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2) Slavery
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Global Viewpoints: Slavery examines contemporary issues regarding the bondage of individuals against their free will. The authors investigate how countries are contending with the historical legacy of slavery from generations past and explore the problems associated with slavery in the modern world. - p. 19.
3) Slavery
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Explores the history of slavery from 1619 to after the Civil War, and discusses the conditions slaves faced in North America. Highlights forms of resistance and the end of slavery in the United States. Includes color and black-and-white illustrations, sidebars, critical-thinking questions, a timeline, a glossary, and additional resources.
4) Slavery
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Offers opposing viewpoints regarding the issue of slavery in the United States, discussing its historical, social, and economic aspects.
6) Slavery
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Presents information regarding the slave trade and slavery in the United States, including background information, key events throughout the history of the United States, the aftermath of slavery and emancipation as it relates to African Americans and the United States, and important people and groups. Intended for fifth to eighth grade students.
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"In this illuminating text, the origins of the slave trade in Africa and the effects of the practice of slavery on the political and economic history of the United States are explored. King Cotton, the slave hierarchy on southern plantations, the relationship of the slaveholders and slaves, the slave codes that regulated the absolute control of slaves, the ensuing slave rebellions, and the abolitionist movement and those who spoke out against the...
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Learn about what life as a slave was really like.
When enslaved African peoples were first brought to the New World, estranged from their homeland, they adapted their native rituals, religions, customs, language, and arts to their new home. In doing so, they held onto their rich heritage while introducing aspects of it into the Americas.
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Traces the practice of slavery throughout the millennia, drawing on historical narratives, personal accounts, and visual sources to cover such examples as the ancient Sumerian practice of selling impoverished children into bondage and the oppression of ninth-century Zanj salt marsh workers.
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Presents the history of slavery, discussing what slavery is, the conditions that led to slavery, and slavery in the medieval era, in the New World, and in modern day times. Also examines the legacy of slavery. Includes illustrations, a timeline, biographical sketches, and further reading.