Wednesday, April 9, 2008
(Baylee's) Response to 'The Glory Field'
(By Baylee L)
From 1750 to 1994, the Lewis's struggled with being an African American family living in South Carolina. They're first ancestor was shackled and thrown in a boat with thousands of other captives, and through time the loveable family saw slavery, tasted freedom, and lived through victory and triumph. Walter Dean Myers captured the amazing story of the Lewis family in The Glory Field through the eyes of some of the greatest, bravest, most relatable Lewis's.
The Glory Field was an amazing book, with touching insight and little details that make your heart break. You really feel as though you're beside the character, sharing their experience- you can imagine yourself running from the hounds with Lizzy and Lem, or paddling the little 'Pele Queen' through the vicious waves, squished between Elijah and Abbey. I would read this book over and over again.
My favourite parts in The Glory Field are Elijah's and Malcom's. I love Elijah's character because he is so tenacious and determined, nothing will get in his way. "We aint going unless we get thirty-five dollars," Elijah said. "Cash money." (Pg. 101) I also love Malcom's character, because he was incredibly brave and tolerant to take Shep all the way to Curry Island. He went on an amazing, life changing journey. He, Malcom, was exploring what it meant to be black. Shep was giving him another definition. (Pg. 343) Both these characters were so inspiring.
The only thing I would change about the book is I'd add some sad endings. It's all happily-ever-after for all the characters, but I think it would be even stronger if there wasnt a so-happy ending. I know its hard to do that to a character, but I think it would move the reader even more.
I love The Glory Field and would recommend it to everyone and anyone. I think the author did a great job of making his point. "Those shackles didnt rob us of being black, son, they robbed us of being human." (back cover). This is the best book ever!!!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
2 civil rights key events (Will)
2 Civil Rights Key Events (Will)
1: Two students from a university sat in a lunch counter and was refused service, but they start a sit in and refused to leave.
2: An African-American named Rosa Parks sat down in the colored section of a bus and refused to give up her spot to a white person, and this therefore started a boycott in that area.
1: Two students from a university sat in a lunch counter and was refused service, but they start a sit in and refused to leave.
2: An African-American named Rosa Parks sat down in the colored section of a bus and refused to give up her spot to a white person, and this therefore started a boycott in that area.
2 civil rights key events (Will)
2 Civil Rights Key Events (Will)
1: Two students from a university sat in a lunch counter and was refused service, but they start a sit in and refused to leave.
2: An African-American named Rosa Parks sat down in the colored section of a bus and refused to give up her spot to a white person, and this therefore started a boycott in that area.
1: Two students from a university sat in a lunch counter and was refused service, but they start a sit in and refused to leave.
2: An African-American named Rosa Parks sat down in the colored section of a bus and refused to give up her spot to a white person, and this therefore started a boycott in that area.
2 civil rights key events (Will)
2 Civil Rights Key Events (Will)
1: Two students from a university sat in a lunch counter and was refused service, but they start a sit in and refused to leave.
2: An African-American named Rosa Parks sat down in the colored section of a bus and refused to give up her spot to a white person, and this therefore started a boycott in that area.
1: Two students from a university sat in a lunch counter and was refused service, but they start a sit in and refused to leave.
2: An African-American named Rosa Parks sat down in the colored section of a bus and refused to give up her spot to a white person, and this therefore started a boycott in that area.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Emmet Till poll opinion (will)
i agree because then that made history and alot of people where touched by this boy's story. It inspired these people to start sit ins, and was a big boost for the civil rights movement.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
I disagree(Emitt Till)
I disagree because after that case, maybe, they feel they don't have any power. Maybe they will be become too afraid. I think most of them don't want to die like Emitt Till.
Emmitt Louis Till Poll, Opinion-Louis
I agree because these whites had to know what they have done to this black boy because of only different color
Emmitt Till Louis Opinion-Louis
I was very infurriated to white people who murdered a black boy after I watched this movie. The difference between blacks and whites is only color ,no difference. I think these people in movie who murdered this boy is a not person because people can't do that terrible thing to another human being. Only because a black boy touched whites, whites tortured and murdered that boy. I feel good to black boy's mom because she showed how these whites treated this black because only the colr is different. I think because she showed that to whoe world how black is treated, whites began to feel immoral to treat black like that. I felt even proud of this black mom.
Emitt Till: Opinion... Jinu
I really didn't enjoy Emitt Till movie because it was so terrible, even it made me close my eyes. When it shows Emitt Till's face, I was almost shocked. He lost his 1 eye, other on his cheek, chopped head... it was disgusting and it was tragic. I can not believe that people (who killed Emitt Till) could done that kind of thing. I also can not believe that people's face can be changed like that. I can not understand what's so good with whites.(This is just my opinion but if there is segregation, whites should be segregated by blacks.) In my opinion, this case was one of the most important thing in the black's history.
Emitt Till 2 facts...Jinu...
1.Washington,D.C. About 200,000 people join the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King dilivers his famous "I Have a Dream"speech.
2.On August 20th 1955, Marnie Till-Bradley of Chicago puts her only child, 14-year old, black Chkcago youth, Emmett Louis Till on a train to visit relatives Money, Mississippi. In a week's time, Emmett is adbucted from his great-unclehome, tortured and murdered for whisting at a white woman in public. Two men, Roy Bryant and J.W.Milarn would confess to the murder to reporter, William Bradford Huie for $4,000. 'Double Jeopardy Rule,' prevented them from being tried again.
2.On August 20th 1955, Marnie Till-Bradley of Chicago puts her only child, 14-year old, black Chkcago youth, Emmett Louis Till on a train to visit relatives Money, Mississippi. In a week's time, Emmett is adbucted from his great-unclehome, tortured and murdered for whisting at a white woman in public. Two men, Roy Bryant and J.W.Milarn would confess to the murder to reporter, William Bradford Huie for $4,000. 'Double Jeopardy Rule,' prevented them from being tried again.
emmett till
i chose "i agree" because i think that the world should have seen the body of this boy and how disfigured his body was a very sad story......
SANDER
SANDER
Emmett Louis Till Opinion
When I heard gina said "Jim Crow Law is real famous and most block people and white people knows him", I didn't have actual feeling. But, when I saw this movie, I had a actual feeling.
Helena
Helena
Emmet Till Opinion
I agree with the open cast funeral.
Just because Emmet whistled at a white women, doesn't mean he should die for it. This open cast funeral showed everyone what people would do just because of segregation. The image of the 14 year old boy was horrible. The two men overkilled him, and everyone should see the concequenses of such unfair actions. I dont see how these two mean could live with themselves.
Just because Emmet whistled at a white women, doesn't mean he should die for it. This open cast funeral showed everyone what people would do just because of segregation. The image of the 14 year old boy was horrible. The two men overkilled him, and everyone should see the concequenses of such unfair actions. I dont see how these two mean could live with themselves.
2 Civil Right Key Events -Thomas-
(Little Rock,Ark.) Formerly all-white central high schools learns that integration is easier said then done. Nine black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower send federal troops and the national Guard to intervene on behalf of the students, who become known as "The Little Rock Nine"
It must have been very hard for these 9 students because they were the only 9 black students in the all white high school. They weren't even let inside. I wonder what the teachers were doing. I would have tryed to find a way to help them.
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Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He writes his seminal "Letter from Birmingham Jail" arguing that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust laws.
Martin Luther King was a brilliant man, he had the "I have a Dream" Speech, which he had 200,000 people listen to. The fact that he would get thrown into jail for trying to stop Segretgation shows how hard it would be to make things better. He had helped many people.
It must have been very hard for these 9 students because they were the only 9 black students in the all white high school. They weren't even let inside. I wonder what the teachers were doing. I would have tryed to find a way to help them.
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Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He writes his seminal "Letter from Birmingham Jail" arguing that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust laws.
Martin Luther King was a brilliant man, he had the "I have a Dream" Speech, which he had 200,000 people listen to. The fact that he would get thrown into jail for trying to stop Segretgation shows how hard it would be to make things better. He had helped many people.
Thomas' 2 Jim Crow Laws
LIBRARIES
Texas: Negroes are to be served through a separate branch or branches of the county free library, which shall be administered by a custodian of the negro race under the supervision of the county librarian.
I believe everyone should have the right to read and get books anywhere they want.
Education is the most important thing in a person's life.
HEALTH CARE
Mississippi: There shall be maintained by the governing authorities of every hospital maintained by the state for treatment of white and colored patients separate entrances for white and colored patients and visitors, and such entrances shall be used by the race only for which they are prepared.
It seems so unfair to me that a person's color of skin would affect the quality of the medical care they recieve. Segregation was a big part of the past, but everyone should be able to go though any door they liked if it was for their health.
Texas: Negroes are to be served through a separate branch or branches of the county free library, which shall be administered by a custodian of the negro race under the supervision of the county librarian.
I believe everyone should have the right to read and get books anywhere they want.
Education is the most important thing in a person's life.
HEALTH CARE
Mississippi: There shall be maintained by the governing authorities of every hospital maintained by the state for treatment of white and colored patients separate entrances for white and colored patients and visitors, and such entrances shall be used by the race only for which they are prepared.
It seems so unfair to me that a person's color of skin would affect the quality of the medical care they recieve. Segregation was a big part of the past, but everyone should be able to go though any door they liked if it was for their health.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
2 Jim Crow Laws ~Robyn
Marraige:
Florida: Any negro man and white woman, or any white man and negro woman, who are not married to each other, who habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room, shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding 12 months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
Services:
Georgia: No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls.
Florida: Any negro man and white woman, or any white man and negro woman, who are not married to each other, who habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room, shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding 12 months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
Services:
Georgia: No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls.
Jinu
In 'The Long Walk Home', starring Sissy Spacek and Whoppi Goldberg, the bus part affected me by hitting and chasing black. When a black woman rode the bus, whites bothered her. When she got off the bus, whites followed her and hit her. Her brother tried to help his sister but whites kicked him and punched him. I felt terrible when white kicked the black's brother. Should they kick that little child? In my opinion, whites don't have right to kick or hit blacks.
Emmitt Till Louis Movie
This movie is very good movie to learn how strong was Jim Crow Laws.
Also, it helps to have bad dream because it has some terrible story.
If you are brave, watch it!
If you are timid, don't watch it!
To me, I am timid
Also, it helps to have bad dream because it has some terrible story.
If you are brave, watch it!
If you are timid, don't watch it!
To me, I am timid
Emmit (kitty kait)
Emitt's mom showed her son's dead and torcherd body to public. Wich I agree with because It shows what whites can do to blacks.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Opinion for the movie
That movie made me horrible. Because when they explane like the black person's one side of eye is missing, and another side's eye is on his cheek, like that, I thought that white people is so crazy and I hate that person. I think the white peoples are sacrifice, so we can live very well.
Helena
Helena
2 Civil Rights key events from Emmitt Louis Till Time Line.
1.The 1957 Civil Rights Bill aimed to ensure that all African Americans couold exersize they're right to vote. It wanted a new division (Civil Rights Division) within the federal Justice Department to monitor civil rights abuses. The Civil Rights act of 1957 was inspired by the murder of Emmet Louis Till.
2. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since reconstuction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discriminationof all kinds based on race, colour, religion or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.
