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- Text: The reason behind this was that this allowed the whites to make an enormous amount of money. If you had slaves, you didn’t have to pay them, because you owned them. They were your property just the same as a dining table or bed. As well as money, it gave the slave owners power.
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- Text: ...o way back and it’s an old English family in Jamaica and I found out that they had, talking about diversity, that they had slaves through the days of slavery JUDD: Ohh they owned slaves? BUCKRIDGE: Yes, so I come from a family that owns slaves and some members are probab...
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- Text: ...rmy general Gordon Granger announcing federal orders in the city of Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, proclaiming that all slaves in Texas were now free.Although the Emancipation Proclamation had formally freed them almost two and a half years earlier and the American Civil War had largel...
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- Text: ...t the settlement of 1850 would finally produce more disastrous consequences than any thing which ever occurred. The fugitive slave clause in the constitution was respected before that period. Now, it is in operation & it has been so in effort ever since that celebrated settlement. The e...
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- Text: ...Brunner, reputed chief aide to Adolf Eichmann, was held responsible for the deportation to death and slave labor camps of at least 128,500 Jews from Nazi-occupied territories. Eichmann, architect of the Nazis' "Final Solution" for the Jews, was captured in Argentina by Israel...
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- Text: ...gh the war, and the rest fled to the mountains to avoid slavery. Then the Spaniards had the problem of who would be their slaves. Beginning in the 1500s, they showed how barbaric and criminal they were. They began to ravage the African lands, kidnapping our Yoruba brothers and sisters ...
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- Text: ...st, doing what top dogs ought to do. Another film by Spielberg is coming out: "Amistad." Amistad was the name of a slave ship that was bringing slaves from Africa around 1839, and they mutinied, these slaves. They killed the captain and several of the crew, and t...
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- Text: ...and academic lectures, students will visit the Cape of Good Hope, Boulders National Park, the District Six Museum, the lziko Slave Museum, Robben Island where Nelson Mandela wa s imprisoned, and visit the Apartheid Museum, Hector Peterson Memorial and the Nelson Mandela House in Johannesbur...
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- Text: ...e could remove statues from plinths and place them at our height, or lower. We could place other figures around them, of the slaves they traded or controlled; show the massacres, the conflicts, the long hidden stories. We could create virtual reality resets, where you might look at a monume...
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- Text: ...e & also for the sake of the Church in which Thou knows there has been many & still is to whom the Cause of the poor slave has felt & is felt very near & dear & prepared like Thyself to make considerable sacrifice for their freedom And count it a favour that Thou belongs...
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- Text: ...aylor , son of Red Taylor , high-spirited but tender and future hei r to Springwood Plan tation . And then there is Jay, the slave buck, rug ged but quick-witted and up for sale. A fateful bond form s between these two men, a bond of trust and respect set in a time of violence and bigotry ....
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- Text: ...and academic lectures, students will visit the Cape of Good Hope, Boulders National Park, the District Six Museum, the lziko Slave Museum, Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, and visit the Apartheid Museum, Hector Peterson Memoria l and the Nelson Mandela House in Johannesbur...
