The novel, "The Diligent," provides insight to the slave trade from Africa to the New World through Robert Durand's journal. ... The plan was to gather slaves and board them onto The Diligent and sail towards the New World. ... Therefore, the slave traders need to have their own tactics to keep the slaves from rebelling or dying before reaching the New World. ... Throughout this horrid journey for the slaves, the slave traders had to make sure the slaves were kept alive before reaching the New World. ... The crew of the Diligent was not as strict with shackling the slaves when they were o...

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It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in the slave ship, moral and physical suffering, darkness and the violence towards the women slaves. "Voyage Through Death / To Life Upon these Shores" symbolizes the apex of the construction of the Middle Passage; this is an emphatic claim to life, signifying the arrival of a new people on the scene of the New World. ... This produced copious perspirations so that the air became unfit for respiration from a variety of loathsome sme...

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They finally let him loose but the dark sea and black sky made the thought of an escape was impossible. ... The crew of the Moonlight consisted of thirteen members, including captain Cawthorne who didn't have a care in the world besides the money slaves would bring in, and his first mate spark who was in charge of keeping the crew in working order. ... Living on the ship made Jessie go on the brink of insanity but after a while he got use to the sea. ... The ship was sailing around the Carribean sea almost reaching shore a few knots away. ... The boys landed on shore and looked back at th...

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As he grew up in the world of slavery, going from master to master, he encountered a struggle to find his own identity. He went from Africa, to the Caribbean, to the Americas, to the West Indies, and also spent a great deal of his time out at sea. ... The book editor Robert Alison commented that, "His years of slavery in the West Indies and life as a free man in Europe and at sea had given him a dual identity and made him recognize that though he was culturally an Englishman, he had become a son of Africa" (Alison 4). ... After being at sea for about three years, Equiano comments that, "F...

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There would be a consistent war between Muslim and Christian fleets at sea, which left the Jewish merchants at a neutral status. As a result, Jewish merchants who were kidnapped at sea by pirates had a better chance of getting their ransom paid by their co-religionists . ... The Jewish World in the Middle Ages. ...

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All over the world we can see the beliefs of individuals as they vary. ... In the christian faith, there is a belief of a world that you pass into after the termination of this life on earth. ... Eons ago when our ancestors lived, in certain cultures there was a belief in one or more gods who governed the seas, land, air, the crops, and even a god of fertility. ... pg 239 Tornton continues his explanation of the African religion when he discusses the interventation of sprits from the other world sending messages to their loved ones here on earth. ... In the previo...

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Millions of other Blacks were torn from their African homes and carried to the New World before the slave trade was ended. ... As traffic with the New World increased, and the demand for slave labor swelled, the buying and selling of Africans gave way to piracy and kidnapping. ... By 1645 a Yankee sea captain was sailing the Rainbowe out of Boston on the first American voyage for slaves. ...

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She believed that God was present everywhere and that all beings lived in him as "fishes in the sea." ... At the same time, it had to be done eventually in order for women to go far in this world, and she did. You"d think that some wealthy white women would have stood up for their rights before a former African American slave, but I guess that is a great example that shows African Americans are underestimated in our world. ... She rose from nothing in society to one of the world's most adored Women's abolition pioneers. ... Sojourner Truth will always be remembered as one of the fi...

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Sailing from Senegalese coast to the New World. the vessel is intended to hold 300 people, but it obviously holds many more terrified, sardine-packed captives. ... When the unkind seas did not provide wind to move the ship, the voyage was just prolonged. ...

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Slavery in the ancient world was nothing like the slavery of today. ... A brickyard with bricks laid out to dry was found at Tell el-Kheleifeh near the Red Sea and has been dated 850 BC. ... Slaves or slavery was a highly used source of labor in the ancient world. Slavery was a way of life for many people of the ancient world of Egypt. ... The choices were very limited in the ancient world. ...

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The conquistadors needed labor force in order to achieve their goal of colonizing the New World, so they went to Africa where the Royal African Monopoly controlled a vast majority of the community and forced them into slavery. ... Some of them died in the middle of the trip and were thrown to the sea as food for the sharks. ... Let our history show us that we can change, and that there is hope for a better world. ...

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The Northern Indians were said to guard and hold on to their land very aggressively, as well the French settlements to the north of Quebec, along with the natural borders of the sea and the mountains. ... The standard of living is said to have been higher in rural Pennsylvania than any other agricultural region in the world at that time, especially due to the steadily climbing value of grain; in 1770 wheat was worth twice what it had been in 1720. ...

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After publishing an article in defense of her long-time friend, Lady Byron, in which she revealed sordid facts about Lord Byron's life, the entire English-speaking world erupted with harsh criticism for her action. When the storm of criticism finally died down, Harriet was devastated by the news that her son, Frederick, had been lost at sea. ...

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In the Iroquois story of creation, a woman came from heaven and fluttered above the sea. ... These laws gave men power and authority over women, and they had no desire to rethink them when coming to the New World. ...

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Slaves in the New World a. ... It is not known exactly how many Africans died at sea during the Middle Passage while estimations vary from 25 to 50 million. ... Slaves in the New World were treated just as harshly, if not more so, upon arriving at America. ...

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OUTLINE I. Frederick Douglass in Context of Period A. Child Slave 1. Sired by White Man 2. Separated from family at early age 3. Witnessed beatings a. Was beaten 4. Exhibited natural "flair with words" B. Servant for the Auld Family 1. Learned to read and write 2. Mrs. Auld a...

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The 1831 slave narrative The History of Mary Prince is indeed a multi-layered text. Transcribed from Mary Prince's own words, it was written as abolitionist propaganda for England's Anti-Slavery Society. Yet, the autobiography's complexities make it difficult to examine solely as a publicity piece....

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