Helena
2. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since reconstuction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discriminationof all kinds based on race, colour, religion or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.
Helena
2 Civil Rights key events from Emmitt Louis Till Time Line.
1.The 1957 Civil Rights Bill aimed to ensure that all African Americans couold exersize they're right to vote. It wanted a new division (Civil Rights Division) within the federal Justice Department to monitor civil rights abuses. The Civil Rights act of 1957 was inspired by the murder of Emmet Louis Till.
2. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since reconstuction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discriminationof all kinds based on race, colour, religion or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.
Helena
2. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since reconstuction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discriminationof all kinds based on race, colour, religion or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.
Helena
What kind of man was Muhummad Bilal?
I chose survivor because in slave ship, it will bw like so yuck, and I think it will be like a hell to slave. They give a little tiny bit of food and little tinny bit of water. Even white man is whipping them. But, Muhammud was alive, so, I chose survivor.
Helena
Helena
A Long Walk Home-Louis
I was impressed by black people because if there is something really they want, they tried to get it in a peaceful way, not with force. If they desire for something, even though it is hard, they first put into action, not just talk. It is very hard not to ride buses, but they put into practice. They cooperated each other. Also i was impressed by that white girl because in that time all whithes hated blacks, but she helped blacks. She didn't care what whites think, but she did a right thing. Once again, I was really impressed that blacks always not use force to get something, but they use peoceful ways.
louis
louis
Emmitt Louis Till Opinion
This movie is very good movie to learn how strong was Jim Crow Laws.
Also, it helps to have bad dream because it has some terrible story.
If you are brave, watch it!
If you are timid, don't watch it!
To me, I am a timid.
Also, it helps to have bad dream because it has some terrible story.
If you are brave, watch it!
If you are timid, don't watch it!
To me, I am a timid.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Do you think that Emmet Louis Till's mother was right to have an open casket public funeral? - Shauna
I think she was right to having an open casket public funeral. This is because to show him how looks like just what happen to him. But it was so terrible and sad. However I also think to right to have an open casket to the two men who were killed him.
2 Civil Rights Key Events - Shauna
1. Civil Rights Act of 1957. The 1957 Civil Rights Act is passed during the Eisenhower administration starting the civil rights legilative programme that was to include the 1964 Civil Rights act and the 1964 Voting Rights Act.
The 1957 Civil Rights Bill aimed to ensure that all African Americans couold exersize they're right to vote. It wanted a new division (Civil Rights Division) within the federal Justice Department to monitor civil rights abuses. The Civil Rights act of 1957 was inspired by the murder of Emmet Louis Till.
2. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since reconstuction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discriminationof all kinds based on race, colour, religion or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.
The 1957 Civil Rights Bill aimed to ensure that all African Americans couold exersize they're right to vote. It wanted a new division (Civil Rights Division) within the federal Justice Department to monitor civil rights abuses. The Civil Rights act of 1957 was inspired by the murder of Emmet Louis Till.
2. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since reconstuction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discriminationof all kinds based on race, colour, religion or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.
Emmitt Louis Till opinion about the movie by- Shauna
I think Emmitt Louis Till movie was so so terrible and horrible and sad. I can not imagine this movie! I think his mom was heart-break how can she imagine this happen when she foud out her son and when she saw him. If I was his mother then I will be in a very very bad condition. It makes me so stupid. Just because fo their skin colors...
Opinion for the movie ~Robyn
I thought that the movie was heart-breaking.It was so sad for the mother. If I was her I would've cried and cried.When they showed the picture of what Emmitt Till looked like when he was dead it was horrifying,the mom started explaining what the two white men had done.They cut his head in half when he was dead, the shot him in the head, took both eyeballs out, cut off his tongue, and cut off his ears.It was so gruesome. I felt so sorry for Emmitt's mom. The two white people were so mean. I feel so sorry for what has happened to Emmitt.
What kind of man was Muhammad Bilal? ~Robyn
I chose survivor because he managed to live on a slave ship for a long time.
The ship was full of bad smells, that would make you throw up, you would have people dieing around you, and the white people only fed you once a day and gave you water twice a day. Muhammad was a real survivor. I couldn't have survived that. It would be too smelly, and horrifying.
The ship was full of bad smells, that would make you throw up, you would have people dieing around you, and the white people only fed you once a day and gave you water twice a day. Muhammad was a real survivor. I couldn't have survived that. It would be too smelly, and horrifying.
How did you feel when Lizzy ran away with Joshua and Lem? ~Robyn
I felt scared for Lizzy because I didn't know what was going to happen to her.
But I also felt happy for Lizzy because she faced her fears and ran away. She was brave to run away.
I would've been scared running away because you never know what could happen to you and the people you're running away with. She had a lot of courage.
But I also felt happy for Lizzy because she faced her fears and ran away. She was brave to run away.
I would've been scared running away because you never know what could happen to you and the people you're running away with. She had a lot of courage.
How did Elijah become a man? ~Robyn
I think that Elijah became a man by rescuing little David.
I think that really made Elijah a man because that's a big thing to do. It must've been hard to rescue him.
I think that really made Elijah a man because that's a big thing to do. It must've been hard to rescue him.
Do you think that Emmit Louis Till's mother was right to have an open casket public funeral? ~Robyn
I thought the mother was right to have an open casket funeral because she was showing people what these white people had done, just because he whistled at the white woman.
It must've been heart-breaking to the mom because it was her dead son.
The mom, I think was really brave because it would've been hard to have an open casket funeral.
I would've said no. It would be too hard. I really like the mom for that. She was really brave.
It must've been heart-breaking to the mom because it was her dead son.
The mom, I think was really brave because it would've been hard to have an open casket funeral.
I would've said no. It would be too hard. I really like the mom for that. She was really brave.
Baylee- Timeline
(Greensboro, N.C.) Four black students from North Carolina Agriculture and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to sit at the counter. The event triggers many similar non-violent protests throughout the South. Six months later, the original four protesters are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter. Student sit-ins would be effective throughout the Deep South in integrating parks, swimming pools, theatres, libraries, and other public facilities.
I really liked how they started some non-violent protests- it goes to show that violent methods arent always the most effective.
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(Washington, D.C.) About 200,000 people join the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King delivers his famous, 'I Have a Dream' speech.
That would be amazing to see that speech in person! So many people supported the civil rights movement; 200,000 people!
I really liked how they started some non-violent protests- it goes to show that violent methods arent always the most effective.
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(Washington, D.C.) About 200,000 people join the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King delivers his famous, 'I Have a Dream' speech.
That would be amazing to see that speech in person! So many people supported the civil rights movement; 200,000 people!
Baylee- Opinion on the Emmett Till Movie
I thought the movie was very, very frightening and sad. It made me wish people werent so stupid! It really affected me and made me wish I could do something about all of this racism and idiocy. I couldnt stop talking about it afterwards. How can the murderers live with themselves?
Baylee- I Agree With the Open Casket
I completely agree and support Emmet's mother with her choice to have an open casket funeral. However so unpleasant, the image of this mangled 14 year old boy's body would stick in your mind for a long time- possibly for the rest of your life- when most words are in one ear and out the other. "She made America deal with its ugly racial problem." (quote from the movie)
What I Thought About the Movie-Liana
I felt terrible for Emmet Till. Just because he whistled to a white woman, he got tortured and killed. The way he was killed was horrifying! I wish that white woman wouldn't have told her husband, because then Emmet wouldn't have been killed. I think her husbad just freaked out over the fact that a black person whistled to his wife. I felt really bad for Emmet's parents. They must have felt so sad and angry at the people who were responsible for her son's death. I can't believe the men who killed Emmet had nothing done to them. They weren't even put in jail! Emmet's parents must feel so angry about that. Emmet was just 14 and he was killed for whistling at a white woman.
Do You Think Emmet Till's Mother Should Have Had the Casket Open?-Liana
I think Emmet Till's mother should have had the casket open because it showed tons of people what happened to Emmet just because he whistled to a white woman. Just because he did that, he got tortured and killed. I also think by having the casket open, it showed what two men could do to a 14 year old.
What I thought about the movie (Emmitt Till)-Kellsz.
I think Emmitt's movie was heart-wrentching.
I can't imagine how Emmitt's mother felt when she found out what happened to her son and when she saw him, she must have been a strong person to be so determinded to see her son in very bad condition. It is so sad that Emmitt was over-tortured just because she /wolf/ whislted to a white woman.
I think the person to blame for all this treachery (sp?) is the white woman, if she hadn't just blabbed off to her husband none of this would have happened.
I can't imagine how Emmitt's mother felt when she found out what happened to her son and when she saw him, she must have been a strong person to be so determinded to see her son in very bad condition. It is so sad that Emmitt was over-tortured just because she /wolf/ whislted to a white woman.
I think the person to blame for all this treachery (sp?) is the white woman, if she hadn't just blabbed off to her husband none of this would have happened.
What I though about the movie~Alicia
I think it was horrible the way they treated Emmett Till. I can not believe how much they torchered him from one whisle. I mean the way they torchered him was something you could not even believe was happening. It was horrible. I could not imagine what his parents had to go through. To have to see what kind of things people did to a 14 year old boy back then.
Do you think that Emmet Louis Till's mother was right to have an open casket public funeral??? Alicia
I think it was right to have an open casket public funeral because then everybody could see what horribly stuff the white people did for things like a simple whistle. It makes me feel horrible of what they did to him.
Emmitt Till's poll.- Kellsz
I think that having an open casket public funeral was a sad, but reasonable choice because then all the people going to the open casket funeral would see what a white person was capable of, and what would happen if you whistled to a white person.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
A fact on the civil rights movement. -will
In 1960, four black students sat at a table in a segregated lunch counter. They were not served, but sat down on those seats for the rest of the day. This triggered several other sit-ins as they are called, and nonviolent riots across the 'South'. Six months later the four protestors are served lunch at that same table. This is an example of how perservering the people who were involved in the civil rights act were.
Elijah became a man...... ~Thomas~
I believe Elijah became a man when he saved David. He risked his life for his grandparents and david. He could have gotten lost at sea. "We going to look for him out on the Key"(p.105).
2 Civil Rights Key Events-Liana
1. Civil Rights Act of 1957. The 1957 Civil Rights Act is passed during the Eisenhower administration starting the civil rights legilative programme that was to include the 1964 Civil Rights act and the 1964 Voting Rights Act.
The 1957 Civil Rights Bill aimed to ensure that all African Americans couold exersize they're right to vote. It wanted a new division (Civil Rights Division) within the federal Justice Department to monitor civil rights abuses. The Civil Rights act of 1957 was inspired by the murder of Emmet Louis Till.
2. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since reconstuction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discriminationof all kinds based on race, colour, religion or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.
The 1957 Civil Rights Bill aimed to ensure that all African Americans couold exersize they're right to vote. It wanted a new division (Civil Rights Division) within the federal Justice Department to monitor civil rights abuses. The Civil Rights act of 1957 was inspired by the murder of Emmet Louis Till.
2. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since reconstuction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discriminationof all kinds based on race, colour, religion or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
The summary of 1964, (p.223~p.234) Chapter 2
Tommy and his parents are talking about college. Tommy's mom is nervous he is going to a white college "Remember this, child. You are not white and you cannot be cutting corners like white folks do"(p.223). A white boy named Skeeter gets bitten by a snake and needs to go to the hospital. Tommy and his dad take him, because Skeeter's parents are out for evening. While they are waiting, they start talking about college again, and about a march on Washington. "He was talking about a march for togetherness."(p.231)
Helena
Helena
The 2 Jim Crow Laws
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Mississippi: Any person guilty of printing, publishing or circulating matter urging or presenting arguments in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
HEALTH CARE
Alabama: No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html
Helena
Mississippi: Any person guilty of printing, publishing or circulating matter urging or presenting arguments in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
HEALTH CARE
Alabama: No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html
Helena
The Long Walk Home
This story is about the Black people and white people's racial discrimination. I don't understand why people doesn't likes black people. Because black people is human, and white people is human too. Also, When white people hitting black person, it was so horrible. Because that boycott(?) was hitting older person then them, and they hit younger then them. I think they will protect the younger people. It is batter then hitting. When that part, I had so many shock
Helena
Helena
Emmitt Louis Till opinion. -Kellsz.
The untold story of Emmett Louis Till is horrifying.
Only because Emmett whistled to a white woman, he got tortured to death.
I mean, Emmett is only 14 years old and the men who beat him up we're probably around 20 years old.
I think the Jim Crow laws are devastating because people shouldn't be treated badly for their skin colour.
When Emmett's body was found and his mother wanted an to see her son, I was suprised.
If I was her, I would have not wanted to see his corpse because it would have been too heart breaking to see you're son dead.
When Emmett's mother decided to have an open funeral to show what a white person was capable of, I was suprised to hear so many people lined up to go to the funeral.
No one should be beaten to death for whistling.
Only because Emmett whistled to a white woman, he got tortured to death.
I mean, Emmett is only 14 years old and the men who beat him up we're probably around 20 years old.
I think the Jim Crow laws are devastating because people shouldn't be treated badly for their skin colour.
When Emmett's body was found and his mother wanted an to see her son, I was suprised.
If I was her, I would have not wanted to see his corpse because it would have been too heart breaking to see you're son dead.
When Emmett's mother decided to have an open funeral to show what a white person was capable of, I was suprised to hear so many people lined up to go to the funeral.
No one should be beaten to death for whistling.
2 Civil Rights Key events from Emmitt Till Link Timeline- Kellsz.
1. Civil Rights Act of 1957. The 1957 Civil Rights Act is passed during the Eisenhower administration starting the civil rights legilative programme that was to include the 1964 Civil Rights act and the 1964 Voting Rights Act.
The 1957 Civil Rights Bill aimed to ensure that all African Americans couold exersize they're right to vote. It wanted a new division (Civil Rights Division) within the federal Justice Department to monitor civil rights abuses. The Civil Rights act of 1957 was inspired by the murder of Emmet Louis Till.
2. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since reconstuction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discriminationof all kinds based on race, colour, religion or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.
The 1957 Civil Rights Bill aimed to ensure that all African Americans couold exersize they're right to vote. It wanted a new division (Civil Rights Division) within the federal Justice Department to monitor civil rights abuses. The Civil Rights act of 1957 was inspired by the murder of Emmet Louis Till.
2. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since reconstuction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discriminationof all kinds based on race, colour, religion or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.
Emmet Till Story-Timeline
(Greensboro N.C.) Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begina sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many simalar nonviolent protests throughout the South. Six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter. Student sit-ins would be effective throughout the Deep South in intergrating parks, swimming pools, theaters, libraries, and other public facilities.
Timeline~ Emmitt Louis Till
(Little Rock, Ark.) Formerly all- White Central High School learns that intergration is easier said than done. Nine black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower sends federal troop and the National Graurd to intervene on behalf of the students who become known as the "Little Rock Nine".
Civil Rights Act of 1957. The 1957 Civil Rights Act is passed during the Eisenhower administration starting the civil rights legeslative programming that was to include the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Civil Rights Act of 1957. The 1957 Civil Rights Act is passed during the Eisenhower administration starting the civil rights legeslative programming that was to include the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Movie:Emmitt Till
His mom shouldn't show her son's body to the world because it might make black's depression.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Slavery Facts
> Many owners stole slaves from each other. So common it was, steps were taken to identity each slave to each owner, by branding them with an iron on their arm or chest [above].
> Slaves who died in the ‘Middle Passage’ of boats taking them to slave-societies were often simply tossed off the ship without any ceremony or last rites.
Helena
Slavery Facts-By:Sebastian
The International Labor organization (ILO) has estimated that 218 million children between the ages of five and seventeen work in developing countries. of these, 1222.3 million children work in the Asia-pacific region, 49.3 million work in sub-saharan Africa, and 5.7 million work in Latin America.
Muhammad Is Determined-By:Sebastian
The reason I voted for Muhammad is because i feel he is determined because he belives in overcoming his struggles and never giving up hope. "By the end of the first month all that filled Muhammed 's mind was the effort to breathe. He fought against death from breath to breath, trying always to fill his lungs for the next minute of life, trying to think forward to an ending of his torment, tryin gto think of being free again." (Page 7,8)
The Long Walk Home-By:Sebastian
After watching the long walk home, staring Woppie Goldberg and sissy Spacek, I felt very sad and depressed about how badly the blacks were treated, for example: close to the end when the white men and women were getting extremely mad at Odessa and her friends , or as some whites called them the negro.
In another part I felt depressed when Odessa hat to walk so far in the rain and with no shoes, but when she got shoes for christmas i felt a surge of happiness.
The long walk home.
My class and I watched a movie called The Long Walk Home, This movie was based on a true
story about human rights between the "blacks" and the "white's". The main characters were Sissy Spacek
and Whoppi GoldBerg as Odessa. There was a very touching/meaninful part in the movie, that made me almost
cry because when you are watching the 'white" call the "black" people the N word like no one has names it hurts.
At one part the "white" pepole have the "black" people in the corner calling them names. Just because of there color
of there skin its such a stupid thing iv ever seen in my life. At the end its happy because the "blacks" get there human rights
to sit in the front of the busses and freedom of speech.
story about human rights between the "blacks" and the "white's". The main characters were Sissy Spacek
and Whoppi GoldBerg as Odessa. There was a very touching/meaninful part in the movie, that made me almost
cry because when you are watching the 'white" call the "black" people the N word like no one has names it hurts.
At one part the "white" pepole have the "black" people in the corner calling them names. Just because of there color
of there skin its such a stupid thing iv ever seen in my life. At the end its happy because the "blacks" get there human rights
to sit in the front of the busses and freedom of speech.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Jim Crow Stories by Robyn
The story that I read about the Jim Crow Laws was very sad. That seven year old girl was very brave because she tried a drink from the coloured fountain and the white fountain when her mom wasn't looking, but she could've gotten caught, that must have been scary. I feel sorry for that girl because she was scared and her mom didn't tell her if she was right or wrong with the water fountains being different or not. She was a brave seven year old.
(http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/children.html)
(http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/children.html)
The Long Walk Home [ Felt ]
It was really sad at the beginning, because black people must pay and go back side and ride one more. And I felt sad one sad at the beating scene, it was one black woman rode the bus and white people are beating her.
Kyle's _Long walk home_
At last, Sissy Spacek and Whoppi Gold berg sing a song with many black people.
Because they are brave and they knew distition is not right , all people is same.
Just they have diffrent language,color and enviorment.
The long walk home review
rating: 6/10
Allot of the movie was what I call "filler" because there was allot of talking and negotiating about the protest and all of that. but it was made quite well and there was good cinematography. it was very dramatic at parts and I enjoyed those parts because they got my eyes glued to the screen and I couldn't look away.
+Taylor's Long Walk Home+
The part in the movie that affected me the most was at the end when all the black women stood in a line a nd sang a song. The reason this part affected me was because even though hundreds of men were calling them the N word and telling them to leave they stood up to get their rights and to get their rights to ride the bus.And they one.I feel that segregation was a very bad part of slavery times because it wasnt fair to bring black slaves into america and then decades later when they become free make them follow unfair rules.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Neena-The long walk home
In this movie starring Sissy Spacek and Whoppi Goldberg was very meaningful and stood out a lot because the actors made it feel so real you had a feeling like you felt like you would just jump in the movie to stop the chaos happening then. Luckily the white mother of the family was really nice and had thoughts and sympathy for her maid.For example when the family was eating the christmas dinner and some other lady was talking bad about odyssi and said they should trade her in for a white one, the mother new she shouldn't give up since the family and maid have been together for 9 years already, and she new that the color of her skin was not a reason to let her go. Also in the ending when the whites all got together bringing down the blacks it was very scary and unpleasent because they were treating them like nothing, but the blacks didn't all fight back instead they got together and sang spirtual to get through the rough.
The Long Work Home
In 'THe Long Work Home', stirring Sissy Spacek and Whoppi Goldberg, the bus part affected me by hitting and chasing black. WHen black person rode the bus, whites bothered black. WHen black get off the bus, whites followed black and hit black. Black's son tried to help sister but whites kicked him and punched him. I felt terrible when white kicked black's brother. Should they kick that little child? In my opinion, whites don't have right to kick of hit blacks.
The Long Walk Home- by Shauna
In the movie, The Long Walk Home starring Sissy Spacek and Whoppi Goldburg, I felt scared when I found Odessi(Whoppi) got on a bus then the white boys started fun of her. Then when the bus stop she get off the bus and then the bus driver said 'Get off from the bus' to the white boys so they get off the bus then they followed her then they again beat her, later her younger brother came to protact her and he got punched and kicked from the boys because of his skin color. But they didn't say anything. I found bleeding on his face. I don't understand those guys they just beat them and I felt really bad and angry.
The Long Walk Home &&K E L L Y.
In the movie, The Long Walk Home starring Sissy Spacek and Whoppi Goldburg, I felt so peeved (sp?) off when I found out that black people had to pay in the front and get off the bus and go through the back door to sit down in the back just because of their skin color.
During the movie, when Odessi was on the bus three white guys went to her and talked rudely to her and threatened her, so she ran off of the bus. That part made me SO angry because those guys didn't have a right to threaten her when she didn't do anything.
Near the end, when the whites were protesting and fighting, the blacks all joined hands and sang made me feel triumphant because they didn't join the fight.
During the movie, when Odessi was on the bus three white guys went to her and talked rudely to her and threatened her, so she ran off of the bus. That part made me SO angry because those guys didn't have a right to threaten her when she didn't do anything.
Near the end, when the whites were protesting and fighting, the blacks all joined hands and sang made me feel triumphant because they didn't join the fight.
The Long Walk Home by Robyn
In the movie The Long Walk Home starring Sissy Spacek and Whoppi Goldberg, the part that I liked the most was when all of the black people joined hands and started singing. I thought that was really special because they were standing up for their civil rights, that moment made me feel happy for them. I didn't like the part when the three white boys beat up thay black girl, but I liked it when another black boy came running up to the white boys to stand up for the black girl, even thought he got badly hurt. I thought it was really brave of him to do that.
