Slavery

The North and states from the South disagreed on the question of slavery What is slavery?  African slaves were sold to European, who transported slaves to America… The Civil War (1849–1865)    States from the South used slaves to work in the fields States from the North refused it They started a terrible war The Civil War (1849–1865) The Civil War (1849–1865)   The North States were the winner Slavery was abolished The Reconstruction (1865–1918)   After

The American history is marked by a peculiar institution, that is slavery (1861-1865) Slavery was abolished at the end of the civil war by Lincoln by 13th amendments of December 1865. Slavery was abolished but segregation remained. Segregation - separation of black and white people and lack of rights for the black population. In the south segregation was implemented (appliqués) by the “Jim Crow laws” (1880-1890). “JC laws” separated blacks and whites in schools and the public places (schools,

Who can stop Toni Morrison? TONI MORRISON, 78 years old, alias Chloe Anthony Wolford, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature, returns to the issue of slavery in her new novel: A Mercy. Novelist, literature professor and American editor, Toni Morrison is the first black woman and finally the one afro-American author to win this prize. As an editor, Morrison played an important role in bringing black literature into the mainstream. For example, she edited books by authors such as Toni Cade

fugitive slave law→ you can catch a slave that is fleeing → remitter à la police → création de slaves catchers1807 → abolition du commerce d’(exclavesChronology → PP→ actions pour et contreNat Turenr’s rebellion→ dev l’idée de liberté New England Anti Slavery Society→ help le dev de publications 2nd fugitives law→ chase in free states is allowed → complexifie l’emancipationCivil War → reconstruction → ségrégationMason Dixon Line→ divise le pays → choix basé sur économie → Sud → cottonNumbers → slaves

allowed us today to benefit from a better society which supposedly practices “equal rights”. Even before the civil rights movement black people helped in making the world a better place. Harriet Tubman was born a slave; she eventually escaped slavery and helped hundreds of southern American slaves escape to the north of America and Canada through the Underground Railroad. Mary Ann Shadd was born in 1823 she became the first black lawyer in North America. She was one of the fist people to push

recherche des chiffres définitifs de la traite atlantique est donc un objectif presque dérisoire face à cette tragédie vécue par les victimes de ce commerce des hommes. Comme le dit P. Manning, et avant tout: « slavery was a sacrifice of Africans for the transfonnation of a wider world, and slavery was a tragedy for the people of Africa ». Une fréquentation des sources relatives à une partie de cette traite - la traite française du XVIIIèrre siècle que je vais évoquer ici - rend le chercheur très modeste:

La présence portugaise et la traite des esclaves 1) Description de la carteSur la carte, vous pouvez voir 3 grands continents : l'Europe, l'Afrique, l'Amérique du Nord et du Sud. En outre, il est possible de voir l'Arabie. Sur le continent européen, les villes suivantes se distinguent particulièrement : Liverpool, Bristol, Lisbonne, Constantinople. Sur le continent africain, nous trouvons : Luanda, Benguela en Angola, Luango, Windwards Coast, Sierra Leone, Sénégambie, Arguin

slaughtered by the immigrants. b) “Sold, stolen, arriving on a nightmare Praying for a dream” refers to the slavery and the conditions in which african slaves “You the Ashanti, the Yoruba, the Kru” lived in. c) The three stanzas present the european immigrants as responsible for this inglorious past “Other seekers”. So the three first stanzas deal with the inglorious history of the US (immigration, slavery, and murders) and create a strong contrast with the rest of the poem, full of hope and happiness.

ordered all Jews out of France's colonies, forbade the exercise of any religion other than Roman Catholicism, restricted the activities of free Negroes and defined the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire. The code has been described by Tyler Stovall as, "one of the most extensive official documents on race, slavery, and freedom ever drawn up in Europe."[1] Context Louis XIV wanted to increase his power in the colonies. The Code Noir was one of the many laws inspired by Colbert. At that

democracy. 1783 -- Massachusetts outlaws slavery within its borders. 1808 -- Importation of slaves banned; illegal slave trade continues. 1831 -- Nat Turner leads slave rebellion in Virginia; 57 whites killed; U.S. troops kill 100 slaves; Turner caught, tried and hanged. 1833 -- Oberlin College, first U.S. college to adopt co-education, is first to refuse to ban black students. 1850 -- Compromise of 1850 admits California into the union without slavery, strengthens Fugitive Slave Laws, and ends