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Stowage of the slave ship ‘Brookes’ 1790 Up to 500 slaves were transported from the African coast to the New World in ships such as this.

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10 Stowage of the slave ship ‘Brookes’ 1790 Up to 500 slaves were transported from the African coast to the New World in ships such as this

11 “Indeed, such were the horrors of my views and fears at the moment, that, if ten thousand worlds had been my own, I would have freely parted with them all to have exchanged my condition with that of the meanest slave in my own country. When I looked round the ship too, and saw a large furnace of copper boiling, and a multitude of black people of every description chained together, every one of their countenances expressing dejection and sorrow, I no longer doubted of my fate, and, quite overpowered with horror and anguish, I fell motionless on the deck and fainted.”

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14 John Punch

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16 The ‘Big House’ Typical slave cabin

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24 " Aloft all hands, strike the top-masts and belay; Yon angry setting sun and fierce-edged clouds Declare the Typhon's coming. Before it sweeps your decks, throw overboard The dead and dying – ne'er heed their chains Hope, Hope, fallacious Hope! Where is thy market now?“ 1840

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26 William Lloyd Garrison 1805-1879

27 http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery/videos/abolition-and-the-underground-railroad

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29 http://www.biography.com/people/frederick-douglass-9278324/videos/frederick-douglass-mini-biography-2078942083

30 http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery/videos/harriet-tubman-and-the-underground-railroad

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33 Abraham Lincoln 1809-65 16 th President 1861-65 His election divided the nation

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36 1.Slavery was “an unqualified evil to the negro, the white man, and the State,” said Abraham Lincoln in the 1850s. Yet in his first inaugural address, Lincoln declared that he had “no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery in the States where it exists.” He reiterated this pledge in his first message to Congress on July 4, 1861, when the Civil War was three months old.Abraham Lincoln 2.Lincoln had powers as commander-in-chief of the armed forces to seize any property used to wage war against the United States. 3.Slavery was protected by the Constitution.

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39 World cup slaves in Qatar http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/revealed-qatars-world-cup-slaves


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