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	African American Odyssey: Slavery--The Peculiar Institution (Part 1)
		The European, American, and African slave traders engaged in the lucrative trade in humans, and the politicians and businessmen who supported them, did not intend to put into motion a chain of events that would motivate the captives and their descendants to fight for full citizenship in the United States of America.
		One of the preeminent African American collage artists, Romare Bearden was born in Charlotte on September 2, 1914, lived in Pittsburgh and Harlem, and died in New York on March 12, 1988.
		He advocated uncompromising resistance to slavery, contending that African Americans should fight "in the glorious and heavenly cause of freedom and of God to be delivered from the most wretched, abject and servile slavery.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html (1516 words)

	American Anti-Slavery Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The American Anti-Slavery Society (1833-1870) was founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
		Frederick Douglass was a key leader of the society and often spoke at its meetings.
		The American Anti-Slavery Society should not be confused with the American Anti-Slavery Group--a modern-day group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Anti-Slavery_Society (139 words)

	slavery
		Collamer, of Vermont, on slavery in the territories.
		Slavery and four years of war; a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part: 1861-1865, by Joseph Warren Keifer.
		Slavery in the ancient Near East : a comparative study of slavery in Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, and Palestine from middle of the third millennium to the end of the first millennium.
	www.uvm.edu /~kbridges/slavery.html (10683 words)

	Securing the Leg Irons:Restriction of Legal Rights for Slaves in Virginia and Maryland, 1625 - 1791 - The Early America ...
		American slavery, in comparison to that practice in the Mediterranean region or China, never attained the social development whereby slaves were incorporated into every sector of society.
		Slavery in the early Middle Ages of north-western Europe (coexisting with the legally somewhat less onerous serfdom) was more similar to the agrarian form familiar in the United States, but in England and France the practice faded away between c.
		American jurists fell heir to legal concepts from Roman jurisprudence by way of the judgments handed down during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Byzantine, Latin and Islamic periphery of Europe: Byzantium and its Latin Empire, the Ottoman Balkans and Kievian Russia.
	earlyamerica.com /review/winter96/slavery.html (7379 words)

	The African American : A Journey from Slavery to Freedom
		Slavery therefore became the ultimate test of disunity within the union of states which were already at odds in a democracy espousing freedom for its people.
		Slaves in the northern American region labored on small farms and as skilled and unskilled workers in factories and along the coast as shipbuilders, fishermen, craftsmen, and helpers of tradesmen.
		Olaudah Equiano's account of slavery brought to the eyes of the world community the use of children taken and used as slaves in a practice which was heretofore thought of as only the world of adults living as captives.
	www.cwpost.liunet.edu /cwis/cwp/library/aaslavry.htm (5524 words)

	Slavery,Slavery History and American Slavery
		By the eve of the American Revolution, slaves constituted about 40 percent of the population of the southern mainland colonies, with the highest concentration in South Carolina, where well over half the population were slaves.
		By the eve of the American Revolution, only about 20 percent of American slaves were African-born (although the concentration of Africans remained higher in South Carolina and Georgia), and after the outlawing of new slave imports in 1808, the proportion of African-born slaves became tiny.
		The natural growth of the slave population shaped a distinctive slavery in the American South and hastened the transition among slaves from African to African American.
	www.africanaonline.com /slavery_colonial_era.htm (672 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: American Slavery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Describing American Slavery as an "embarrassment" does not capture the real loss, the horror and suffering which was the very essence of American Slavery.
		If comparisons were made of American Slavery with slavery in the Islamic world, within the Ottoman Empire it would have and would become clear that American Slavery in comparison, was more than an "embarrassment" but one of the greatest 'shames' imposed on the world by America; a humanitarian catastrophe.
		The African Americans lost their original culture and language due to the ingenious European who kept the African slaves, who spoke the same languages and were from the same part of African continent, apart and separate from each other when they arrived in America as slaves.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140241507 (2115 words)

	Black History Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Slavery had been abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, but the white people of the South were determined to keep the Negro in his place, socially, politically, and economically.
		Petition of 1780 by slaves for the abolition of slavery in Connecticut.
		Petition of 1788 by slaves of New Haven for the abolition of slavery in Connecticut.
	www.blackhistorypages.com /Slavery (2544 words)

