Lincoln's Cottage in DC tackles modern slavery - Superior Telegram
Posted by admin / Under Atlantic Slave TradeLincoln's Cottage in DC tackles modern slavery Superior Telegram The house where President Abraham Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation some 150 years ago is confronting the reality that more people are held in modern-day slavery than at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. FILE - In this Jam. |
Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 01:38:06 PM
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Senegal's scenic island exposes horrors of slave trade - Local 10
Posted by admin / Under Atlantic Slave TradeSenegal's scenic island exposes horrors of slave trade Local 10 Known as Senegambia at the time and located at the westernmost point in West Africa, Goree Island used to serve as a strategic trading post for the transatlantic slave trade -- African men, women and children were held and traded here before being ... |
Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 01:38:06 PM
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Lincoln's Cottage tackles modern slavery - The Tennessean
Posted by admin / Under Atlantic Slave TradeLincoln's Cottage tackles modern slavery The Tennessean Lincoln's Cottage is confronting the reality that more people are held in modern-day slavery than at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. / Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press Associated Press WASHINGTON — The house where President Abraham ... |
Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 01:38:06 PM
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'Cash Crop' is an artistic rendering of the slave trade's grim reality - Charlotte Observer
Posted by admin / Under Atlantic Slave Trade'Cash Crop' is an artistic rendering of the slave trade's grim reality Charlotte Observer This ambitious project by Stephen Hayes, a young artist living in Atlanta, combines a sweeping array of materials and techniques with a muted palette to depict the suffering and humiliation of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. |
Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 01:38:06 PM
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Her Father's Daughter - Memoir of Growing Up in Freetown - AllAfrica.com
Posted by admin / Under Atlantic Slave TradeHer Father's Daughter - Memoir of Growing Up in Freetown AllAfrica.com Is it a mental throwback to the great uncertainties of the Atlantic slave trade period, when kidnappings and disappearances through the medium of rivers and seas were so common in that region, as one scholar has suggested? Through the Calabash is, ... |
Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 01:38:06 PM
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Proposed slavery museum leaves a trail of questions - Lincoln Journal Star
Posted by admin / Under Atlantic Slave TradeProposed slavery museum leaves a trail of questions Lincoln Journal Star They planned interactive exhibits, with a section on the trans-Atlantic slave trade, one on the slave experience in the United States, and one on life after emancipation. There was nothing else like it in the United States. But some people began asking ... |
Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 01:38:06 PM
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Brown to recognize slave-trading roots - WRNI
Posted by admin / Under Atlantic Slave TradeBrown to recognize slave-trading roots WRNI The committee found that 30 of Brown's founding members owned or captained slave ships. At the time of the university's founding in 1764, Rhode Island served as a northern hub for the trans-Atlantic slave trade, responsible over a century's time for ... |
Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 01:38:06 PM
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Underground Railroad Museum - USA TODAY
Posted by admin / Under Atlantic Slave TradeUnderground Railroad Museum USA TODAY In the Commemoration Room, high school students from Dayton's Horizon Science Academy stand in the exhibit that depicts the trans-Atlantic slave trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped across the Atlantic to the New World. |
Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 01:38:06 PM
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Creation of National Slavery Museum in doubt - Florida Courier
Posted by admin / Under Atlantic Slave TradeCreation of National Slavery Museum in doubt Florida Courier Yet Liverpool, England has operated an impressive International Slavery Museum since 2007. “The transatlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history,” Museum Director David Fleming says on its Web site. “And yet the story of the mass ... |
Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 01:38:06 PM
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Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions now opens registration for ... - News-Medical.net
Posted by admin / Under Atlantic Slave TradeHopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions now opens registration for ... News-Medical.net The theme of ICHAD 2012 is "The Great Scattering: Connecting the Dots between Slavery and Contemporary Health in the African Diaspora." Today there are approximately 160 million black descendants of the trans Atlantic slave trade living throughout the ... |
Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 01:38:06 PM
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