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SLAVERY

SLAVERY. DEFINITION THE SYSTEM OF OWNING PEOPLE AS SLAVES OR THE CONDITION OF BEING A SLAVE OR OF HAVING TO WORK FOR ANOTHER PERSON. FOCUS ON . . WHAT’S THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY? WHY WERE THEY DESCRIMINATED? WHERE WERE THE SLAVERY FROM?

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SLAVERY

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  1. SLAVERY DEFINITION • THE SYSTEM OF OWNING PEOPLE AS SLAVES OR • THE CONDITION OF BEING A SLAVE OR OF HAVING TO WORK FOR ANOTHER PERSON

  2. FOCUS ON . ....... • WHAT’S THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY? • WHY WERE THEY DESCRIMINATED? • WHERE WERE THE SLAVERY FROM? • WHAT WAS THEIR ROLE FOR THE WHITES? • HOW DID THEY LIVED AND THEIR FAMILY RELATIONSHIP? • HOW IS IT REPRESENTED IN “ BELOVED”? • SIMILARITIES & DIFFERENCES. • WHEN DID IT STARTED TO BE ABOLISHED? • WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE MEETINGS AGAINST SLAVERY? • UNDERGROUND RAILROUD • CONCLUSION.

  3. WHAT’S THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY? • ALMOST A CENTURY BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF U.S IN 1776 • THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY, VIRGINIA. 1619. A CARGO OF 20 SLAVES FROM A DUTCH SLAVE FOR FOOD • THE COLONY OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE NORTH AMERICA ( RICH PEOPLE FROM EUROPE).

  4. THE FIRST CARGO OF SLAVES.

  5. WHY WERE THEY DISCRIMINATED? • NO EQUAL POSITION AS WHITE PEOPLE. • NO PRESENT ON THE BIBLE • NO CIVILIZED • WILD PEOPLE

  6. WHERE WERE THE SLAVES FROM? • Nigeria • 24% • Angola • 24% • Ghana • 16% • Senegal/Gambia • 13% • Guinea-Bissau • 11% • Sierra Leone • 6% • Other • 6%

  7. WHAT WAS THEIR ROLE FOR THE WHITES? • LABOUR FORCE. WORKING IN THE PLANTATION. • SERVANTS. • DOING THE HARDEST WORK. • DIDN’T NEED TO MUCH TO SURVIVE.

  8. TRADE SLAVERY. • VERY IMPORTANT ROLE ON THE ENRICHMENT OF A LOTS OF TRADERS. • JUST AS ANIMAL • SLAVERY BECAME AN INSTITUTION ALSO

  9. Price, Birch, & Company Slave PenDuke St., Alexandria, Virginia (William Pywell, 1863; LOC) Before the war a child would sell for about $50.00, a man at $1,000-$1,800 and a woman from $500 to $1,500.00

  10. HOW DID THEY LIVED AND THEIR FAMILY RELATIONSHIP? • In earlier times enjoyed social and individual rights - like marriage, freedom to raise a family, speak their language and worship their gods, rights which were denied the African slaves exported to the Americas. Africans captured and taken into the new world were stripped of all their personality and humanity - they could not even bear their own names.

  11. FAMILY RELATIONSHIP THEIR FAMILIES WERE DESTROYED. THEY LIVED AND WORKED FAR AWAY THEIR CHILDREN WERE TAKEN AWAY THEY DIED ALONE

  12. SLAVERY IN BELOVED DIFFICULT LIFE • SEPARETED FAMILY • DISCRIMINATED AND INJURED • FORCED TO DO THE THE WORST TO THEIR CHILDREN • HAVING NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

  13. REAL LIFE SLAVERY and BELOVED similaritis differences No differences This is the embodiment of the real life that slaves had suffered for centuries BELOVED a real story from a slave women who had suffered the same as Sethe • Difficult life • No family • No hope for the future • Discriminated • Injured • Hard working

  14. ABOLISHMENT OF SLAVERY • "Anti-Slavery Meetings!" 1850. This anti-slavery broadside was produced by abolitionists in salem ohio • The underground railrod; simbol of freedom. • They fought against the institution of slavery by organizing meetings and printing and distributing leaflets, pamphlets, newspapers, and books on the evils of slavery

  15. WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE MEETINGS AGAINST SLAVERY? • LOW CLASSES OF THE SOCIET • ( white and black ones ; they also entendet rights for themselves; industrial revolution; • SLAVES THEMSELVES

  16. UNDERGROUND RAILROUD • SYMBOL OF FREEDOM • THE ONLY WAY FROM SLAVERY TO FREDOOM • THE MAIN SYMBOL “ THE QUILT”( AN INDICATOR OF A SAFE PLACE) BUT NO REAL PROVES FOR ITS EXISTENCE • STILL VERY IMPORTANT SYMBOL

  17. CONCLUSION • SOME EXPRESSIONS THAT SLAVES USED DURING THEIR ESCAPE IN THE UNDERGROUNG RAILROUD. • A day, an hour, of virtuous Liberty, is worth an age of Servitude" • "All men are born free & equal."

  18.  THANK YOU.....

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