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    on all of his voyages. (Questions 3–5) Vessel Name Year Arrived with Slaves Principal Region of Slave Purchase Principal Region of Slave Landing Duke of Argyle 1751 Windward Coast Antigua African 1753 Winward Coast St Kitts African 1754 Sierra Leone St. Kitts With the information provided‚ complete the following chart: (Hint: the Summary Statistics tab will make this easier) Number of Voyages Number of Slaves Embarked Number of Slaves Disembarked Percentage who died on voyage Length of

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    Dave Dilebre Composition I Professor gould February 18‚ 2014 Review of “Amistad” by Sally Hadden summary Amistad begins with the event that made the ships history different from other slave ships. Cinque also known as Sengbe feed himself and his fellow slaves. They overthrew the ships crew killing all the spanish sailors but two in order to sail back to africa. The two men that were left of the crew managed to trick their new found captors and sail to new york. The initial trial

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    A Long Way From False Child soldiers often have a hard time returning to a normal life after war. Ishmael Beah‚ however‚ showed that he can do it and so can others. He lost his entire family in Sierra Leone’s civil war and the government recruited him as a soldier in his early teens and went on to write his memoir about it‚ A Long Way Gone. As hard as it was for him to go through and relive these memories to write his story‚ people still question the memoir’s validity. Despite what many articles

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    Savanna The African Savanna biome is a tropical grassland in Africa between latitude 15° North and 30 degrees S and longitude 15 degrees W and 40° West. It covers Guinea‚ Sierra Leone‚ Liberia‚ Cote D’ivore‚ Ghana‚ Togo‚ Benin‚ Nigeria‚ Cameroon‚ Central African Republic‚ Chad‚ Sudan‚ Ethiopia‚ Somalia‚ and the Democratic Republic of the Congo‚ Angola‚ Uganda‚ Rwanda‚ Burundi‚ Kenya‚ Tanzania‚ Malawi‚ Zambia‚ Zimbabwe‚ Mozambique‚ Botswana‚ and South Africa. Around 2 million large plant-eating

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    cross the bridge the man trusting the kid with weapon and winds up getting shot or when the kids was seen carrying weapons bigger than themselves. The movie also focuses on the blood that is spread to receive a diamond. The main cause of war in Sierra Leone. The book barely sheds light on the root of the war. The upside of this is the viewer can comprehend the challenges and mentality of the character. The advantage of this is that the viewer can understand the difficulties and mindset of the character

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    Fisherman Dia Vandy (see me no more) Jassie Vandy – Solomon’s Wife Captain Poison Benjamin Kapanay M’Ed Ambassador Walker Diamond Traders Diamond Traders Rudolf Van De Kaap Rupert Simmonds SETTING Sierra Leone 1996-1999 Civil War THEMES R.U.F (Revolutionary United Front) T.I.A (This is Africa) SCENE 1 Early Morning Solomon with his son Dia telling him to go to school so one day he can become a doctor instead of a fisherman like his Dad. SCENE

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    of becoming slaves. As a solution‚ the Back to Africa movement was sparked‚ encouraging those with African descent to return the African homeland. The British government offered the settlers in mainly Nova Scotia‚ a free passage from Halifax to Sierra Leone‚ and almost half of the only substantial Black community in Canada left. It wasn’t until after the abolishment of slavery in 1833 and the passing of the Act of to limit slavery (the British colony’s first legislation to restrict the slave trade)

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    Contents Introduction.......................................................................................................................................... 3 Article 42 of UN Charter................................................................................................................... 4 1) The UN Charter as matrix of Art.42...........................................................................................4 2) Authorising the use of force............

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    Revolutionary War helped to bring an end to slavery (in the North) although it remained legal there for some time.” (The American Journey Ch.6‚ Pg.162). Some blacks left with the British at the end of the war‚ settling in the West Indies‚ Canada‚ and Sierra Leone.

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    The theme Loss of Innocence was illustrated in the memoir. Evidently‚ as Ishmael Beah became a child soldier‚ his story would present a loss of innocence. The hardships and violence of war had been given in the perspective of a child‚ as Beah describes his experiences simply and without judgement. The Rebel attacks on his village and neighboring villages may have traumatized Beah but however‚ not have caused him to lose his innocence. He maintains it by pondering over old childhood memories and

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