The Long Walk Home~Liana
In the movie The Long Walk Home starring Sissy Spacek and Whoppi Goldberg, the part that made me feel the most was when the sister got on a bus and it was boycott. Then, three guys got on the bus and started making fun of her. When the bus stopped, she ran off the bus. The guys were also kicked off the bus by the bus driver and they followed her. Then they cornered her and tried to beat her up. Right before the guys beat her up, her younger brother came and tried to protect her. He got punched and kicked by the three guys. Right after that the brother and sister's father came and scared the guys off. I can't believe that those guys would do that to the sister just because she was on the bus. She didn't do anything to hurt them. I felt really bad when the guys were calling her names and making her call them "sir" because that must have felt so humiliating.
Baylee- The Long Walk Home
In the movie, The Long Walk Home starring Sissy Spacek and Whoppi Goldburg, I felt scared for Odessi (Whoppi) and her family when her son and daughter were being beaten by the white kids. It was horrible to see them being kicked and punched til they bled just because they were black.
I also felt triumphant and satisfied when the driver kicked the white boys off the bus.
The movie was about civil rights and standing up for what you believe in.
I also felt triumphant and satisfied when the driver kicked the white boys off the bus.
The movie was about civil rights and standing up for what you believe in.
~~Thomas' The Long Walk Home~~
The Long Walk Home starring Sissy Spacek and Whoppi Goldberg was a movie about Anti/segregation. Throughout the movie, a white woman called Ms.Thompson would drive black people around. Yet her husband was all for segregation. He hated the black people. When black people wanted to get on the bus, they had to pay and go to back of the bus. When the black women stood up to the white men, I believed that was a very courageous act. I was amazed when Ms.Thompson stood with them.
The Long Walk Home~Alicia
In the movie The Long Walk Home starring Sissy Spacek and Whoppi Goldberg I felt really upset when the sister got on the bus while they boycotted it. Three men came on the bus and they were really mean to her. So she went off the bus and the three boys got kicked off so then the sister goto beat up by them and then the brother came and he also got beat up. Then the father came and he scared them away. I was really upset of how they got treated. It made me feel sick the way they got treated. I think that should have never happened.
Jinu
Georgia: No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls.
Louisiana: Any person...who shall rent any part of any such building to a negro person or a negro family when such building is already in whole or in part in occupancy by a white person or white family shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Terrible!!!
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Louisiana: Any person...who shall rent any part of any such building to a negro person or a negro family when such building is already in whole or in part in occupancy by a white person or white family shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Terrible!!!
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Jinu
The sign on the outside of the pool read: Hours 10am to 6pm Tuesday— Sat. Colored: Sunday from 1pm-5pm. After 5pm on Sunday, my grandfather would drain the pool (125,000 gal.) and on Monday everyone would grab buckets of liquid chlorine and scrub the entire pool.
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Whites and blacks can't swim togather!!! BECAUSE THEY THINK BLACKS ARE DIRTY???
It is very unfair.And, blacks are using water last!
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Whites and blacks can't swim togather!!! BECAUSE THEY THINK BLACKS ARE DIRTY???
It is very unfair.And, blacks are using water last!
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Municipal Swimming Pool
During my early childhood days in Alamogordo, New Mexico, in the early-to-mid l950s, my grandparents owned and operated the local municipal swimming pool. This was before filtering systems were required and the pool therefore had to be treated with chlorine and other chemicals to maintain the cleanliness of the water. It was also drained once a week and refilled with fresh water.
The sign on the outside of the pool read: Hours 10am to 6pm Tuesday— Sat. Colored: Sunday from 1pm-5pm. After 5pm on Sunday, my grandfather would drain the pool (125,000 gal.) and on Monday everyone would grab buckets of liquid chlorine and scrub the entire pool.
I asked my grandfather why we did this, and he said that the colored people were unclean and this would kill any bacteria that they would bring in. I also would ask my grandmother if I could go swimming on Sunday, and she would always tell me no, because that was the time when the "colored folks" could swim and I wasn't allowed to swim with them. This went on till 1957 and at that time the state required the new filtering system and my grandparents closed the pool because of the cost of the new equipment. This was an accepted practice during my early childhood.
Ted Gaskins
Las Cruces, NM
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During my early childhood days in Alamogordo, New Mexico, in the early-to-mid l950s, my grandparents owned and operated the local municipal swimming pool. This was before filtering systems were required and the pool therefore had to be treated with chlorine and other chemicals to maintain the cleanliness of the water. It was also drained once a week and refilled with fresh water.
The sign on the outside of the pool read: Hours 10am to 6pm Tuesday— Sat. Colored: Sunday from 1pm-5pm. After 5pm on Sunday, my grandfather would drain the pool (125,000 gal.) and on Monday everyone would grab buckets of liquid chlorine and scrub the entire pool.
I asked my grandfather why we did this, and he said that the colored people were unclean and this would kill any bacteria that they would bring in. I also would ask my grandmother if I could go swimming on Sunday, and she would always tell me no, because that was the time when the "colored folks" could swim and I wasn't allowed to swim with them. This went on till 1957 and at that time the state required the new filtering system and my grandparents closed the pool because of the cost of the new equipment. This was an accepted practice during my early childhood.
Ted Gaskins
Las Cruces, NM
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i can't just imagine that only white people could swim so a lot, but blacks are only available for only four hours once a week. Also they were born black because they want to.
My opinion about Jim Crow Law story- Shauna
I'm a 45 year-old African-American female and I remember at the age of nine years, in a small town Jackson, Missouri. I spent the night with a family member and on Saturday we went to the movies. We paid for our tickets and I began to reach for the door of the movie theatre and was told by a relative, we can't go in that door; we have to enter through this door. I was then led to a side door and up a very dark, narrow set of stairs. I found myself sitting in the balcony of this movie theatre. The white children were seated below. To this day that memory is with me. I don't remember the movie, but I remember that as if were yesterday. I had never experienced anything like that before. I lived in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and sat where I wanted to at the movies.
I CAN'T REALLY IMAGINE this she paid her tickets same as what white people paid. But they can't go in that door; they have to enter this door. It was like sat on a side door and up a very dark, narrow set of stairs but white people were sit at the another door as clean. I was REALLY MAD at this moment. And she was 9 years old. Maybe she was just sit there.(http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/children.html#18)
I CAN'T REALLY IMAGINE this she paid her tickets same as what white people paid. But they can't go in that door; they have to enter this door. It was like sat on a side door and up a very dark, narrow set of stairs but white people were sit at the another door as clean. I was REALLY MAD at this moment. And she was 9 years old. Maybe she was just sit there.(http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/children.html#18)
how did Elijah became a man?- Louis
Elijah became a man by rescueing David because he thought about his grandparents who couldn't pay taxes. Elijah decided to have a reward by rescueing David and give it to grandparents, so they could pay taxes. he coud have died in this advanture, but he courageosly did it.
how did Elijah became a man?- Louis
Elijah became a man by rescueing little David because he thought about his grandparents concerned about taxes. Also Elijah could have died, but he courageously tried to rescue David and got reward and give reward to grandparents, so they could pay taxes.
Ms. gina I will put quote next day. I don't have a book.
Ms. gina I will put quote next day. I don't have a book.
Neena--2 jim crow laws
ENTERTAINMENT
Alabama: It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards. (http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html)
EDUCATION
North Carolina: School textbooks shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them.
(http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html)
Alabama: It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards. (http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html)
EDUCATION
North Carolina: School textbooks shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them.
(http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html)
Jim Crows Laws - Shauna
1. Health Care:
Alabama: No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed.
2. Freedom Of Speech:
Mississippi: Any person guilty of printing, publishing or circulating matter urging or presenting arguments in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Alabama: No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed.
2. Freedom Of Speech:
Mississippi: Any person guilty of printing, publishing or circulating matter urging or presenting arguments in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
How did Elijah became a man? - Shauna
I think Elijah became a man when he standing up for what he believed in. To keep their farm so they needed money to pay their taxes. Get thirty-five dollars then they could pay their taxes. He went straight to Mr. Turner. " We ain't going unless we get thirty-five dollars," Elijah said. " Cash money." (pg.101) I think that moment was Elijah became a man when he standing up for what he believed in to pay their taxes.
Victor's Jim Crow Laws
WORK
Oklahoma: The baths and lockers for the negroes shall be separate from the white race, but may be in the same building. (Mining companies)
SERVICES
Georgia: No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html
Oklahoma: The baths and lockers for the negroes shall be separate from the white race, but may be in the same building. (Mining companies)
SERVICES
Georgia: No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html
Neena--At the movies..
I Sat Where I Wanted to at the Movies
I'm a 45 year-old African-American female and I remember at the age of nine years, in a small town Jackson, Missouri. I spent the night with a family member and on Saturday we went to the movies. We paid for our tickets and I began to reach for the door of the movie theatre and was told by a relative, we can't go in that door; we have to enter through this door. I was then led to a side door and up a very dark, narrow set of stairs. I found myself sitting in the balcony of this movie theatre. The white children were seated below. To this day that memory is with me. I don't remember the movie, but I remember that as if were yesterday. I had never experienced anything like that before. I lived in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and sat where I wanted to at the movies.
Beverly PrinceIndianapolis, IN
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I dont understand why people would waste so much of their own time and energy just splitting up each race through two diffrent doors to make their way in a movie theatre. The same places we go to now a days to relax, have fun and be yourself wasn't easy before, and not everyone realize's that. Also, the lady in the story mentioned that she remembers that day like it was yesterday, and to have a life-long bruise in your mind like that is cruel.
I'm a 45 year-old African-American female and I remember at the age of nine years, in a small town Jackson, Missouri. I spent the night with a family member and on Saturday we went to the movies. We paid for our tickets and I began to reach for the door of the movie theatre and was told by a relative, we can't go in that door; we have to enter through this door. I was then led to a side door and up a very dark, narrow set of stairs. I found myself sitting in the balcony of this movie theatre. The white children were seated below. To this day that memory is with me. I don't remember the movie, but I remember that as if were yesterday. I had never experienced anything like that before. I lived in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and sat where I wanted to at the movies.
Beverly PrinceIndianapolis, IN
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I dont understand why people would waste so much of their own time and energy just splitting up each race through two diffrent doors to make their way in a movie theatre. The same places we go to now a days to relax, have fun and be yourself wasn't easy before, and not everyone realize's that. Also, the lady in the story mentioned that she remembers that day like it was yesterday, and to have a life-long bruise in your mind like that is cruel.
water fountains labeled "white" or "colored"
Segregation was made real for me as a white Northerner when I took a train trip around the US in summer 1947 (I was 24). My return from the West Coast was by way of the Southwest and New Orleans. It was on that leg of the trip that I for the first time saw drinking fountains labeled "colored" and "white." This was not outright cruelty such as lynching or denial of voting rights, all of which I had learned about. It was not silly, as it at first seemed to me. I realized that for segregation to stick it had to intrude into the simplest everyday activity such as taking a drink of water. It was that very banality that brought home what it must be like to be "colored."
I chose not to drink from either fountain.
Mary Sive
Montclair, NJ
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this really made me understand how segregation was so awful. How they would creep it into everyday life, to make it just that more awful.
-will
how Elijah became a man
Elijah became a man by helping his grandparents pay their debts by saving little David and standing up against the white men that tried to stop him along the way.
