Novel Study of The Glory Field
> 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
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.
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.
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
[citation: Remembering jim crow: presented by american radio works]
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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
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.
