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Dear Beth ,
thank you for the fantastic course,
My homework is attached below
Elizabeth
Q5. How did slavery affect culture in a country of your choice ?
Slavery, particularly affected African culture, as many homes were destroyed and millions of people were forcibly taken from Africa. This means that trading vessels would sell from Europe with manufactured goods to the West Coast of Africa, where they filled the cargo hold up with Africans, who were usually taken unwillingly , kidnapped, or enslaved through warfare. In total about 20 million people were enslaved, many from aboriginal tribes or communities.
Many tribes of cultural possessions may have been lost due to the slave trade: pieces of art, ancient writings or rituals, and even family heirlooms may have gone missing, this would’ve hindered understanding of all the tribes heritages. However, some people may say that slavery enabled diversity of culture all over the world; slavery also destroyed many cultures as well as the population of Africa.
Next, some people would also say that if it were not for slavery, Africans would not be in America, and there would not be such a diversity of culture in America or Africa. However, many Africans were forced to be Christians and forget their original beliefs they had developed back in their homeland .The slave trade also tore apart cultures as well establishing diversity.
Another point is that even after slavery ended some white people settled in Africa and so there was still a lot of racism against African people as it was commonly thought that Africans were closely related with monkeys , their culture was shunned and so there were barely any written records about their culture.
In conclusion, slavery had a negative effect on African culture, led to a long term, impoverishment of Africa, and intensified poverty in normal African society.
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Dear Beth ,
Thank you for the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious lesson,
Elizabeth
<u> Slavery did not end in 1865, it evolved</u>
I agree with this statement as instead of slavery the US faces a huge amount of mass incarceration. For the past 30 years , the speaker of this quote , lawyer and social activist Bryan Stevenson has been defending wrongly convicted death row prisoners. Even after slavery “ended” a huge amount of racism still exists.
There have been more than 4000 victims of lynching in US history. The USA’s history is stained with racial inequality. “Slavery didn’t end in 1865, it just evolved, it turned into decades of terrorism, violence and lynching.” Millions of black families fled from their homes to places, like Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, or Boston, not as immigrants, looking for better jobs, but as refugees from the South.
It is also important to acknowledge the legacy of enslavement in the present criminal justice system. About one and three black men are in prison in the USA, on probation or on parole, the statistics say that about every one in three black males born today will be imprisoned, at least one time in their life.
This is mainly because of the misguided War on Drugs, started by President Richard Nixon which has led to lifelong, unjust prison sentences for small crimes such as owning Crack cocaine leading to mass incarceration in the US.
At the moment , the USA only makes up 5% of the world’s population yet 20% of the worlds’ prison population. This only goes to show , need to end mass incarceration .
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Dear Beth
Thank you for the wonderful lesson,
here is my homework,
Elizabeth
Just as you and other people see the modern world in different ways, different people may see the past differently. Therefore a diverse range of historical sources is ideal for a better understanding of the past . However , in the past , most written accounts were by rich ,white men ; There were barely any accounts written by women ,the poor or slaves.
These historical sources providing historians with new perspectives are extremely valuable , such as slave accounts , enslaved people’s art, music and cooking ,all pieces of evidence shunned at the time ; some pieces of evidence , however, may be untruthful ,due to the authors skating over the horrible things they did . Historians require access to many different sources to ensure that they have a clearer understanding of what happened in the past .
An example of this could be in the slave trade , the people who weren’t enslaved, who could provide information about what their life was like without slavery, which historians can then compare with the slave narratives or accounts of slaves or ex slaves – comparing the differences between the two. Different accounts can show a fuller picture of what it was like and what people believed then .
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Dear Beth ,
Thanks for the awesome lesson , here is my homework,
Elizabeth
Historians may have to overcome many problems to give a straight-forward account of past events. They have to be careful of letting their own personal experiences, cultural backgrounds, or their own biased viewpoints cloud their work.The job of a historian is to uncover cultures and the heritage or culture of the past , this could be done in a variety of ways such as interviewing people , examining artwork , reading slave or ex slave records,and even listening to songs sung by or composed by slaves such as Old Black Joe .Slaves also sung the songs like “Steal Away” when they were planning on escaping soon. “Swing low, Sweet Chariot” was sung to let slaves know that they would be escaping soon. This was Harriet Tubman’s favourite song.
However, white men in power feared that black literacy would prove a threat to the slave system – which relied on slaves’ dependence on masters – whites in many states introduced laws forbidding slaves to learn to read or write and making it a crime for others to teach them.The slaves themselves often suffered severe punishment for the crime of literacy, from savage beatings to the amputation of fingers and toes. Although some masters did teach their slaves to read as a way to Christianize them, most slave owners believed that teaching such skills was useless and unworthy of their time .This way there were not many slave accounts or records and the only way to record songs was by word of mouth.
