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    Third Slave Journey

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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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    The translantic slave trade The best-known triangular trading method is the transatlantic slave trade‚ that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries‚ carrying slaves‚ cash crops‚ and manufactured goods between West Africa‚ Caribbean ‚American colonies and Europe. The use of African slaves was key to growing colonial cash crops‚ which were exported to Europe. European goods‚ in turn‚ were used to purchase African slaves‚ which were then brought on the sea lane west from Africa to the

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    Slave Life In The 1800s

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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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    African Slave Religion

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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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    Who Freed the Slaves

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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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    Douglass Slave‚ an American Slave‚ by Frederick Douglass slave owners rely on the dehumanization of slaves and revoke fundamental human rights in order to prevent slaves from rebelling which in turn allows the institution of slavery to continue. In order for the institution of slavery to continue all of the following participants need to perform their assigned roles. Traditionally‚ the slave master using violence and poor treatment to get his slave to obey his orders and as a result the slave obeys

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    12 Years A Slave

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    12 Years a Slave Imagine having everything that you ever wanted in life and then over a week’s span it was all taken away from you in one night. The movie‚ 12 Years a Slave‚ focuses in one the time in history when blacks were looked at as a less being then human. In the movie the main character is a African American male whose name is Solomon Northup who is a free black who lives in the upper part of New York. He has everything he needs in life but then he is abducted by these two men who tell

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    MAN‚ A SLAVE OF SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGY Man‚ a slave of scientific technology. I think this is a subject on which a lot of debate takes place time and again. I am all for the motion because I believe that man is indeed a slave of scientific technology. Man can circle the globe today in about one hour. Such is the interesting advancement of science and technology. If we carefully analyse‚ it will be clear that we use an awful lot of inventions and products in our daily life‚ which are

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    successful black people even had slaves. The slaves were treated very harsh. They were looked as property instead of regular people. Planters relied of their slaves to grow tobacco. But once the servants had served their terms of indenture‚ they became free men and women‚ and were given fifty acres of land. Their indenture was usually seven years. The supply of indentured servants slowed down by the end of the seventeenth century‚ and planters slowly began to shift to slave labor. Virginia planters started

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    Man - a Slave of Gadgets

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    There was a time when man used to be self-dependent for all activities of his daily living. A pair of arms and legs used to be his assistants to perform his errands. But as the time passed by‚ brain-the biggest weapon‚ the mammoth power human has made possible the invention various easygoing gadgets to perform his work without putting any pressure on his shoulders. Invention of machines and gadgets has made his life so easy that at a very slow pace he started becoming dependent of machines for everything

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