	Chronology on the History of Slavery 1619 to 1789
		Though the issue is complex, the unsuitability of Native Americans for the labor intensive agricultural practices, their susceptibility to European diseases, the proximity of avenues of escape for Native Americans, and the lucrative nature of the African slave trade led to a transition to an African based institution of slavery.
		The intermarriage of Africans and Native Americans was facilitated by the disproportionality of African male slaves to females (3 to 1) and the decimation of Native American males by disease, enslavement, and prolonged wars with the colonists.
		Slavery had existed as a human institution for centuries, but the slaves were usually captives taken in war or members of the lowest class in a society.
	www.innercity.org /holt/slavechron.html (17726 words)

	american slavery: 411essays.com- 411 essays, 411 research papers, 411 term papers help
		The history of fl slavery movement in the American society during the 19th century has become a common theme of debate and discussion between Americans for and against fl slavery movement.
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	Slavery Guide
		In the North, slavery was concentrated on Long Island and in southern Rhode Island and New Jersey, where most slaves were engaged in farming and stock raising for the West Indies or were household servants for the urban elite.
		Slavery provided the labor force for the Slavery played an indispensable role in the settlement and development of the New World.
		Slavery dates to prehistoric times and could be found in ancient Babylon, classical Greece and Rome, China, India, and Africa as well as in the New World.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /modules/slavery/index.cfm (784 words)

	Anti-Slavery Society
		The abolition of slavery became the policy of the Liberal Party (1840-48), the Free-Soil Party (1848-54) and the Republican Party (founded in 1854).
		After apologizing for his ignorance, and reminding the audience that slavery was a poor school for the human intellect and heart, he proceeded to narrate some of the facts in his own history as a slave, and in the course of his speech gave utterance to many noble thoughts and thrilling reflections.
		Slavery had stretched its dark wings of death over the land, the Church stood silently by—the priests prophesied falsely, and the people loved to have it so.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAantislavery.htm (3321 words)

	African American Slavery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		African American slavery (African-American slavery), the backbone of this nation’s economic rise to a world power, has been relegated to only a few pages in this country’s history books.
		African American slavery is not as distant as we think it to be.
		Slavery’s remnants are everywhere and this social plague will remain until this country’s citizens finally realize that our problem is the lack of understanding which can be corrected partially by education.
	www.iwasaslave.com /african-american-slavery.htm (851 words)

	History:Historians At Work: How Did American Slavery Begin?: Countryman on the Origins of Slavery
		On the contrary, it is quite possible that coming to Virginia ended the slavery that bound them when they boarded the Dutch vessel that took them there.
		In 1619 Virginia had no law of slavery and the arrivals became "servants." They went to work in tobacco fields alongside other servants who were white and had come from England.
		During the colonial era most North American slaves lived in the Chesapeake and the Carolina/Georgia low country, growing tobacco, rice, indigo, and sea island cotton on lowland plantations.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /history/series/hw/slavery/slaveryintro.htm (811 words)

	Abolition: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition)
		The American Anti-Slavery Society was established in 1833, but abolitionist sentiment antedated the republic.
		For example, the charter of Georgia prohibited slavery, and many of its settlers fought a losing battle against allowing it in the colony, Before independence, Quakers, most fl Christians, and other religious groups argued that slavery was incompatible with Christ's teaching.
		Although the economic center of slavery was in the South, northerners also held slaves, as did African Americans and Native Americans.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/african/afam005.html (1558 words)

	DOUGLASS : American Anti-Slavery Society, "Constitution," 4 December 1833 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Occasion: Adopted at the founding convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society held at Philadelphia, December 4, 1833.
		-- The objects of this Society are the entire abolition of Slavery in the United States.
		Platform of the American Anti-Slavery Society and its Auxiliaries (New York, 1855), pp.
	douglassarchives.org /aass_a58.htm (135 words)

	THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY
		The sentiments adopted at the founding meeting established the basic argument of the Society for the next three decades, namely, that slavery was illegal, if not under the Constitution (which Garrison had damned as "a covenant with hell"), then certainly under natural law.
		We have met together for the achievement of an enterprise, without which that of our fathers is incomplete; and which, for its magnitude, solemnity, and probable results upon the destiny of the world, as far transcends theirs as moral truth does physical force.
		We also maintain that there are, at the present time, the highest obligations resting upon the people of the free States to remove slavery by moral and political action, as prescribed in the Constitution of the United States.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/facts/democrac/18.htm (1317 words)