Paking The Pee Can For The Road Trip-Sebastian
It's seems funny to me now, some 40 years later. But that's what we did. Pack the Pee can in the back seat of the car as we prepared for our trip from Terre Haute, IN. to Nashville, TN. Home of Ma Dear (my mothers Mom).
Packing that ole coffee can was as important as any of the other items normally carried on a road trip in those days.
My parents never addressed why we had to carry it. They didn't need to, because even as a child I already knew the answer to the unasked question. Ole Jim Crow didn't allow for us to use the restroom whenever we stopped for gas. That stop for fuel would be the only stop made. It just wasn't thought safe to do otherwise.
Peeing in that can seemed as normal as taking U.S. 41 South to the Penny Rail into Nashville where Big Jim really stood tall.
Jerry HutchinsonIndianapolis, IN
-Sebastian-
Packing that ole coffee can was as important as any of the other items normally carried on a road trip in those days.
My parents never addressed why we had to carry it. They didn't need to, because even as a child I already knew the answer to the unasked question. Ole Jim Crow didn't allow for us to use the restroom whenever we stopped for gas. That stop for fuel would be the only stop made. It just wasn't thought safe to do otherwise.
Peeing in that can seemed as normal as taking U.S. 41 South to the Penny Rail into Nashville where Big Jim really stood tall.
Jerry HutchinsonIndianapolis, IN
-Sebastian-
Thomas' Lizzy Homework
I felt scared for Lizzy because there are dangerous people out there, and a girl needs her family to take care of her and love her. To help her through life.
~~Thomas~~
~~Thomas~~
new orleans,LA. READ!
Buses/Streetcars: New Orleans, LA.
In the mid-50s public transportation in New Orleans was still segregated. BUSES
As a white 5-year-old I always tried to run to the back of the bus to sit on the long seat, but was prevented by my mother. Even though she was an ardent integrationist, presumably to avoid creating a scene, she told me I would "turn colored" if I sat in the back of the bus. STREETCARS
The streetcars that traveled on St. Charles Avenue had a two-sided removable placard affixed to the top of one of the seats on each side. One side of the sign read "colored" and the other side read "white". When the streetcar got too full in the back, a "colored" person would push the sign up a couple of seats to create more "colored" seating. Similarly, when it was too crowded in the front "white" section someone would move the sign back. The ironic thing about this is that the streetcars had no back or front -- they would travel forward or backward: when they got to the end of the line they didn't turn around on a u-turn in the track -- they just stopped, shifted the backs on the seats, turned the colored/white sign around and the back of the streetcar became the front. This confused me as a child; later I perceived it as deeply metaphorical. Ann JacobsPasadena, CA
In the mid-50s public transportation in New Orleans was still segregated. BUSES
As a white 5-year-old I always tried to run to the back of the bus to sit on the long seat, but was prevented by my mother. Even though she was an ardent integrationist, presumably to avoid creating a scene, she told me I would "turn colored" if I sat in the back of the bus. STREETCARS
The streetcars that traveled on St. Charles Avenue had a two-sided removable placard affixed to the top of one of the seats on each side. One side of the sign read "colored" and the other side read "white". When the streetcar got too full in the back, a "colored" person would push the sign up a couple of seats to create more "colored" seating. Similarly, when it was too crowded in the front "white" section someone would move the sign back. The ironic thing about this is that the streetcars had no back or front -- they would travel forward or backward: when they got to the end of the line they didn't turn around on a u-turn in the track -- they just stopped, shifted the backs on the seats, turned the colored/white sign around and the back of the streetcar became the front. This confused me as a child; later I perceived it as deeply metaphorical. Ann JacobsPasadena, CA
WOW sander,william,dynes
How disgusting to think that people would had to live in diffrent areas because of there race and skin color also they would have 2 diffrent foutians 2 drinke from!!!!!, diffrent shops ,diffrent time to do stuff and alot more junk....the jim crow laws.
Taylors American radio
Chants from the Schoolyard
I started elementary school in 1963 in Asheville, North Carolina. It was segregated and many whites vocalized and put in to print that blacks had everything that they needed and could not understand why blacks wanted to go to school with white children.
The science labs, reading material, and audio-visual equipment as it was called at that time was greatly inferior. I saw what were called filmstrips at the "colored" elementary school that I attended. When integration took place in the mid 1960s, out of the blue, came science equipment and, as it was called back then, moving or motion films.
I remember vividly a chant that white students would sing when standing outside of Aycock Elementary School when black children from the Burton Street area of West Asheville began attending that school when integration was implemented. The words were:
Bonnie and Clyde
Were sitting by the river
Eating chocolate liver
Along came a nigger
And pushed them in the river
I'm grateful that I had a family and a community that stood fast and weathered the storm.
Travis McGahee
Antioch, CA
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I think this would be very scary and dangerouse to go to school if their was only a couple black kids at your school. And if they were always chanting mean racist comments about you even though you did nothing wrong. The only real options for a black person at school would be not to get an education or live through all the descrimination.
I started elementary school in 1963 in Asheville, North Carolina. It was segregated and many whites vocalized and put in to print that blacks had everything that they needed and could not understand why blacks wanted to go to school with white children.
The science labs, reading material, and audio-visual equipment as it was called at that time was greatly inferior. I saw what were called filmstrips at the "colored" elementary school that I attended. When integration took place in the mid 1960s, out of the blue, came science equipment and, as it was called back then, moving or motion films.
I remember vividly a chant that white students would sing when standing outside of Aycock Elementary School when black children from the Burton Street area of West Asheville began attending that school when integration was implemented. The words were:
Bonnie and Clyde
Were sitting by the river
Eating chocolate liver
Along came a nigger
And pushed them in the river
I'm grateful that I had a family and a community that stood fast and weathered the storm.
Travis McGahee
Antioch, CA
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I think this would be very scary and dangerouse to go to school if their was only a couple black kids at your school. And if they were always chanting mean racist comments about you even though you did nothing wrong. The only real options for a black person at school would be not to get an education or live through all the descrimination.
Taylors Elijah and Lizzy
I think elijah was a man because he went to go find little david. I think it would be hard to go to an island with a drunk guy and look wor a little blind boy all to just save his familys farm.
I Felt scared for lizzy to run away with josuah and lem because if they had been caught they would have got in so much trouble and whipped and they probably would never get another chance to run away or get off the plantation
I Felt scared for lizzy to run away with josuah and lem because if they had been caught they would have got in so much trouble and whipped and they probably would never get another chance to run away or get off the plantation
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Elijah
I think Elijah is grown up because he whent out on the water to rescue a little boy who was with a drunk man. I think that takes a lot of courage and everyone should be proud of him. I know I am
jim crow laws from kitty kait
If I were Black I would be Fighting Mad
I went to the South with my grandmother when I was 12 years old. For the first time I saw that there actually were separate drinking fountains, separate everything for blacks. I was shocked and outraged. I knew if I were black I would be fighting mad. As a child, I didn't know what to do, so when I was in a grocery store I mixed all the brown eggs up with the white eggs in the dairy department while my grandmother shopped. It was the only way I felt I could do something to rebel against the injustice I saw.
Cynthia BormanEnglewood, CO http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/children.html#39)
I really look up to that little girl she has a lot of passion and courage to change the world. I wish everyone did something to make the world a better place for everyone to live it could be anything (big or little) whats the diffrents between black and white its a shade and a skin coulor big deal were all the same in side. even if your white your still diffrent from othe whites. we all are diffrent.
I went to the South with my grandmother when I was 12 years old. For the first time I saw that there actually were separate drinking fountains, separate everything for blacks. I was shocked and outraged. I knew if I were black I would be fighting mad. As a child, I didn't know what to do, so when I was in a grocery store I mixed all the brown eggs up with the white eggs in the dairy department while my grandmother shopped. It was the only way I felt I could do something to rebel against the injustice I saw.
Cynthia BormanEnglewood, CO http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/children.html#39)
I really look up to that little girl she has a lot of passion and courage to change the world. I wish everyone did something to make the world a better place for everyone to live it could be anything (big or little) whats the diffrents between black and white its a shade and a skin coulor big deal were all the same in side. even if your white your still diffrent from othe whites. we all are diffrent.
Municipal Swimming Pool-Liana
I think it's mean that in some public swimming pools, the pool would be open to white people about 5 days a week and for black people, the pool would be open to them only about 1-2 days a week. I think this is mean because the white and black people should have equal days to swim in the pool. I can't believe that in some pools, the day before the pool was open only for black people, the white people would drain out the pool, and use liquid chlorine to scrub the whole pool. I can't believe this because the reason they did this was because they thought the black people were unclean and the chlorine would kill any bacteria. Also, the white and black people couldn't swim together.
How Did Elijah Become A Man?- Liana
I think Elijah became a man when he stood up for what he believed in. When Mr. Turner offered Elijah ten dollars if he could rescue Little David, Elijah wouldn't take it. He said " You were offering 25 dollarsto the others" (p.101). They argued some more. Then Mr. Turner said " You think you worth 25 dollars ?" (p.101). They kept arguing until Elijah finally said " We ain't going until we get 35 dollars, cash money" (p.101). When Elijah stood up for what he believed in, I think he showed that he had become a man.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Honey Girl's opinion about Jim Crow Law..
spent my childhood life growing up in the "projects." When I was around 12 years old I took my first job away from home. The job was "helper" for a driver on a soft drink bottling company truck route. Of course, all delivery route drivers were white. The route consisted of delivering bottled drinks to "country stores" in rural North Carolina. My job was to collect the empty glass bottles, put them in the wooden crates, sort them by product, and put them on the truck. The driver would deliver the fresh product and perform the traditional hospitality conversations with the local storeowners.
One day the truck pulled up to a small store somewhere in a rural community and I heard this frightening barrage of barking, obviously from at least two large dogs. The barking came directly from the rear area where the "empties" were stored. I looked at the driver in heart wrenching fear and asked, "What's that?" He proceeded to deliver to me what he probably thought was a completely obligatory lesson. "Those are Nigger Dogs. Now you be careful not ta git too close to 'em, ya hear!" I sat still and confused in the passenger seat, almost unable to move from fear. He then looked me straight in the eye and asked, "You're a nigger, ain't cha?" Being only 12 years old and probably over 50 miles from anywhere recognizable in the countryside, I responded the only way I could, "Yes sir. I guess I am." And that was one of my first practical lessons in the subtleties of Jim Crow and rural Southern culture.
I thnk Jim Crow Law is too bad, and so poor. Because 12 years old is really young. And all ther people is white, so I thnk he have so many hurts when he is that years old.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/children.html#23
One day the truck pulled up to a small store somewhere in a rural community and I heard this frightening barrage of barking, obviously from at least two large dogs. The barking came directly from the rear area where the "empties" were stored. I looked at the driver in heart wrenching fear and asked, "What's that?" He proceeded to deliver to me what he probably thought was a completely obligatory lesson. "Those are Nigger Dogs. Now you be careful not ta git too close to 'em, ya hear!" I sat still and confused in the passenger seat, almost unable to move from fear. He then looked me straight in the eye and asked, "You're a nigger, ain't cha?" Being only 12 years old and probably over 50 miles from anywhere recognizable in the countryside, I responded the only way I could, "Yes sir. I guess I am." And that was one of my first practical lessons in the subtleties of Jim Crow and rural Southern culture.
