My black is beautiful the Middle passage series

1. My black is beautifulthe Middle passage series A exploration of what African Americans endured; how slaver y& genocide impacted the African community & the heroic roles African women played in this history!!

2. Know who you are

3. slavery • Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work.[1] Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation. • Historically, slavery was institutionally recognized by most societies; in more recent times, slavery has been outlawed in all countries, but it continues through the practices of debt bondage, indentured servitude, serfdom, domestic servants kept in captivity, certain adoptions in which children are forced to work as slaves, child soldiers, and forced marriage.[2] • Slavery is officially illegal in all countries, but there are still an estimated 20 million to 30 million slaves worldwide.[3][4]Mauritania was the last jurisdiction to officially outlaw slavery (in 1981/2007), but about 10% to 20% of its population is estimated to live in slavery.[5][6] • Slavery predates written records and has existed in many cultures.[7] Most slaves today are debt slaves, largely in South Asia, who are under debt bondage incurred by lenders, sometimes even for generations.[8]Human trafficking is primarily used for forcing women and children into sex industries.[9]

4. genocide • Genocide is "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group",[1]though what constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars • Genocide loosely defined as: "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."[4]

5. The middle passage • The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa[1][citation needed]were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods, which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans, who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves; the slaves were then sold or traded for raw materials,[2] which would be transported back to Europe to complete the voyage. Voyages on the Middle Passage were a large financial undertaking, and they were generally organized by companies or groups of investors rather than individuals.[3] • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5qZ1MpevrI

6. DocumentaryPhotography

7. lynching • Lynching is murder by mob, often by hanging, but also by burning at the stake or shooting, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate, control, or otherwise manipulate a specific sector of a population. http://henriettavintondavis.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/black-women-who-were-lynched-in-america/

8. Strange fruit • Eighty years ago, two young African-American men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, were lynched in the town center of Marion, Ind. The night before, on Aug. 6, 1930, they had been arrested and charged with the armed robbery and murder of a white factory worker, Claude Deeter, and the rape of his companion, Mary Ball. • That evening, local police were unable to stop a mob of thousands from breaking into the jail with sledgehammers and crowbars to pull the young men out of their cells and lynch them. • News of the lynching spread across the world. Local photographer Lawrence Beitler took what would become the most iconic photograph of lynching in America. The photograph shows two bodies hanging from a tree surrounded by a crowd of ordinary citizens, including women and children. Thousands of copies were made and sold. The photograph helped inspire the poem and song "Strange Fruit" written by Abel Meeropol — and performed around the world by Billie Holiday.

9. Great African leaders

10. African Inventions http://www.blackinventions101.com/inventionslist.html

11. Black in America http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWcs7YsZVuY

12. Pretty hurts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPwuduhx0vw

13. Discussion questions How do you believe slavery impacted the Africa American community? What did you learn that you didn’t know before? What roles did women play in African History, how does that empower you? What emotion (s) did you feel when learning about genocide, slavery the middle passage & lynching??