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Topic: Freed slaves


  
  Reparations for Afro Americans
Slaves, who were of little use in the Upper South, were not set free but sold to plantations in the Lower South.
Slaves born in Virginia, Maryland or South Carolina died in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.
Slaves who revolted were depicted as beasts who could not be freed because they would endanger society.
www.alternativeinsight.com /Reparations-Slavery.html   (5685 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Much like neighbouring Liberia, it was founded by freed slaves, who in 1791 founded the capital, Freetown.
In 1806, Freetown became a British Protectorate (as did the remainder of the country in 1896), reaching independence in 1961.
Europeans used the land as a source for slaves, but in 1787 Freetown was established as a city for former slaves living in London.
encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Sierra_Leone   (1291 words)

  
 Bible Query from Deuteronomy
It was the year the fields were to be unplowed, debts cancelled, and slaves freed.
The only exception was Hebrew slaves who loved their masters and had voluntarily chosen to be their slaves for life.
If the master later did destroy their eye or knock out their tooth, accidentally, the slave had the right to go free, but they were not forced to exercise that right.
www.muslimhope.com /BibleAnswers/dt.htm   (15488 words)

  
 Dorothy Day's Lessons for the Transformation of Work - The Transformation of Work
A century ago, the world of work, and of jobs within that world, had barely evolved from the cottage-industry descendants of the medieval guild systems, with the surplus labor pools largely constituted by the desperately indigent, indentured servants, and newly-freed slaves.
[T]he newly freed slaves who started their lives of freedom with no property, no money, no education, and usually no vocation other than farming were unable to use...market functions to bargain for higher wages and better living and working conditions.
As a consequence, the originally freed slaves remained economically deprived and their descendants reaped "a disproportionately small share of society's bounty as each successive generation passe[d] along its inherited economic disadvantage to the next."
www.catholicworker.com /hllj13.htm   (5322 words)

  
 Cyndi's List - CD-ROMs
Includes Louisiana Slave Database 1719-1820, Louisiana Free Database 1720-1820, a compilation of Louisiana censuses from 1699 through 1860, and various New Orleans, Pensacola, and Mobile censuses from 1784 to 1850.
The Freedman's Bank was created to assist newly freed slaves during and after the Civil War.
Contains the records of 27,233 transatlantic slave ship voyages made between 1595 and 1866 from all over Europe.
www.cyndislist.com /cd-roms.htm   (3682 words)

  
 Detroit Newspapers in Education
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The West African country of Liberia was set up in the early 1800s as a place where freed American slaves could go if they wished to return to Africa.
Write a second sentence explaining its important in the U.S. Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia, gets its name from James Monroe, who was U.S. president when Liberia was set up as an African home for freed slaves.
www.nieonline.com /detroit/plus.cfm?lessondate=20051128   (952 words)

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