I thnk Jim Crow Law is too bad, and so poor. Because 12 years old is really young. And all ther people is white, so I thnk he have so many hurts when he is that years old.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/children.html#23
Jim Crow Laws -Honey Girl
New Mexico: Separate rooms shall be provided for the teaching of pupils of African descent, and such pupils may not be admitted to the school rooms occupied and used by pupils of Caucasian or other descent.
North Carolina: School textbooks shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html
North Carolina: School textbooks shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html
I think Elijah became a man when he stood up for what he believed. ~Alicia
I think Elijah became a man by standing up for what he believed in. He sure told Mr. Turner what he wanted. When they gave him ten dollars he fought back. "You were offering twenty-five dollars to the others" (p.101). They kept arguing. Elijah would not go until he got the money he had been promised. "We ain't going until we get thirty-five dollars" Elijah said "Cash Money"(p.101). Elijah kept fighting until he got what he wanted. I think he showed that he had become a man.
~Alicia
~Alicia
My opinion about a Jim Crow Law Story. -Mr. Cuddles owner
I Never got Arrested —I got Dirty Looks
I grew up in New York City. Relatives in Miami Beach, Florida had a daughter my age and the families got us together. When we were about ten, she came to New York to visit then I went to Miami during school holiday. We were in a Woolworth's and I went to take a drink of water at the fountain. My friend was horrified and stopped me because there was a sign that said "colored." She said I had to drink out of the other fountain, that read, "white." I remember being horrified, angry and totally outraged. I couldn't understand why there was a difference. I remember telling her I was going to drink out of it anyway and she started crying, that we would be arrested for drinking out of the "colored" fountain. That scared me (I was only 10 or 11) and I didn't do it. But I remember asking her parents about it (although I don't remember what they said) and then telling mine when I got home, and I swore I'd never do that again. And I didn't. Each time I traveled to the South I would make a point of drinking from the "colored" fountain. I never got arrested although I did get dirty looks, which made me feel proud.
Liz Schick
Richmond, VT
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I was REALLY shocked when I found out that blacks and whites had to drink out of a differnt water fountain. When I found out, I was SO mad. I don't have alot to say on this story but it really said something to me, that one person could make a huge difference if they tried hard enough. But they were too worried they might get beaten up for what they believe in. Even mixing up eggs makes a difference. Plus I think back then, drinking out of a colored water fountain when you were white was a brave thing to do. "I remember telling her I was going to drink out of it anyway"(http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/read.html)
Now I'm glad that racist isn't as stronger anymore. =D
I grew up in New York City. Relatives in Miami Beach, Florida had a daughter my age and the families got us together. When we were about ten, she came to New York to visit then I went to Miami during school holiday. We were in a Woolworth's and I went to take a drink of water at the fountain. My friend was horrified and stopped me because there was a sign that said "colored." She said I had to drink out of the other fountain, that read, "white." I remember being horrified, angry and totally outraged. I couldn't understand why there was a difference. I remember telling her I was going to drink out of it anyway and she started crying, that we would be arrested for drinking out of the "colored" fountain. That scared me (I was only 10 or 11) and I didn't do it. But I remember asking her parents about it (although I don't remember what they said) and then telling mine when I got home, and I swore I'd never do that again. And I didn't. Each time I traveled to the South I would make a point of drinking from the "colored" fountain. I never got arrested although I did get dirty looks, which made me feel proud.
Liz Schick
Richmond, VT
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I was REALLY shocked when I found out that blacks and whites had to drink out of a differnt water fountain. When I found out, I was SO mad. I don't have alot to say on this story but it really said something to me, that one person could make a huge difference if they tried hard enough. But they were too worried they might get beaten up for what they believe in. Even mixing up eggs makes a difference. Plus I think back then, drinking out of a colored water fountain when you were white was a brave thing to do. "I remember telling her I was going to drink out of it anyway"(http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/read.html)
Now I'm glad that racist isn't as stronger anymore. =D
2 Jim Crow Laws. -Mr. Cuddles owner.
Freedom of Speech:
Mississippi: Any person guilty of printing, publishing or circulating matter urging or presenting arguments in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Entertainment:
Alabama: It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided.
Mississippi: Any person guilty of printing, publishing or circulating matter urging or presenting arguments in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Entertainment:
Alabama: It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided.
How did Elijah become a man? -Mr. Cuddles owner. =D
I think Elijah became a man by standing up for what he believed in because that means he's not afraid to express his feelings. When he was only paid half the amount of money, he went straight to Mr. Turner and demanded "We aint going unless we get thirty-five dollars" Elijah said. "Cash Money" (pg.101). Also when he mouthed off t Frank Petty. He did't let him push him around, he stood up for what he believed in.
Baylee- Jeering at the Swimming Pool
Jeering at the Swimming Pool
As a youngster in Bellaire, OH in the early 1950's, we would go to the public swimming pool on Mondays, "colored day", and sit in the observer stands and jeer at the colored swimmers. Richard Allietta, Cambridge, OH
I cant imagine this. Not only that these people are teaching the young children horrible habits that they could've decided against one day when they're older, but also they're making this time unenjoyable for the swimmers. They came to have a good time and relax and have fun, and these horrible people show up just to be mean and rude. What are they proving? That they're just terrible cold hearted people?
As a youngster in Bellaire, OH in the early 1950's, we would go to the public swimming pool on Mondays, "colored day", and sit in the observer stands and jeer at the colored swimmers. Richard Allietta, Cambridge, OH
I cant imagine this. Not only that these people are teaching the young children horrible habits that they could've decided against one day when they're older, but also they're making this time unenjoyable for the swimmers. They came to have a good time and relax and have fun, and these horrible people show up just to be mean and rude. What are they proving? That they're just terrible cold hearted people?
Two Jim Crow Laws
1. Florida: Any negro man and white woman, or any white man and negro woman, who are not married to each other, who habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room, shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding 12 months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
2. Georgia: It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play on any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted to the Negro race, and it shall be unlawful for any amateur colored baseball team to play baseball within two blocks of any playground devoted to the white race.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html
2. Georgia: It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play on any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted to the Negro race, and it shall be unlawful for any amateur colored baseball team to play baseball within two blocks of any playground devoted to the white race.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html
Baylee- Jim Crow Laws
ON ENTERTAINMENT-
Alabama: It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided.
ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH-
Mississippi: Any person guilty of printing, publishing or circulating matter urging or presenting arguments in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html)
Alabama: It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided.
ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH-
Mississippi: Any person guilty of printing, publishing or circulating matter urging or presenting arguments in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html)
Segregation a Shock~Alicia
I would be so astonished if I went to a different coutry and I saw everything segregated. I would not be prepared to come to a country and see that. There were seperate water fountains, bathrooms, and the movie theaters. I would not even be able to believe what was happening. I think that it is not fair that everything was segregated because everyone should be treated with that same amount of respect. Not think the white people should be treated better than the black people.
Jim Crow Laws~Alicia
EDUCATION
Kentucky: The children of white and colored races committed to reform schools shall be kept entirely separate from each other.
HEALTH CARE
Alabama: No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed.
(http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html)
Kentucky: The children of white and colored races committed to reform schools shall be kept entirely separate from each other.
HEALTH CARE
Alabama: No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed.
(http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html)
Baylee- How Did Elijah Become A Man?
I think Elijah became a man when he stood up for what he believed in, and he believed that his family should get to keep their farm. To keep their farm, they needed money, and Elijah stood up for his family and he to get a full thirty-five dollars so his family could pay their taxes. "We aint going unless we get thirty-five dollars" Elijah said. "Cash Money" (pg.101) Everyone was very surprised he'd talked back to a white man, but I think that was the moment he became a man.
-Baylee
-Baylee
IM SCARED FOR LIZZY(kitty kait)
I was scared for Lizzy when Joshua and Lem left because Mister Joe Haynes and Master Lewis might think that Lizzy knows where Joshua and Lem are and could try to get the infomation from. and she does not tell them she could get whipped.
(I feel scared for lizzy) by super man
She was free «a scary free, a hungry free, a tired free but it was free»(p.58)
Thursday, February 21, 2008
How do you feel when Lizzy left with Lem and Joshua? By:Shauna
I felt scared for Lizzy when she left with Lem and Joshua because she could have been caught then she could have been whipped with death like terrible death. On pg.70 " She ran as fast as she could, her feet slapping against the hard road. When she got around the bend, the men were still in sigh, tall and proud. She followed them, never looking back."(pg.70)
The Glory Field-Lizzy- Louis
I felt scared when Lizzy ran off the plantation with Lem and Joshua because she could have been caught. There were a lot of riders who want to catch the running slaves and got rewards, so I felt scared if riders would catch her.Also in book it said, "it was a scary free....."(58).
Shauna's Muhammad character trait
I think Muhammad was survivor charater trait because he was in a slave ship a month with terrible condition. It was so difficult to breath. On pg.7~8 " He fought against death from breath to breath, trying always to fill his lungs for the next minute of life, trying to ease the pain of the shackles around his legs, trying to think forward to an ending of his torment, trying to think of being free again" ( pg. 7~8)
Neena -Lizzie poll
I felt scared for Lizzie and sorry for her too. Because shes still very young and trying her best to do the right thing even when it means leaving people back home."The sun rose high in the sky, and Lizzie fell asleep in fits and starts. She was already missing Saran and Grandma Dolly."(page 58) Although, running away could get her away from the plantation and the chaos of getting whipped from bringing someone water."It was what happened to her. She was free and a tired free, but it was free."(page 58)
Neena -Muhammad poll
I personally chose determined for Muhammad Bilal beacause he was the kind of person that knew who he was and knew what was right him.Even though he did get captured when he was 11 years old, sometimes he could stand up and say what would need to let out, without getting backed down. "But every morning he would get up and say 'I am a man!' Grandma Dolly used to tell the children in the days before they were old enough to go into the fields. 'I am a man' " (page 15)
Helena's Lizzy...
I chose scared because Lizzy's mom was dead, and she will be so sad. and she had to bring the water to Lem, she will got a whipp and thats so terrible. (p.11-70)
Victor's Lizzy Pole ( Felt )
I think she was really scared, because her mom died.
So she had to be a slave, it is really sad.
And when Lem and Joshua ran away, she want to give Lem water, But when Lizzy gave Lem the water she got whipped.
It was scared for Lizzy and she had to run too.
and she hid on the tree and she ended at Yankees camp. ( p.11 ~ 70 )
So she had to be a slave, it is really sad.
And when Lem and Joshua ran away, she want to give Lem water, But when Lizzy gave Lem the water she got whipped.
It was scared for Lizzy and she had to run too.
and she hid on the tree and she ended at Yankees camp. ( p.11 ~ 70 )
Victor's Muhammad Pole ( Felt )
I think he was determined because he believe he could alive.
And he looked himself and tried to speak, but no sound came.
And one old man cried, but Muhammad wasn't.
So Muhammad is really determined and brave. ( p.6 )
And he looked himself and tried to speak, but no sound came.
And one old man cried, but Muhammad wasn't.
