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    Jacob Hoggard an Ambassador For Change Victoria Buttineau ACE Communications- Assignment#6- Research Paper Instructor: Velda Parmenter Thursday‚ May 9th‚ 2013 Jacob Hoggard is changing the worlds view on poverty through education. The lead singer of the band Hedley has partnered with the co-founders of Free The Children Craig and Marc Kielburger to aid in the fight against poverty. Since Hedley’s firs performance at We Day; which is a movement that empowers young people to make changes both

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    African Slaves

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    shortage. In their search for other sources of labour the planters tried Chinese‚ Madeirans‚ even free African slaves but each of these options all had their disadvantages. After a trial and error period with many different labourers‚ it was found that the Indians were the ideal labourers. The Indentureship period was supposed to be a fair‚ humane and just system unlike the African slave trade and slavery on the whole but this was not the case. In many aspects of the Indentureship period‚ it

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    Petition of Slaves

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    Petition of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature On January 13‚ 1777 seven African-American men in Massachusetts came together to go to the courts and their goal was to gain freedom. These men were slaves and in order for them to be set free they had the choice of running away‚ with the possibility of getting caught‚ or gathering a petition to take to the Massachusetts court. Just because these men had a petition does not mean that it would be passed. The Massachusetts colonial government had

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    A Slave with a Birthday

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    said‚ “Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips‚ others by their restlessness and ambition.” In the children’s picture book Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine and illustrated by Kadir Nelson‚ Ruskin may be proven right. This historical bibliography‚ published in 2007 by Scholastic Press‚ exposes children to slavery in its most potent era‚ where a young slave named Henry “BOX” Brown is stripped away from his family not only once but twice. Henry Brown was a slave. Since he was a slave he did not

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    Slaves dream

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    The physical image of a slave is portrayed through the first stanza of the poem. He is tired from the all work that he has to do on the fields and falls asleep. This last dreaming slumber gives way to a series of aneurisms which reflects the desires of his waking life. The phrases “ungathered rice” and “sickle in his hand” indicates that his assigned task is left incomplete by him due to his immense fatigue. His bare breast represents the barrenness of his life as a slave and his matted hair “buried”

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    Slave Society

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    Slavery done so we do not need to remember it!” Respond to this statement drawing specific reference to the nature of slave society and how the enslaved fought against their enslavement. Slavery done so we do not need to remember it!” Respond to this statement drawing specific reference to the nature of slave society and how the enslaved fought against their enslavement. Every society‚ in the Caribbean or anywhere else‚ is a product of the particular historical forces that shaped

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    Slave Trade

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    Africans who have came to America were slaves who were purchased through the international slave trade. White colonists viewed Africans as uncivilized and ‘turned to the international slave trade to fill their labor needs.’ The white English settlers knew nothing of any other culture; people were thought to be white or Christian‚ anything else was ‘uncivilized’. Slavery served for two purposes; a labor system and racial control in a white country. The slave trade was important in building the colonial

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    Slaves no more

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    Slaves No More Back in 1979 Leon Litwack published a book called Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery‚ which featured the poem Slaves No More. This poem was very emotional and touching to me. Litwack expressed his feelings about the abolishment of slavery and some experiences he had being a slave in this poem. I will be explaining what this poem is about‚ what Leon Litwack was trying to say‚ and why I chose this topic to write about. First‚ I will explain my interpretation of what

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    The Slave Community

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    John. W. Blessingame‚ The Slave Community: The Plantation Life in The Antebellum South (Oxford University Press‚ Inc: 1972‚ 1979). John Wesley Blassingame was a scholar‚ historian‚ educator‚ writer‚ and leading pioneer in the study of American slavery. He received a bachelor’s degree at Fort Balley State College in 1969‚ a master’s degree at Howard University in 1961‚ and a doctorate at Yale University in 1971. He then became a history professor at his alma mater in 1974 at Yale University.

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    Slave Ship

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    The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker is a great fiction novel that describes the horrifying experiences of Africans‚ seamen‚ and captains on their journey through the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage marked the water way in the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the Americas. The use of slaves provided a great economy for the European countries due to the fact that these African slaves provided free labor while cultivating sugar cane in the Caribbean and America. Rediker describes the slave migration

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