Another problem is that slaves may not have even had access to materials such as clay ,paper or ink : even if any of the slaves were able to make some art many pieces of art may have been lost in time ,destroyed or damaged. This way, scarcely anything would be found . Therefore historians may have many problems to overcome to learn about slavery.
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Hi, my name is Ethan
I was born in 2015, the year of the horse. And I want to tell you from near the end of year 2 to the end of may in year 3 what happened
I was in school-in year 2 when the registers were finished. We went outside the fire assembly point to find out our new teachers in our new year group. My teachers were Mrs. Story and Mr. Hill but they were not in so we had Mr. Castle. My new class was Hawking class and we got in there and we worked based on Stephen Hawking. When it was near sack time everybody went to their old class. My class did some maths then went out to play. At September we move up 👆one year and did different topics . In March the sixteenth mr.Hill had an operation on his foot so we had Mr Castle on Thursdays and Fridays and Mrs Story. On May the twelfth Mr hill was back. Mr Hill kept on saying banana benders you send them, we bend them at the phone when it rings since he is the funniest teacher in the school but mrs story doesn’t.
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Dear Beth ,
Thank you for the fabulous lesson
Elizabeth
Since 1776, labour from enslaved Africans was vital for American agriculture and economic progress, however, in the early 18,000 antislavery sentiment crew, as more and more people in power began to acknowledge how immoral slavery was. Northern states slowly began to abolish slavery, well, politicians such as Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens for abolition of slavery. Although this was assisted by the southern states, who relied on the same labour for such large profits. This clash of ideas would eventually lead to the nearly four year long civil war.
During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation proclamation, which declared slaves to be free in 1863, and he offered seven states the entry into the union if they also abolished slavery; even after the war, seven states did not readily accept this, making the reconstruction of the US challenging .
The 13th amendment was proposed in 1864 to declare slavery prohibited, and as there were no southern states present, it was debated by Congress until 1865, when the amendment was passed and was slowly ratified by the other 36 states “the ammunition states that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime player of the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction”
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Dear Beth,
Sorry my homework is late ,
Elizabeth
<u><b>John brown</b></u>
John Brown was an American abolitionist leader born in Torrington Connecticut in the US on the 9th of May 1800 .He is famous for taking arms in bleeding Kansas, John Brown was eventually captured and executed after a failed slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry , Just before the American Civil War.
He preached that a non-violent solution was not possible. In Ohio 1812 John Brown met a slave owner for the first time and he actually liked him, he was a Marshall who ran the town and at a dinner party, he expresses how great he thinks John is ,who is only 12,and yet he drove his fathers cattle to Ohio by himself, then he tells other guests about John’s adventures and hardship such as losing his mother at the age of eight
There he meets an enslaved boy about his age, he knows and save slavery is bad and is horrified when after the dinner party the Marshall starts beating his new friend that is when John started thinking that slavery is a sin to God and started learning the Bible .
At the age of 16 he wanted to become a minister. But travelled east to study at college , but he found himself unequal to it with his bad eyesight and so went back to Ohio and started his own Tannery with a room to hide slaves in. Later he married Dianatha Lush and had seven children with her. Then he moved to Pennsylvania and set up another Tannery helping about 2,500 slaves escape to Canada. Then misfortune struck ,in 1832 his four-year-old son and wife died and he sent his five children to a neighbour.The following year he married again to Mary Ann Brown .
Despite his involvement in the underground railroad;he still felt that he had not done enough to stop Slavery . In 1858 she took up arms in to defend Kansas and the following year he took part in a raid at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in which she was captured and hanged.
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Dear Beth,
Thank you for the marvellous lesson about revolutions
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11oM4-urseix3AHi2vQfrYMhLjvYF-ogEhdsvoMmLgSU/edit?usp=sharing
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Once there was a boy who liked helping out with things for example: going shopping,helping old people crossing the road, taking out the garbage, throwing away litter in the bin, helping classmates, searching for missing things, tidying up and so much other stuff. So far he has gone shopping,36 times helping old people crossing the road, 15 times taking out the garbage, 19 times throwing away litter in the bin, 18 times helping classmates, 12 times searching for missing things, 15 times tidying up and doing so much other stuff 26 times. One day when tidy up for the 16th time he saw garbage to take out and an old lady about to cross the road so he rushed tidying up,zoomed past the garbage and managed to grab in stuff the garbage in the garbage bin and made it in time to help the old lady crossing the road. For the people in the car she looked like a witch but for the boy it looked like a normal woman. When he was running back he noticed he can run as fast and he wants to.
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