	Slavery
		An organization devoted to the abolition of contemporary forms of slavery, including debt bondage, false adoption (of children to work as domestic servants), servitude imposed by serfdom or caste, and domestic slavery.
		An effort to produce a comprehensive history of African-American religion, from the earliest African-European encounters along the west coast of Africa in the mid-fifteenth century to the present day, to be published by University of Chicago Press.
		Webpage to the museum of slavery on Curacao, formerly a Dutch sugar colony.
	www.vancouver.wsu.edu /fac/peabody/slave.htm (1854 words)

	Frederick Douglass Speech - The Hypocrisy of American Slavery
		My subject, then, fellow citizens, is "American Slavery." I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's point of view.
		Standing here, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked fler to me than on this Fourth of July.
		There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
	www.historyplace.com /speeches/douglass.htm (1611 words)

	African-American Odyssey
		Born in Slavery was made possible by a major gift from the Citigroup Foundation.
		The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.
		The goal of the Library's National Digital Library Program is to offer broad public access to a wide range of historical and cultural documents as a contribution to education and lifelong learning.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/aaohtml (895 words)

	Thomas Paine / American Slavery in America
		Editor's Note: Though Paine was not the first, as some have said, to advocate the abolition of slavery in America, he was certainly one of the earliest and most influential.
		The essay was written in 1774 and published March 8, 1775 when it appeared in the Pennsylvania Journal and the Weekly Advertiser.
		Certainly, one may, with as much reason and decency, plead for murder, robbery, lewdness and barbarity, as for this practice: They are not more contrary to the natural dictates of Conscience, and feeling of Humanity; nay, they are all comprehended in it.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /paine_slavery.html (1172 words)

	USCWC -- Abolition and Slavery
		Gottlieb Mittelberger, The Passage of Indentured Servants (1750)
		Noah's Curse and the Southern Defense of Slavery
		Slavery and the Civil War, as Viewed by the Churches of God
	www.cwc.lsu.edu /cwc/links/slave.htm (428 words)

	A Bio. of America: Slavery - Web
		The text of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, with a biography of Douglass and the preface by William Lloyd Garrison.
		Documents and incidents from the history of slavery, including a description of Nat Turner's story and confessions with a scanned cover of the original papers.
		The text of Calhoun's speech, Slavery is a Positive Good.
	www.learner.org /biographyofamerica/prog09/web (525 words)

	American Slave Narratives
		These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms.
		What makes the WPA narratives so rich is that they capture the very voices of American slavery, revealing the texture of life as it was experienced and remembered.
		Read together, they offer a sweeping composite view of slavery in North America, allowing us to explore some of the most compelling themes of nineteenth-century slavery, including labor, resistance and flight, family life, relations with masters, and religious belief.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html (222 words)

	Encyclopedia Smithsonian:American Slavery
		Information or research assistance regarding American Slavery is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution.
		A scholarly listserv for matters relating to the history of slavery, the slave trade, abolition and emancipation.
		This University of Virginia project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
	www.si.edu /resource/faq/nmah/slavery.htm (520 words)

	American Experience \| The Time of the Lincolns \| Slavery and Freedom
		Mary Lincoln witnessed the struggles of African Americans first hand, through her friendship with former slave Elizabeth Keckley.
		All Americans were touched by the "peculiar institution" in some way, even the residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
		Tour a South Carolina slave cabin, and witness the conditions of slavery.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/lincolns/slavery (111 words)

	iAbolish -- Web Portal of the American Anti-Slavery Group
		Join American activists and Sudanese leaders at Columbia University on October 2nd in a conference to end the genocide in Sudan - activist workshops will be offered.
		Learn more about 21st-century slavery: by country, slave narratives, and a look at the products of slavery.
		Last year, Nonuv was rescued from the Bangkok brothel and has returned to Cambodia where she works at a local non-profit with 16 other survivors of sex slavery.
	www.iabolish.com (321 words)

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