Slavery in America The History of Slavery in America From the beginnings of slavery in British North America around 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 enslaved Africans to the Virginia colony at Jamestown, nearly 240 years passed until the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution officially ended slavery in 1865. This section of the site is devoted to an in-depth investigation of those years from many angles; from looking at the lives and cultures of the oppressed before they were enslaved, to understanding the ways in which those enslaved survived and ultimately triumphed over the institution of slavery. The first of the original essays and lesson plans based on the latest scholarship on slavery in America is offered below. If you are interested in contributing to the Slaveryinamerica.org Web site, please join us. History Essays: Scholars and historians contribute original essays on the latest scholarship regarding the issues and events in the history of slavery in America. Creating Slavery Surviving Slavery
Civil Rights Movement: "Black Power" Era The impressive March on Washington in the summer of 1963 has been remembered as one of the great successes of the Civil Rights Movement, a glorious high point in which a quarter of a million people—black and white—gathered at the nation's capital to demonstrate for "freedom now." But for many African Americans, especially those living in inner-city ghettos who discovered that nonviolent boycotts and sit-ins did little to alter their daily lives, the great march of 1963 marked only the first stage of a new, more radical phase of the Civil Rights Movement. You probably just finished reading the first chapter of the Civil Rights Movement. (Hint, hint.) Isn't it incredible how much had been accomplished by civil rights activists from World War II to the 1963 March on Washington? Isn't it staggering just how much had been sacrificed, how high the stakes had been raised, and how widespread the movement had become? Let's quickly review some highlights. How can this be? Not exactly.
Legacies of British Slave-ownership Legacies of British Slave-ownership is the umbrella for two projects based at UCL tracing the impact of slave-ownership on the formation of modern Britain: the ESRC-funded Legacies of British Slave-ownership project, now complete, and the ESRC and AHRC-funded Structure and significance of British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833, running from 2013-2015. Colonial slavery shaped modern Britain and we all still live with its legacies. The slave-owners were one very important means by which the fruits of slavery were transmitted to metropolitan Britain. We believe that research and analysis of this group are key to understanding the extent and the limits of slavery's role in shaping British history and leaving lasting legacies that reach into the present. Full Project Overview Britain's forgotten slave-owners: BBC TV broadcast We've been consulting with the BBC on two new TV programmes entitled Britain's Forgotten Slave-owners. Full Details LBS Workshops 2015 Full Details LBS Project Book
Productions Numériques - Le Défi des bâtisseurs - Webproductions – Le Film, une histoire en 3D Plongez en 3D Relief au cœur de la grande aventure de l’art gothique. Un film de Marc Jampolsky. Qui sont les bâtisseurs de la cathédrale ? Quelle est leur histoire ? Le Défi des Bâtisseurs s’articule autour des destins mouvementés des cinq maîtres d’œuvre de la cathédrale, cinq « stars » de l’architecture gothique. Séquences de fiction, documents d’époque, entretiens avec des spécialistes et images de synthèse : l’histoire est contée « de l’intérieur », dans le décor du Strasbourg de l’époque et nous donne à voir toutes les étapes de la construction du plus prestigieux des chantiers du Moyen Âge. – Le Making-of du film Découvrez les secrets de fabrication de ce film événement réalisé intégralement en 3D Relief. – Le Webdoc, un jeu-documentaire Devenez « bâtisseurs » dans un webdoc dont VOUS êtes le héros ! – L’application mobile Une « Visite augmentée » : mixez Moyen Age et high tech dans notre app « néogothique ».
Lady Jane Grey: The Nine Day Queen Slavery: The Abolition of Slavery Project It may seem extraordinary today but, just less than 200 years ago, many people throughout Europe, Africa and the Americas saw nothing wrong in the idea that one human being could own another. The ‘owned' person or ‘slave' had no rights. In this section: You will find background information on the history of African enslavement: how the Transatlantic Slave Trade developed, British involvement in the Slave Trade, how a movement arose to try to abolish it and the opposition they faced. Picture Gallery What is Slavery? Africa Before Transatlantic Slavery Many Europeans thought that Africa's history was not important. The Arrival of European Traders During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, European traders started to get involved in the Slave Trade. The Middle Passage The Middle Passage refers to the part of the trade where Africans, densely packed onto ships, were transported across the Atlantic to the West Indies. The Pro-Slavery Lobby What was the Pro-Slavery or West India Lobby?
The secret history of women's football - BBC Newsbeat Mathenpoche - soutien scolaire en mathématiques Ce calcul vaut pour les élèves en série générale. Seules les notes obtenues en troisième sont comptées. Les points du contrôle continu : Retrouvez vos moyennes pour les 10 disciplines qui comptent : français, maths, LV1, SVT, Physique-Chimie, EPS, arts plastiques, éducation musicale, technologie, LV2. Cela vous fait l'équivalent de 10 notes sur 20, soit un total A sur 200. Les points des épreuves : Chaque épreuve (français, maths et histoire-géo) est notée sur 40 points, ainsi que l'épreuve orale d'histoire des arts. La note du Brevet : total A + total B = total sur 360. Il faut avoir 180 points pour avoir son Brevet, ainsi qu'une attestation pour la maîtrise du socle commun. Vous pouvez utiliser cette interface (réalisée par Emmanuel Ostenne) qui calcule automatiquement le total de points.
Maps of London's bus journeys Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images This article originally appeared in Business Insider. In 2013, Londoners took 2.4 billion bus journeys. They were prescribed 116 million items by doctors, and found themselves joined by more than 1,750,000 American tourists. Meanwhile, in one small, financial corner of the capital, the population, in every 24-hour period of the year, spiked from 222 residents to more than 127,000. These staggering statistics are the work of geographer James Cheshire and visual artist Oliver Uberti, who have merged to create a new series of maps depicting London as "the most data-heavy capital in the world." The maps and infographics are as diverse as the information they cover—highlighting, for example, the 2,580 mobile phones left in a single year at Heathrow Airport, and charting the 1.1 million phone calls the emergency services took in 2013. "Almost every journey taken in London leaves a digital trace in its wake," explain Cheshire and Uberti on their website.
How Thatcher gave Pol Pot a hand On 17 April, it is 25 years since Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. In the calendar of fanaticism, this was Year Zero; as many as two million people, a fifth of Cambodia's population, were to die as a consequence. To mark the anniversary, the evil of Pol Pot will be recalled, almost as a ritual act for voyeurs of the politically dark and inexplicable. Declassified United States government documents leave little doubt that the secret and illegal bombing of then neutral Cambodia by President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger between 1969 and 1973 caused such widespread death and devastation that it was critical in Pol Pot's drive for power. After two and a half years in power, the Khmer Rouge was overthrown by the Vietnamese on Christmas Day, 1978. To this end, the United Nations was abused by the powerful. In fact, the US had been secretly funding Pol Pot in exile since January 1980. I witnessed this. Until 1989, the British role in Cambodia remained secret.