Program on Skill Development and Livelihood Options by Skill Share International for member NGOs of ATSEC India for program sustainability. National level workshop on training of facilitators on right based approach (in Dehradun) for their state partners, for better impact. Exposure visit organized by ATSEC India for its member organizations to several South Asian countries, […]
Harriet Tubman was born between 1819 and 1820 near Buck town in Maryland. The actual date that she was born is not well known since her parents were slaves and there were no proper records that were kept for children that were born by slaves. Despite her being born and brought up in slavery, she […]
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Get startedThe Industrial Revolution brought an immense amount of beneficial goods especially in Britain. It started in 1750 and brought goods such as new textiles and even different sources of energy including coal which could power factories and trains. Factory owners would make a huge profit as a result. In the making of this immense amount […]
Roughly three hundred years ago, more than twelve million Africans were stolen from their country and robbed of their jewels with the intentions of being enslaved in the New World. The New World consisted of the Americas and the Caribbean. During the tracherous journey, only about ten million survived. Slaves were forced onto ships to […]
All over the globe human trafficking has been in existence for thousands of years, it is the act of an illegal practices that transports men, women, and children from one country or area to another. (Rutgers University Campus Coalition Against Trafficking) Human trafficking is not only an issue in the United States, but also all […]
After the Revolutionary War, the young United States of America was looking to change its ways. As a now independent Nation, they looked to set their own identity. One of the things they did was end what was known as the African Slave Trade in 1807. The end of the African Slave Trade was unknowingly […]
Civil rights was mostly in the years 1950s and 1960s. Almost everything started during Reconstruction. Slavery has not needed discrimination against black people. Slavery Banned in the North is one of the important topics there is. Their is also Abolish Slavery. Black to gain equal rights under the law of the United States, officially try […]
Anti-slavery is when a person or group are opposed to the act of slavery. Abolition is the abolishment or the act of putting an end to slavery altogether and all at once. There were people and groups that had different ideas about what was the most effective way to end slavery. This is the reason […]
Slavery has played various roles in different societies all over the world, but slavery was never as abused and manipulated as it was in America. Slavery has been a part of societies even before it came to America, but American colonization and greed for profit took priority over human rights. Slavery was different for every […]
Europeans saw the tribal lifestyles lived by the Africans in the 16th century. Regardless of the criticisms of Europeans toward the African civilization, Africans were already established as much as Europeans were. Most African villages were under a communal system in which everyone was under the impression that they shared their personal belongings and possessions […]
After the Revolutionary War the young United States of America was looking to change its ways. As a now independent Nation they looked to set their own identity. One of the things they did was in 1807 they ended what was known as the African Slave Trade. The end of the African Slave Trade was […]
Slavery was not a new concept when the first slaves arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. In fact, slavery was common practice throughout the history of the world, although in the past it more closely resembled indentured servitude. The South’s voracity and dependence on labor would transform slavery into an unprecedented institution. Abolitionists in the […]
In the United States there were one million three hundred thousand black slaves in the middle of the second decade of the nineteenth century, out of a total of eight and a half million inhabitants. Only about two hundred thousand blacks were free. The slaves did not enjoy any civil right in the nation that […]
Slavery in the South Slavery is a huge part of the American history. Colonist first started out enslaving Native Americans. The problem with enslaving Native Americans was that they knew the area very well to which they could escape. At the same time, they also relied on indentured servants from Europe. A lot of poor […]
The right to education was one that had to be earned for blacks in the United States of America. Events such as Brown vs. Board of Education, the Little Rock Nine, and Ruby Bridges helped advance the right of black students to receive an education alongside their white counterparts. Yet nearly a century prior, during […]
With the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the new opportunities were endless, and everyone wanted their share of the riches. Spain, England, Portugal all wanted pieces of the New World and were willing to pay the ultimate price in search of gold and glory. Across Europe, Africa, and most of […]
Slavery this is a system that was made to sell or buy people to holding them at the workplace through force in most places without paying, they were also used for sexual purposes and they don’t have a choice to do what they want or make any decisions because they were a property of slaveholders. […]
Three Effective Ways that Slaves Escaped Slavery Slavery have been a great part of history. The first slaves to arrive in North America came in 1619 to Virginia. The slaves were known to be African, and they were used for long term labor mostly in the southern regions of the United States. They were miss […]
Colonial Era of Slavery Slavery has been a huge historical landmark of the early colonial era of American society and culture. It can be said that slavery didnt start in the Americas but had a very influential impact on early colonialism that would take place in the early new age of discovery. While America was […]
Slavery refers to a condition in which individuals are owned by others, who control where they live and at what they work. Near two million slaves were conveyed to the American South from African and the West Non mainstream players amid the Atlantic slave exchange. The American South represented over 20% African Americans. One of […]
Kate Clifford Larson is an author of three historical biographies. These biographies are: Rosemary, The Hidden Kennedy Daughter (2015); Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero (2003); and The Assassinr’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln (2008). She has a doctorate in History at the University […]
Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People and Her Struggle for Freedom The period of history leading up to the Civil War was one of turmoil and immense change- politically, socially, and economically- in the United States. With the war on the brink, many influential people arose during this time of conflict to take a […]
Harriet Tubman was an abolishment and political activist. She is known for beginning the underground railroad which provided fugitive slaves with food, and a bed. She made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom and not once did she lose a passenger. Araminta Ross was born a slave in Maryland […]
Harriet Tubman was a very accomplished woman with many great aspects under her belt. Using the underground railroad Harrietr’s greatest accomplishment will bring down slavery freeing over 300 slaves. This meant the north aided in the escape of the slaves from the south, as a result, this made the south angrier leading to the civil […]
Harriet Tubman The person we know as Harriet Tubman is well known in history. Many do not know her real name is Araminta Minty Ross given to her by her parents, Harriet Green and Benjamin Ross. Araminta was born in 1820 in Maryland, she was born to enslaved african americans and had grown up on […]
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. this is a quote by Harriet Tubman. Early life for Harriet Tubman was horrible because she was born a SLAVE. Now how did Harriet tubman change […]
In this excerpt from Frederick Douglass autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), Douglass, a runaway slave, recounts his journey to freedom and describes the feelings and hardships that come with the life of a runaway slave. He illustrates this by informing the reader of his victory in gaining freedom, detailing his lonely […]
In the 1700s, African Americans were thought of as property of their owners and they had no control over their own life. They were victims of emotional and physical abuse. The stories about Frederick Douglass and Solomon Northup show loneliness, slavery and the lack of power African people had in such a racist society back […]
Around 1818, at Talbot County Maryland, a man named Frederick Bailey (mother’s name) was conceived from Native American, African, and European ancestors. He was isolated from his mom as a newborn child and moved with his maternal grandmother. At six years old he was put into work as a slave at the Wye House plantation. […]
Frederick Douglass was a African American who was born in February 1818. He had been taken from his mother, sisters, & brother at a young age, was forced into slavery, and was treated harshly. Frederick was born in February 1818. He never had a childhood, because he was taken away from his mother, four sisters, […]
