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BOOKS ABOUT LABOR AND UNIONS
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Labor History Posters: Slavery, pg 4/4
for the social studies and literature classrooms, homeschoolers, & office decor.
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social studies > Images of Labor 1 | Labor History 2 | 3 | 4 slavery
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Slavery, a form of forced labor in which people are considered to be, or treated as, the property of others. Slaves, who are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, are deprived of
- the right to leave,
- the right to refuse to work, or
- to receive compensation, like wages.
Slavery, which has existed in one form or another through all of recorded human history:
- ancient Greece - Aesop was a slave.
- as reported in the Biblical Book of Exodus with Moses leading the Israelite slaves out of ancient Egypt,
- ancient Rome,
- Medieval Europe,
- enslavement of indignious people to mine silver in South America
- the transatlantic slave trade, beginning in the mid-1400s, when Europeans began to capture people from Africa's western and southern lands. These traders then hearded them onto ships bound for the Americas. No one is sure how many Africans were involved in the slave trade – estimates range from 10 million to 28 million.
- Today - Slavery in Mauritania is an entrenched phenomenon that the national government has repeatedly tried to abolish, banning the practice in 1905, 1981, and August 2007.
The Slave Trade, 1440 to 1800s - “Africa, like many other parts of the world, had a long tradition of slavery. But the story changed significantly in the mid-1400s, when Europeans began to capture people from Africa's western and southern lands. These traders then hearded them onto ships bound for the Americas. No one is sure how many Africans were involved in the slave trade – estimates range from 10 million to 28 million. This trade continued even after Europe and the U.S. both banned the importation of African slaves. Some say the slave trade really only stopped at the end of the 19th century.” ...
• Black History posters
• “I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.” Joseph Campbell
• “I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. ~ Lucretia Mott
• “A great fortune is a great slavery.” ~ Seneca
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Bartolome de las Casas
b. 8-24-1484; Seville, Spain
d. 7-17-1566; Madrid
Bartolome de las Casas, Dominican priest and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas came to the defense of the indigenous peoples after witnessing the slavery, torture and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists.
“There were 60,000 people living on this island [when I arrived in 1508], including the Indians; so that from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery and the mines. Who in future generations will believe this?” • In Defense of the Indians: The Defense of the Most Reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolome de las Casas, of the Order of Preachers, Late Bishop of Chiapa
• more Notable Historians
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Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl
History Through Literature
Art Print
sorry, no longer available
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -
Harriet Jacobs
b. 1813; Edenton, NC
d. 3-7-1897; Washington, DC
Harriet Jacobs spent seven years hiding in a crawl space to avoid the advances of her owner and still be close enough to hear the voices of her children, before escaping North. She wrote her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl, to awaken Northern women to the abuses done to female slaves.
Quote Appearing on This Print:
“The bill of sale!? Those words struck me like a blow. So I was sold at last! A human being sold in the free city of New York!... I well know the value of that bit of paper, but much as I love freedom, I do not like to look upon it. I am deeply grateful to the generous friend who procured it, but I despise the miscreant who demanded payment for what never rightfully belonged to him or his.”
The quote refers to Cornelia Willis, her employer and friend, buying her freedom for $300 in 1852.
• History Through Literature posters
• women author posters
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Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (Keckly)
b. February 1818; Virginia
d. May 1907; Washington, DC
A former slave who became a successful seamstress, Elizabeth Keckley, authored her autobiography, Behind the Scenes or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House, about her time as Mary Todd Lincoln's personal modiste and confidante.
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Frances “Fanny” Wright
b. 9-6-1795; Dundee, Scotland
d. 12-13-1852; Cincinnati, OH after falling on icy stairs.
Frances “Fanny” Wright was a lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer.
As an experiment in utopian ideals she founded the Nashoba Commune (near Memphis, TN) in 1825, the same year she became a US citizen. The commune was a test project to educated and emanicpate slaves were no slaveholders would lose money for freeing slaves. The venture failed.
• Fanny Wright: Rebel in America
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