So Muhammad is really determined and brave. ( p.6 )
Victor's Muhammad Pole ( Felt )
I think he was determined because he captured and got on to the ship and he was trying to look himself and speak he would alive, and he wasn't crying.
But,one old man cried. And the Muhammad was scared but he believe that he could alive.
so he was determined ( p.6 ) .
But,one old man cried. And the Muhammad was scared but he believe that he could alive.
so he was determined ( p.6 ) .
Muhammad Bilal is determined-by: Sebastian
The reason I voted for Muhammad is because i feel he is determined because he belives in overcoming his struggles and never giving up hope.
"By the end of the first month all that filled Muhammed 's mind was the effort to breathe. He fought against death from breath to breath, trying always to fill his lungs for the next minute of life, trying to think forward to an ending of his torment, tryin gto think of being free again." (Page 7,8)
"By the end of the first month all that filled Muhammed 's mind was the effort to breathe. He fought against death from breath to breath, trying always to fill his lungs for the next minute of life, trying to think forward to an ending of his torment, tryin gto think of being free again." (Page 7,8)
I felt scared when Lizzy went with Joshua and Lem~ Alicia
I felt scared for Lizzy when she escaped. She made a good choice but I think she put herself at risk because she could have gotten caught or whipped. I got scared for Lizzy when I heard "They had heard it at the same time. The hounds! Lizzy stood stock-still, holding her breath. In the distance she could hear them. Hounds barking in the night air, their yelps coming quickly as they moved along" (p.61/62). I was glad Lizzy made it to the Yankees camp. Good thing she went because who knows what might have happened to her.
Mr. Cuddles- How did you feel when Lizzy left with Lem and Joshua?
I felt scared for Lizzy because she could have been caught and been whipped to death. On the tree she thought to herself, "It was what happened to her. She was free. It was a scary free, and it was a hungry free, and a tired free, but it was free" (p.58). Luckily, she makes it to a yankee camp and decides to stay there and help out, instead of trying to go to the North. "She ran as fast as she could, her feet slapping against the hard road. When she got around the bend, the men were still in sight, tall and proud. She followed them, never looking back"(pg.70).
How Did You Feel When Lizzy Left With Lem and Joshua?- Liana
I felt excited when Lizzy left with Lem and Joshua because hopefully she would escape to the Northern U.S. and be free. She wouldn't have to live on the plantation anymore and be whipped if she did something bad. Even though she had to leave her family, she did escape with Lem and Joshua, who were also her family. I think Lizzy was happy to be free because on p.58 she thinks to herself "It was what happened to her. She was free. It was a scary free, and it was a hungry free, and a tired free, but it was free" (p.58).
Baylee: Lizzy Poll
I felt scared for Lizzy when she ran away with Lem and Joshua, especially when the hounds came! "They had both heard it at the same time. The hounds! Lizzy stood stock-still, holding her breath. In the distance she could hear them." (pg.61/62) She was probably thinking it was the end of her freedom, or even worse, her life. Maybe she would have to go back to Master Lewis and Mister Joe Haynes! "She could feel her face contorting with the fear of the moment, with the panic that she felt." (pg.62)
Blackhistory month
Black History Month series
David ChariandyA program for adults
Thursday February 28
7:30 pm
Free
Alice MacKay Room, Lower LevelCentral Library350 West Georgia Street
Join David Chariandy as he reads from his debut novel, Soucouyant, shortlisted for the 2007 Governor General's Literary Award, and longlisted for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Join David Chariandy as he reads from his debut novel, Soucouyant, shortlisted for the 2007 Governor General's Literary Award, and longlisted for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly remembered legacies that continue to haunt the Americas. Set in Ontario in a house near the Scarborough Bluffs, the story focuses on a Canadian-born son who despairingly abandons his Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia.
David Chariandy is one of the founders of Commodore Books, the first Black Canadian literary press in Western Canada which is dedicated to publishing the work of black writers living in Canada। Chariandy teaches English at Simon Fraser University
David ChariandyA program for adults
Thursday February 28
7:30 pm
Free
Alice MacKay Room, Lower LevelCentral Library350 West Georgia Street
Join David Chariandy as he reads from his debut novel, Soucouyant, shortlisted for the 2007 Governor General's Literary Award, and longlisted for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Join David Chariandy as he reads from his debut novel, Soucouyant, shortlisted for the 2007 Governor General's Literary Award, and longlisted for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly remembered legacies that continue to haunt the Americas. Set in Ontario in a house near the Scarborough Bluffs, the story focuses on a Canadian-born son who despairingly abandons his Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia.
David Chariandy is one of the founders of Commodore Books, the first Black Canadian literary press in Western Canada which is dedicated to publishing the work of black writers living in Canada। Chariandy teaches English at Simon Fraser University
Muhammad is Determined-Thomas
I chose the Character Trait Determined for Muhammad because on Page 4 "If he was to die, it would be like a warrior, he told himself. He did not cry out, but his heart betrayed him, pounding in his chest when he was put into the pens"
Determine:Muhammad's trait
I chose determine because he didn't die in the slave-ship. It was painful but he didn't give up. For example "He fought against death---trying to think of being free again(p.7-8)
kitty kait
I think muhammed is a determined because he know what and who he is. He will not let you tell him diffrently. dont call him boy or black guy call him muhammed."I am a man"(pg.15)
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Muhammed's Character Trait: By Baylee
I chose determined as Muhammed's character trait because he knew that other people couldnt rob him of his humanity as long as he didnt forget where he came from. "Every morning he would get up and say, 'I am a man!'" (pg 15). Also, no matter how tough the circumstances, subconciously he knew he could make it through, and one day make a better life for himself and his family. "He fought against death from breath to breath, trying always to fill his lungs for the next minute of life."(pg.8). Muhammed is a very headstrong character.
-BAYLEEEEE
-BAYLEEEEE
Killer_Bears Character Trait: Determined o_0
"Muhammad looked about, hoping to glimpse a tree on a mountain, or even some small piece of earth in the distance."
I think muhammed was determined to stay alive and keep going forward.
I think muhammed was determined to stay alive and keep going forward.
muhammad was from super man
He was proud beucause every day before to go work on the field he was saing «I am a man» (??p.).
Kelly's character trait for Muhammud.
I think Muhammud's strongest character trait is surviver because he was trapped in a slaveship for a month in terrible condition. It was getting harder and harder to breath beacause the ship was filled with to-be slaves. On pg.8 "He fought angainst death from breath to breath, trying always to fill his lungs for the next minute of life."(pg.8).
Alicia's Trait of Muhammad
I choose determined because Muhammad faught a Seen-Ba and was determined to kill it because " He said he fought that animal with all his heart and every bit of strength that was in him" (p.18).
Liana's Character Trait for Muhammad
I chose the character trait determined because when Muhammad was in Live Oakes Planatation, he never thought of himself as a slave, he knew he was a man on p.15 " But every morning he would get up and say, I am a man! I am a man! " (p.15).
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Kelly's Bance Island Fact♥
The first English-speaking settlement in South Carolina was established on the coast in 1670. For the first thirty years the colonists had little success, but by about 1700 they discovered that rice, imported from Asia, grew well in the inland valley swamps of the Low Country.(http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/02.htm)
Thursday, February 14, 2008
• By 1752, more than 25,000 slaves were brought into the United States yearly.
• Between 1619 and 1865, 400,000 slaves entered what now makes up the United States; almost as many are estimated to have died
during capture and in transit across the Atlantic Ocean.
• Slavery was seen as “necessary” for the economic profit of landowners in the United States as well as in other areas of the Americas.
• White citizens of the United States were not punished for the beating, rape and/or murder of slaves; slaves in the United States had
no legal standing or recourse.
• Slave parents had no rights to their children, who could be sold away from them at any time.
• U.S. slaves and their descendents numbered 4,000,000 by the time of emancipation in 1865.
• Unjust structures and systems in the United States have continued to affect freed slaves and their descendents during the last 150
years.
http://www.coc.org/pdfs/ej/slavery.pdf
• Between 1619 and 1865, 400,000 slaves entered what now makes up the United States; almost as many are estimated to have died
during capture and in transit across the Atlantic Ocean.
• Slavery was seen as “necessary” for the economic profit of landowners in the United States as well as in other areas of the Americas.
• White citizens of the United States were not punished for the beating, rape and/or murder of slaves; slaves in the United States had
no legal standing or recourse.
• Slave parents had no rights to their children, who could be sold away from them at any time.
• U.S. slaves and their descendents numbered 4,000,000 by the time of emancipation in 1865.
• Unjust structures and systems in the United States have continued to affect freed slaves and their descendents during the last 150
years.
http://www.coc.org/pdfs/ej/slavery.pdf
Sebastian's Gullah fact
The Gullah diet is still based heavily on rice, reflecting the rice coast origins of their many ancestors. Two traditional dishes are "rice and greens" and "rice and okra,"similar to Sierra Leone's plasas, rice and orka soup. The Gullah (and other south carolinians) also make "red rice" witch, when serves with a "gumbo" containing orka, fish, tomatoes, and hot peppers,greatly resembles West African jollof rice. To some people they refer jollof rice as a "typical south carolina meal."
http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/o5.htm
http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/o5.htm
Interesting Facts About Slavery
Wanton cruelty in the treatment of slaves was forbidden by the Code of Hammurabi, one of the most famous of ancient documents. It was promulgated in the King's name in Babylonia sometime between 2100 and 1800 B.C. The code, however, stipulated that slaves were to be branded on the forehead and forbidden to hide or mask the mark.
kitty kait's slavery facts
slavery is when you do others work and don't get payed. On a slave ship you get water twice a day and a tiny bit of food. The food is not good eather. And when you are a slave you be taken away from your family and friends or they could be taken away from you. I cant i magine leaving alife that you know your family could be taken from
HELP OTHERS STOP SLAVERY
HELP OTHERS STOP SLAVERY
Konanator
South Carolina is about the same size as Sierra Leone and has a roughly similar geography and climate.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Shauna's Slave Facts
1.Slave labor made it to mine for expensive metal and to harvest sugar, indigo, and tobacco; slaves taught whites how to raise such crops as rice and indigo.
2.Slaves arrived in Spanish Florida before 1619 and a lately uncovered census shows that blacks were present in Virginia before 1619.
The slaves worked longer days, more days, and more of their life and when they worked very hard and they whipped and whipped.
2.Slaves arrived in Spanish Florida before 1619 and a lately uncovered census shows that blacks were present in Virginia before 1619.
The slaves worked longer days, more days, and more of their life and when they worked very hard and they whipped and whipped.
Shauna's "The Gullah Today"
There are many have left the rural areas for jobs in the cities. Young people are attending university and finding their jobs places away from home. Television, telephones, bridges, good roads, and ferries have come to the once, most faint parts of the Gullah area—and many "old-fashioned" habits have been lost. But the Gullah still hold to their special agreement, and they still take pride in their common heritage.(http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/08.htm)
The South Carolina Rice Plantation
South Carolina is almost same size of Sierra Leone, also geaography and climate.South Carolina consists of two regeons: Upcountry which is located in many hills and northest in South Carolina and Low country which is located in swamp side( southern coastline).Through 1700's, the British colonists knew that rice will grow really well in Lowcountry,so they trid to cultivate the rice.
http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/05.htm
http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/05.htm
Victor's Yale Slave
Young people are attending university and finding professional positions away from home. Television, telephones, bridges, good roads, and ferries have come to the once, most remote parts of the Gullah area—and many "old-fashioned" customs have been lost.
