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    African Slave Trade The transatlantic slave trade occupies a special place in the universal history of slavery for many reasons. One of them are the duration of the slave tradery and ofcourse it’s massive amount of victims - black men and women and even no mercy for the children. When first mentioned‚ this subject brings up a horrifying picture of white men torturing and forceing africans to obey their will and to be quite frankly‚ at first‚ i was embarrased of my skincolor. But the things

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    Triangular slave trade played a key role in the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. If not for the slave trade‚ the Industrial revolution might have been delayed or never taken place. During the 18th century‚ Britain experienced huge industrial development. Due to this development‚ Britain became one of the wealthiest countries in the world. In this time period Britain was involved with the slave trade more than any other European country. Many people in Britain became wealthy from the slave trade

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    The slave trade was present in America even before its official founding‚ dating back to the Spanish Conquistadors in Caribbean and Florida during the early late 1400s and early 1500s. From the beginning of European settlement of the Americas slaves were used to manage crops and preform menial labor while being treated worse than the animals owned by the fame person. The slave trade grew with time‚ especially in the South where large farms were reliant on slaves to produce the crops. Despite attempts

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    Faith of A Historian

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    Faith of a Historian By Samuel Eliot Morison To you‚ fellow members‚ who have honored me by election to your presidency this year‚ I feel that I owe a sort of apologia pro vita mea‚ a statement of the beliefs and principles that have guided my teaching and writing during the thirty-eight years since my first article was published in the American Historical Review. I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer. Very early in my professional career I observed a certain frustration in a

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    Atlantic Computers As Jason Jowers‚ product manager at Atlantic Computers‚ I am responsible for developing the pricing strategy of the new Atlantic Bundle. Atlantic Computers is a large manufacturer of servers and other high tech products. In our server industry‚ there are two main market segments and until now our company has only focused on one. The largest market segment is devoted to the high performance servers that traditionally are meant to run complex application such as scientific

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    The political and economic reasons behind the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade Like most historical arguments‚ there is much controversy about the reasons for the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade and the subsequent progressive abolition of the slave system itself in the New World . Some have argued that in Britain‚ it was the power of the moral/Christian arguments presented by the abolitionist movement‚ led by the great parliamentarian‚ William Wilberforce. Others have pointed to the international

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    just about a decade before that professional baseball had been rocked with the color barrier being erased by Jackie Robinson. But O’Ree’s NHL milestone‚ the writer observed: He was greeted with no emotion‚ no applause and above all no animosity” QUOTE FROM O’REE Learning to play hockey as a two-year old and using blades to make his way to school on icy shoulders of roads in Fredericton. An NBA kid could have been born purple with a

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    Historian as curandera

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    Historian as curandera Abstract History is story we tell ourselves as Khalil Gibran Muhamad defined it ‚ or Story we tell ourselves about how past explains our present and the way story is told is shaped by contemporary needs as Aurora Levnis Morales nicely put it. Likewise it could be stated that we become stories we tell ourselves. Thus‚ history has role in construction of our identity. Given the importance of the story for us‚ could it be different story then the one we are told in mainstream

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    Public Historians

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    For my final assignment‚ I chose to expand on forum number five‚ which talked about Public Historians and recording popular culture. This thread features some great discussions and points mentioned in class and in the discussion board‚ which I would like to bring light to in this paper. It is not only our job as Historians/Public Historians to evaluate and interpret the world around us and change over time. Recording history has become almost effortless‚ since everything is digital‚ making a single

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    Over the course of more than three and a half centuries‚ the transportation of at least twelve million men‚ women‚ and children from their African homelands to the Americas changed forever the face and character of the modern world. The slave trade was brutal and horrific‚ and the enslavement of Africans was cruel‚ exploitative‚ and dehumanizing.Together‚ they represent one of the longest and most sustained assaults on the very life‚ integrity‚ and dignity of human beings in history. In the Americas

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