Livingstone does not give up, and once again an expedition is on its way trough the desert, again with Livingstone's pregnant wife and the children who had survived. ... In what could be the very end for them all, they find some water, and four days later the company arrives the river Chobe, (a side-river to the Zambezi river). ... Nobody knew that this river went there until Oswell and Livingstone came. And it was here he realized that he had to travel down the river to the east coast. ... Livingstone and Oswell went all the way back to Cape Town where Mary and the children left for Engl...

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The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 did not fundamentally solve the majority of Northerners deeply, they refused to be responsible for catching escaped slaves, and even helped them to escape or provided shelter for them, By that time The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published, Mark Twain showed his opinion about slavery in children's eyes. ... Huck at first believes that the blacks are much lower than whites and regards them as inferior animals, the conversation between him and Aunt Sally after the explosion in the river is a good example. ... At first, he can not see J...

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The determined owner chased Davids to the Ohio River, but Davids suddenly disappeared without a trace, leaving his owner bewildered and wondering if the slave had "gone off on some underground road." ... Popular conductors of the Underground Railroad included James Fairfield (a white abolitionist who went into the Deep South and freed slaves by posing as a slave trader), Harriet Tubman (who became known as "Moses" in 1849 when she made nineteen trips to the South and helped free at least 300 slaves), and African American abolitionist John Parker of Ripley, Ohio (who ventured to Kentucky and Vi...

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Throughout their trip down the river, Jim persistently takes care of Huck. ... The only reason he ran was because he overheard her saying that he was going to be sold down the river. Being sold down the river meant being sold into an even graver situation for a slave. ... In the Deep South, or down the river? ... He had abandoned his wife and children and he was scared. ...

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Louis and became a river boat apprentice. ... In 1861, when river trade started to slow, twain returned to the newspaper business. ... Rachel's husband was bought first and then her children. ... He has no wife, no children, and no family to support him. ... Their campsite was really close to the river, and one night, the river started rising. ...

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In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. ... There were four million men, women, and children in slavery. ... But, in the state of Louisiana it was against the law to separate children under the age of 11 years old from their parents. ... It was against the law for slaves to read, write and name their children after themselves. ... If you are a free slave they still can sell you to who ever want to buy you weather they lived up or down the river. ...

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For example, in one of the lines it says, "They attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house." ... I can't even begin to imagine what I would do if I had to stand there and watch what these barbarians do to these people especially the women and children. They raped the wives of the village rulers and took the newborn infants and threw them into the rivers to drown or be eaten by the sharks and other man eating ...

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Although owners, as early as the 1640's, considered Negroes and their children as slaves the term was not officially used until 1656 when it was mentioned in the Virginia laws of that year. By 1662 mulatto children, and all children, of slave mothers were to follow the status of their mother (Moore, 9) By the 18th century the south increasingly needed slaves to carry on their way of life. ... Conductors would take fugative slaves form plantations traveling single or as part of a group as far as the Ohio river or the Eastern shore of Maryland; they were then met by other agents after c...

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The Slave Dancer a novel by Paula Fox, a tale which took place in the 1840s in New Orleans, Louisiana to the coasts of Africa and to the Mississippi River, the colonial years of America, when slave trade and land exploration was everyday life. ... He lives with his mother a widow, and his sister Betty, his father died, drowned in the Mississippi River. ... The shipped sailed by the coast and one by one brown bodies came on deck, men, women, children all together. ... Screams of women and children came from below the deck. ... Malnutrition made the slaves exhausted and the children as well. ...

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Slaves are seen in this novel as animalistic creatures ("He was a fairly human man towards slaves and other animals - (14), dependent on the good will of their "master-, and always in fear of being "sold down the river-. - Being "sold down the river- meant having to work under the worst circumstances imagined by a slave further South, down the river Mississippi. - At first we are introduced to the slave Roxana whom we get to know in the form of an all-black voice teasing another black voice, namely the slave Jasper. ...

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Drunks shouldn't be forgiven and allowed to take care of children. ... It wasn't until Huck had a chance to listen to Jim's struggle of missing his wife and children that he understood black people also feel loss and loneliness. ... The lies flowed from his mouth like the Mississippi River they were following towards freedom. ...

