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HISTORY
TIMELINE
Timeline of Atlantic Slave Trade events from 1619 to 1865.
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A DAY IN THE LIFE DURING ...
THE TRANSATLANTIC
SLAVE
by Jacquelin Cangro
Meet Abayomi Saleem from the kingdom of Benin as he is captured
for the slave trade as he makes the journey from Africa to the
Caribbean.
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TRIANGLE OF TRADE: BUILDING A GLOBAL ECONOMY
Deborah Bryson
Six hundred years ago, daring sailors set off on voyages of
exploration around the globe. Ships brought back exotic products
and created new markets for goods. Fortunes could be made overnight,
but someone had to do the dangerous and difficult labor required
to grow and manufacture new products. Europeans discovered
a source of labor on the continent of Africa. Let’s look
back to a time when human life was viewed as merchandise in
the search to build a global economy.
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CAPE COAST CASTLE
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Holly Lynn Anderson
Cape Coast Castle served as the headquarters for the British
African slave trade for almost two hundred years from 1664
to 1807. During those years, three million men, women, and
children passed through the castle headed toward lives of slavery – learn
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TOUCHING HISTORY: THE STORY OF THE HENRIETTA MARIE
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Rebekah Roberts
Where would you look for information about the slave trade
of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Historians often
use newspapers, letters, legal records, and artifacts or
relics of the times. In the story inside, a fictitious teen
named Sam takes us along on his tour of relics from the English
slave ship Henrietta Marie, which sank off the coast of Florida
in 1700 on the return trip to England after delivering slaves
from Africa to the New World. The Interesting Narrative of the
Life of Olaudah Equiano. |
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OLAUDAH EQUIANO: A LIFE IN SLAVERY AND FREEDOM
G.J. Hamel
Olaudah Equiano knew a lot about slavery. In his long life,
he was a slave, a trafficker of slaves, and an antislavery
activist. Among other things, he was also a laborer, a clerk,
a sailor, and an explorer. Learn a bit about his adventures
he detailed in his autobiography,
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SOULS FOR SALE: THE SLAVE AUCTIONS
Susan Miskelly
For the ten to eleven million slaves who were brought across
the Atlantic from Africa to the United States, crossing the
ocean was only the beginning of a long and difficult journey.
Once they arrived in America, they were prepared to be sold
at one of the slave markets up and down the southern and Gulf
coasts. Find out more about these markets in human beings.
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THROUGH THE EYES F PHILLIS WHEATLEY
Lauren Tunnell Verdeyen
In July of 1761, a seven-year-old girl stood on a Boston auction
block. Dirty, thin, and sickly, she wore nothing but a worn
old carpet and an expression of confusion and fear. Read how
this young girl later would gain fame through her poems that
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MOLASSES TO RUM TO SLAVES
Steve Carper
Learn how the demand for sugar and rum along with the quest
for profit became the driving engine behind the Atlantic slave
trade.
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THE U.S. SLAVE CODES
Frank Emerson
It all started with a judicial ruling in 1630. From that point
on, statutes and judicial rulings regarding black and white
relations were passed and enacted as slave owners and governors
saw fit. As indentured servants became fewer, the number
of slaves increased and so did the rules and regulations
that governed a slave’s life – learn how restricted
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SEEK YE THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
Mac Carey
Read about a rebellion in 1828 led by a charismatic religious
slave that ended up with fifty-seven white people dead, including
women and children, sending a wave of panic sweeping across
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THE MANY PURPOSES OF SLAVE SONGS
Sumei Fitzgerald
Slave songs had many purposes: expressing emotion, giving hope,
helping work go faster, and conveying important messages – learn
which songs did what and the influence this long ago music
has on today’s popular songs.
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ELIJAH LOVEJOY: SPEAKING OUT FOR FREEDOM
Jennifer Phillips
Learn about Elijah Lovejoy, an intensely religious man with
a calm nature whose fiery use of words was designed to shake
up current thinking about slavery and free speech whose death
fueled a national abolitionist movement to free slaves.
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JOSIAH HENSON, THE SLAVE WHO INSPIRED A BESTSELLER
Juliet Haines Mofford
The slave narrative The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly
a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself inspired
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 best seller Uncle
Tom’s Cabin – learn about the man who had inspired
her.
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HARRIET TUBMAN AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Kassandra Radomski
While other people are known for their work with the Underground
Railroad, Harriet Tubman is certainly the most prominent woman.
Discover the woman who after fleeing slavery in 1849, spent
the 1850s bringing family members and numerous other slaves
to freedom with the help of the Underground Railroad.
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ENDING THE SLAVE TRADE
James Sutherland
Learn about the role of the British and U.S. Africa Squadron’s
role in enforcing anti-slavery laws on the high seas. |
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THE DRED SCOTT DECISION
Barbara Diggs
On March 6, 1857, an unusually large crowd of journalists and other spectators crammed inside the Washington, D.C., courtroom where the U.S. Supreme Court would soon issue its decision in the case of Dred Scott v.Sandford. Many were hoping that the decision would answer a constitutional question that had plagued the nation for decades: Did the federal government have the power to limit the spread of slavery in Western territories?. |
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