave Revolts: The Creole Affair Although Northern newspapers no doubt give much attention to slave revolts and rebellion during the period of slavery little attention has been given by historians to the most interesting of all‚ The Creole Affair. To revolt means to detach from or rise against a higher authority for whatever reason. A slave revolt was when slaves rose against their mastered and tried to gain freedom anyway possible. A slave revolt is technically slaves having
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Who Freed the Slaves The long standing question of “who freed the slaves” has been under debate since the conclusion of the Civil War. One side of the argument takes the more obvious claim that emancipation came at the hand of the great Abraham Lincoln. The other side of the argument claims that the Slaves themselves attained their freedom. Both sides have been heavily researched and strongly supported with many facts. Do we give credit to one person for generating the political backing and eventually
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film “12 Years a Slave” is a work of authentic fiction taking into account the occasions set out in Northup’s book. To make a story circular segment and to fit the story into a two-hour film‚ various occasions portrayed in the book have been disposed of and others have been extended together. A couple events by one individual have been ascribed to another or scenes have been added to bolster the story. Other than the prelude‚ the scenes before the kidnaping‚ the murder of a slave by a mariner on the
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going on a trip and he gave 3 of his slaves some of his money with coins called “talents” to keep safe while he is away. To the first slave the master gave five talents‚ to the second slave he gave 2 talents‚ and to the third he only gave one talent. The first and second slaves went and traded their talents and doubled their original amount. The third slave went and dug a hole and buried the talent to keep it safe. When the master came back from the trip each slave came and gave back the talents and
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