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For example the capital, Amaurot covers a piece of land two miles square of the bank of the Anider River, and about sixty miles from the sea. ... Instead they were killed in a place near a river were no one was at. ... Slavery was not hereditary, so the children of slaves were granted free citizenship. ...

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Many could not survive in these harsh conditions, especially children. These children would become very ill and, after some beatings, they would be sent to me. ... The children wouldn't have to walk around any more wondering why the white children had beautiful names like Katherine Anne Freed and they responded to little Nigger. ... Then I was going to follow a river to the next city to catch a train. ... He had no other slaves and received all of his necessities from monthly visits from his children. ...

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This event should not have affected Sarny that much because none of the birthing mothers were allowed to keep their own children. ... Delie raises all of the little children and keeps a stick for each child that she marks with a notch each summer to record the children's age. ... He ran through a river and on top of a stone wall so the dogs could not find his scent. ...

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Her owner trusted her to watch over and raise the children of the slaves until they were old enough to begin their labor. She was allowed to keep her own cabin, and to farm food for the children and herself. ... She was a master fisher, and spent most of her days in the river or in the field farming. ... In slavery it was very common, before puberty, for a slave child to play with the master's children. ...

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Children and those whose clothes deteriorated went naked until the next year. ... Douglass gives an example of a slave who unknowingly tells his master that he is being treated poorly, and as a result, is sold "down the river." ... When the women become pregnant, their children are sold by the wish of the master's wife, to avoid the constant reminder of the man's fornication. ...

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The youngest son of a village leader, Equiano was born among the Ibo people in the kingdom of Benin, along the Niger River. ... Two men and a woman climbed over the walls of the house and captured the children. ... One of the children survived to inherit an estate of around &160,000 from Susanna's father. ...

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One of the formative events of her early childhood was witnessing her parents' grief over the loss of children who had been sold away. ... There she married a fellow slave named Thomas, with whom she had at least five children: two daughters and a son were sold away from her. ... Around 1829 Isabella Van Wagener moved to New York City with her two youngest children, Peter and Sophia. ... She became a roving minister, traveling around the Connecticut River valley to preach, sing, pray, and evangelize at camp meetings, in churches, or wherever she could find shelter and an audience. ... Whe...

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There are also the Eastern Woodlands who relied heavily on lakes and rivers. ... There were a number of trade routes along the rivers, which led to a heavy reliance on imports and exports. ... We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.... It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. ... The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live uponnothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away....

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The seventh out of thirteen children, she early exhibited her brilliance. ... They listened mesmerized to his touching stories about slave escapes, including one story about a young slave woman who escaped across a frozen river while carrying her baby in her arms. ... It was a problem she was to have while carrying all of her following children. ...

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At the same time, the Dutch claimed the Delaware, the Hudson, and the Connecticut River valleys (Murin, 53); with such strongholds, the Dutch West India Company controlled much of the slave trades in the Americas. ... Asians love their children just as much as Americans, Europeans and Africans. ...

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The Gellabs brought the slaves down the Nile, partly across the desert and partly down the river. ... Slaves subsequently were banned from being imported by law; hence slaves were encouraged to bear children. ...

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As the poem opens we are introduced to a man who is burdened with the demanding and tedious job of cutting rice. As we move into the poem we find that this man, is a slave, who has dreams and aspirations of his own. His mind spirals into imaginings about his family and his kingdom. He is so entrance...

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Which would normally be near the bakes of a river, then they would bring any other needed materials to the brick yard. ... Parents sold their children into slavery in order to repay a creditor for an agreed-upon time in satisfaction of his debts (Constable 1987). ... Children "born in the house" of slave parents became "house born slaves". ... Debtors who went bankrupt were often forced to sell their children as slaves, or their children would be confiscated as slaves by the creditor (2 Kgs 4:1; Num 5:5, 8). ...

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" true or false, it is of but little consequence to my purpose whilst the fact remains, in all its glaring odiousness, that slaveholders have ordained, and by law established, that the children of slave women shall in all cases follow the condition of their mothers; and this is done too obviously to administer to their own lusts, and make a gratification of their wicked desires profitable as well as pleasurable; for by this cunning arrangement, the slaveholder, in cases not a few, sustains to his slaves the double relation of master and father. ... Another custom in slavery, probably also o...

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