Most things that come from slaves.
It mean slaves are work for us.
But we're all same but, only skin color is black, so they're work for us.
From : http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/08.htm
Most things that come from slaves.
It mean slaves are work for us.
But we're all same but, only skin color is black, so they're work for us.
From : http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/08.htm
Sebastian's gullah fact
The Gullah diet is still based heavily on rice, reflecting the rice coast origins of their many ancestors. Two traditional dishes are "rice and greens" and "rice and okra,"similar to Sierra Leone's plasas, rice and orka soup. The Gullah (and other south carolinians) also make "red rice" witch, when serves with a "gumbo" containing orka, fish, tomatoes, and hot peppers,greatly resembles West African jollof rice. To some people they refer jollof rice as a "typical south carolina meal."
http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/o5.htm
Sebastian's gullah fact
The Gullah diet is still based heavily on rice, reflecting the rice coast origins of their many ancestors. Two traditional dishes are "rice and greens" and "rice and okra,"similar to Sierra Leone's plasas, rice and orka soup. The Gullah (and other south carolinians) also make "red rice" witch, when serves with a "gumbo" containing orka, fish, tomatoes, and hot peppers,greatly resembles West African jollof rice. To some people they refer jollof rice as a "typical south carolina meal."
http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/o5.htm
this is why they take the Bance island for their forteress. Bance island was an economically strategic point. Because Bance Island was at the limit of navigability for ocean-going vessels, it was the natural meeting place for European slave traders arriving in large sailing ships and African traders following the rivers down from the interior (http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/03.htm).
Neena -Gullah Customs and Traditions fact
The Gullah diet is still based heavily on rice, reflecting the Rice Coast origins of many of their ancestors. Two traditional dishes are "rice and greens" and "rice and okra," similar to Sierra Leone's plasas and rice and okra soup. http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/05.htm
Thomas' Yale Fact
Bance Island was one of the major slave trading operations on the Rice Coast of West Africa.
"Reports from the 1780s show that Danish merchants were buying two thousand slaves a year at Bance Island, and during the same decade newspaper advertisements in Charlestown were announcing the arrival of Danish ships with slaves from the "Windward Coast." At "Bunce Island" today one can still find a cannon from a Danish ship dated 1780 and the grave of a Danish sea captain who died in 1783." http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/03.htm
"Reports from the 1780s show that Danish merchants were buying two thousand slaves a year at Bance Island, and during the same decade newspaper advertisements in Charlestown were announcing the arrival of Danish ships with slaves from the "Windward Coast." At "Bunce Island" today one can still find a cannon from a Danish ship dated 1780 and the grave of a Danish sea captain who died in 1783." http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/03.htm
Baylee's Gullah Fact: Religion
Since the slaves in South Carolina mostly came from Africa, they practiced Muslim beliefs. But many of them picked up on their white masters' traditions, like 'The Gullah became Christians, for instance, but their style of worship reflected their African heritage." (http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/05.htm) Do you think some masters might have FORCED their slaves to practice Catholic/Christian traditions?
Jinu's Gullah language facts
The Gullah language is what linguists call an English-based creole language.African "substrate languages" have altered the pronunciation of almost all the English words, influenced the grammar and sentence structure, and provided a sizable minority of the vocabulary.Copied by :http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/06.htm
Jinu's Gullah language facts
The Gullah language is what linguists call an English-based creole language.African "substrate languages" have altered the pronunciation of almost all the English words, influenced the grammar and sentence structure, and provided a sizable minority of the vocabulary.Copied by :http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/06.htm
Jinu's Gullah language facts
The Gullah language is what linguists call an English-based creole language.African "substrate languages" have altered the pronunciation of almost all the English words, influenced the grammar and sentence structure, and provided a sizable minority of the vocabulary.Copied by :http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/06.htm
Kelly's Bance Island fact.
The first English-speaking settlement in South Carolina was established on the coast in 1670. For the first thirty years the colonists had little success, but by about 1700 they discovered that rice, imported from Asia, grew well in the inland valley swamps of the Low Country.(http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/02.htm)
Kelly's Bance Island fact.
The first English-speaking settlement in South Carolina was established on the coast in 1670. For the first thirty years the colonists had little success, but by about 1700 they discovered that rice, imported from Asia, grew well in the inland valley swamps of the Low Country.(http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/02.htm)
Liana: Gullahs who Escaped Slavery
The Black Seminoles are a small offshoot of the Gullah who escaped from the rice plantations in South Carolina and Georgia. They built their own settlements on the Florida frontier, fought a series of wars to preserve their freedom, and were scattered across North America. Some Gullah slaves managed to escape from coastal South Carolina and Georgia south into the Florida peninsula.(http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/07.htm).
Taylors Bance Island Fact
Oswald's agents at Bance island dispatched several ships a year to Charlestown, each containing between 250 and 350 slaves and goods such as ivory and camwood (a red dyewood). Laurens advertised the slaves, then sold them at auction to local rice planters for a ten percent commission. He used the substantial earnings from the sale to buy locally produced Carolina rice which he sent to Oswald in London, together with the ivory and camwood, and often in the same ship that brought the slaves from Africa. [http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/03.htm]
louisiatto's interesting facts about slavery
1.At the turn of the last millennium, the world's largest slave market was run by Vikings in Dublin.
2.St. Patrick (circa 385–461), who in his youth had been enslaved in Ireland, was the first prominent historical figure to speak out against the institution of slavery.
2.St. Patrick (circa 385–461), who in his youth had been enslaved in Ireland, was the first prominent historical figure to speak out against the institution of slavery.
Alicia's Fact~ Bance Island Sierra Leone
Between 1790 and 1800 , Bance Island was one of the major slave trading operations on the West Coast of West Africa.
The profitable slave trade connection between Oswald and Laurens—between Sierra Leone and South Carolina—was significant enough to affect the course of American history(http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/03.htm).
The profitable slave trade connection between Oswald and Laurens—between Sierra Leone and South Carolina—was significant enough to affect the course of American history(http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/03.htm).
Konanator's awsome slave facts ...
Did you know
Between 7 million and 10 million slaves were brought to the New World from Africa?
The word slave comes from Slav?
Slavery came to an end in the British Empire on August 1st, 1834, when legislation passed in 1833 took effect. The legislation specified an apprenticeship scheme for the freed slaves that in some cases caused former slaves to be treated harsher than before, but the last of slavery in any form in the Empire came to an end by August 1st, 1838. The legislation also compensated slave-owners with £20,000,000; the freed slaves received nothing?
Between 7 million and 10 million slaves were brought to the New World from Africa?
The word slave comes from Slav?
Slavery came to an end in the British Empire on August 1st, 1834, when legislation passed in 1833 took effect. The legislation specified an apprenticeship scheme for the freed slaves that in some cases caused former slaves to be treated harsher than before, but the last of slavery in any form in the Empire came to an end by August 1st, 1838. The legislation also compensated slave-owners with £20,000,000; the freed slaves received nothing?
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Jinu's 2 interesting facts about slavery
1.
Despite many efforts to end slavery, it still exists today. Some 27million people worldwide are enslaved or worked as forced laborers. That's more people than at any other point in the history of the world.
2.
Victor(not Victor Choi), a young boy who escaped from slavery on a cocoa plantation, had never tasted chocolate. When asked what he would say those who buy the chocolate that he helped produce, he replied: "They buy something I suffer to make. They are eating my flesh."
@ Copied by iabolish.org
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Despite many efforts to end slavery, it still exists today. Some 27million people worldwide are enslaved or worked as forced laborers. That's more people than at any other point in the history of the world.
2.
Victor(not Victor Choi), a young boy who escaped from slavery on a cocoa plantation, had never tasted chocolate. When asked what he would say those who buy the chocolate that he helped produce, he replied: "They buy something I suffer to make. They are eating my flesh."
@ Copied by iabolish.org
*Also, go and find out more from; http://www.iabolish.org/slavery_today/products/index.html*
Sebastian's slavery fact
Did you know that a slaves diet consisted mainly of weekly rations of corn and fatty meat. Slaves often grew vegetables in small gardens just outside there quarters, out side there living area. The master sometimes lets slaves raise chickens and other amimals, to sell, trade, or to eat. Slaves on plantations close to the river added fish to there diet. Sometimes they were able to trap and hunt for small animals.
biblyography: www.strartfordhall.org/ed-slavery.html
Neena's 2 short Interesting Facts
1. that Vikings in Dublin were head of the world's largest slave market At the turn of the last millennium.
2. population in Africa was around 25 million. It may have been 46-53 million if slavery hadn't been instituted
2. population in Africa was around 25 million. It may have been 46-53 million if slavery hadn't been instituted
Robyn's Interesting Fact
By 1850, 92 percent of all American blacks were concentrated in the South, and of this group approximately 95 percent were slaves.
Mr. Cuddles owner's: BEST 2 Facts about slavery. =]
Many slaves in America refused to eat, wanting to die rather than toil through the regime of slavery. Subsequently, owners either forced their food down their throats, broke their teeth, or shoveled hot molten lead on their heads in an attempt to make them eat food
In some slave societies, black boy slaves often imitated the actions of the white slave owners or their sons on the slaves by whipping and flogging their younger friends.
In some slave societies, black boy slaves often imitated the actions of the white slave owners or their sons on the slaves by whipping and flogging their younger friends.
Alicia's Fact
In ancient Rome, many freed slaves were rich and some achieved high positions in government.
slavery by Albert
Some people who are slave can never see the sun of their life that is so sad for all these people.
slavery
Some people who are slave can never see the sun of their life that is so sad for all these people.
Liana's Interesting Fact About Slavery
Slavery ended in Western Europe in the 7th century when a British slave girl named Bathilde was sold to Clovis II, who was the King of Franks. Clovis fell in love with Bathilde and married her. When Clovis died, Bathilde, who was ruling for Clovis, made slavery illegal. After that, she was made a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
As anthropologist Leland Donald pointed out in his landmark 1997 work, Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, slaves played important roles as labourers, status symbols, and trade commodities throughout the Northwest Coast culture area. Slaves were sometimes captives taken in warfare and rendered into chattel, but many were also born into slavery. Chiefs were known to slaughter slaves in ritual displays of wealth, or in marking important community events, such as the raising of a heraldic pole.
Henry Laurens, who would later
succeed John Hancock as president
of the Continental Congress,
ran the largest slave trading house
in North America. In the 1750s
alone, his Charleston firm oversaw
the sale of more than 8,000
enslaved Africans. He donated
£50 to the endowment campaign.
Taylors Interesting Facts
According to estimates by anti-slavery groups, there were 27 million slaves in the world at the start of the 21st century, more than in any other historical period, despite modern international attention around slavery.WOWWW!!!!
Baylee's Interesting Fact
Did you know that in ancient China, some slaveowners appointed their male slaves as their heir if they had no natural offspring? That would be a big change, from slave to master. If that happened to me, I would have freed all the slaves on the plantation and help them escape from the country.
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