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? 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.

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).

THE FIRST CARGO OF SLAVES.

WHY WERE THEY DISCRIMINATED? NO EQUAL POSITION AS WHITE

PEOPLE. NO PRESENT ON THE BIBLE NO CIVILIZED WILD PEOPLE

WHERE WERE THE SLAVES FROM?

Nigeria24%Angola24% Ghana 16% Senegal/Gambia 13% Guinea-Bissau 11% Sierra Leone 6% Other 6%

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.

TRADE SLAVERY.

VERY IMPORTANT ROLE ON THE ENRICHMENT OF A LOTS OF TRADERS.

JUST AS ANIMAL SLAVERY BECAME AN INSTITUTION

ALSO

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

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.

FAMILY RELATIONSHIP

THEIR FAMILIES WERE DESTROYED.

THEY LIVED AND WORKED FAR AWAY

THEIR CHILDREN WERE TAKEN AWAY

THEY DIED ALONE

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

REAL LIFE SLAVERY and BELOVEDSIMILARITIS

Difficult life No family No hope for the future Discriminated Injured Hard working

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

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

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

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

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."

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