White & Black Slavery
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:56 amHere at 
we like to discuss many different subjects.
Slavery is a delicate subject and one that should be discussed until the end of time, to ensure that it never happens again.
Although it is (in some parts of the world) still going on, I think mostly, when we think of the slave market, we think of Africa and the deep South of America.
Here below, you will find a selection of website links and videos offering examples of slavery, in it's many forms.
Some are diaries written by the slaves themselves, like Harriet Jacobs.
Born into slavery in North Carolina in 1813, Harriet Jacobs was taught to read and write by the woman who owned her. But when her owner died, young Jacobs was left to a relative who treated her far worse. When she was a teenager, her master made sexual advances on her, and finally one night in 1835 she attempted to escape.
The runaway didn’t get far, and wound up hiding in a small attic space above the house of her grandmother, who had been set free by her master some years earlier. Incredibly, Jacobs spent seven years in hiding, and health problems caused by her constant confinement led her family to find a sea captain who would smuggle her north.
Jacobs found a job as a domestic servant in New York, but life in freedom was not without dangers. There was a fear that slave catchers, empowered by the Fugitive Slave Law, might track her down. She eventually moved on to Massachusetts, and in 1862, under the pen name Linda Brent, published a memoir, Incidents in the Live of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. You can read the whole book, online for free at...
http://history1800s.about.com/od/slaver ... atives.htm
Daily Life on a Colonial Plantation, 1709-11
He wrote his diary in a secret code - an archaic form of shorthand known only to the most educated of his day. Because it was encoded, he was confident that no one would ever read his revealing portrait of the world he lived in. He was wrong. It took over 300 years, but in 1939 his code was cracked and the observations of William Byrd II became known to all. Because he never intended it to be read by others, his diary gives us an unvarnished view of life on a colonial plantation in the early 18th century.
William Byrd II was born in Virginia in 1674 but was soon taken to England where he was educated. He remained there until his father's death in 1704. He returned to the colony and took over the management of Westover, the family plantation on the James River. He became an influential member of the Virginia aristocracy and was appointed to the colony's Council of State in 1708. He owned vast amounts of land (approximately 179,000 acres) and numerous plantations. He founded two cities - Richmond and Appomattox - on his land. He died in 1744. Read his accounts for free at .....
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/colo ... tation.htm
Video from : www.youtube.com
Video from : www.youtube.com
Video from : www.youtube.com
we like to discuss many different subjects. Slavery is a delicate subject and one that should be discussed until the end of time, to ensure that it never happens again.
Although it is (in some parts of the world) still going on, I think mostly, when we think of the slave market, we think of Africa and the deep South of America.
Here below, you will find a selection of website links and videos offering examples of slavery, in it's many forms.
Some are diaries written by the slaves themselves, like Harriet Jacobs.
Born into slavery in North Carolina in 1813, Harriet Jacobs was taught to read and write by the woman who owned her. But when her owner died, young Jacobs was left to a relative who treated her far worse. When she was a teenager, her master made sexual advances on her, and finally one night in 1835 she attempted to escape.
The runaway didn’t get far, and wound up hiding in a small attic space above the house of her grandmother, who had been set free by her master some years earlier. Incredibly, Jacobs spent seven years in hiding, and health problems caused by her constant confinement led her family to find a sea captain who would smuggle her north.
Jacobs found a job as a domestic servant in New York, but life in freedom was not without dangers. There was a fear that slave catchers, empowered by the Fugitive Slave Law, might track her down. She eventually moved on to Massachusetts, and in 1862, under the pen name Linda Brent, published a memoir, Incidents in the Live of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. You can read the whole book, online for free at...
http://history1800s.about.com/od/slaver ... atives.htm
Daily Life on a Colonial Plantation, 1709-11
He wrote his diary in a secret code - an archaic form of shorthand known only to the most educated of his day. Because it was encoded, he was confident that no one would ever read his revealing portrait of the world he lived in. He was wrong. It took over 300 years, but in 1939 his code was cracked and the observations of William Byrd II became known to all. Because he never intended it to be read by others, his diary gives us an unvarnished view of life on a colonial plantation in the early 18th century.
William Byrd II was born in Virginia in 1674 but was soon taken to England where he was educated. He remained there until his father's death in 1704. He returned to the colony and took over the management of Westover, the family plantation on the James River. He became an influential member of the Virginia aristocracy and was appointed to the colony's Council of State in 1708. He owned vast amounts of land (approximately 179,000 acres) and numerous plantations. He founded two cities - Richmond and Appomattox - on his land. He died in 1744. Read his accounts for free at .....
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/colo ... tation.htm
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