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    Rodney Carey African American History Dr. Reginald Ellis Go Sound the Trumpet: Synopsis In the book Go Sound the Trumpet by Canter Brown Jr.‚ he talks about the documentation of different African Communities in Florida and the communities of the freed slaves. He tells us what happened to slaves after they were freed and where they went. Some of these communities he described as unidentified and he talked about one in particular that escaped identification. Information about the community known

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    Canter Brown Jr. wrote Tales of Angola to show the strong history of Free Blacks‚ Seminoles‚ Red Stick Creek in Southwest Florida and what happened to them. Their a focus on southwest maroon communities and their survival. The expression of their struggle and the havoc felt by these people are brought to light in this section .It tells a story of the forgotten ‚that were destroyed by the United States government‚and how some of them escaped. A significant black community existed in Florida‚ the

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    Convos/STAT 113 Service Learning Group Project Instructions  30 points total  Josey Ho 0027899115  Peining Xie 0025880900  Xiaotian Zhang 0025741134    Start by watching the Convos video (link will be in Blackboard) to learn what Convos needs  for us to do to help them choose artists to bring to campus next semester.  We will all be  working as statistical consultants.  You will be working in groups to collect data‚ and then as a  class we will prepare a report for Convos.  Questions to answer with your group before collecting your data: 

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    Women in Slave Resistance

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    INTRODUCTION According to Lucille Mathurin Mair in her article entitled “The Rebel Woman in the British West Indies During Slavery”‚ coming from West African‚ enslaved women in the Caribbean developed a gret level of self-respect and confidence. This was due to the fact that many of them held great amount of power and authority in Africa. Being child bearers‚ women were held in high esteem and were an asset to their tribe. Women also held high positions such as Queen Mother in African societies

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    Slave Society

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    Slavery done so we do not need to remember it!” Respond to this statement drawing specific reference to the nature of slave society and how the enslaved fought against their enslavement. Slavery done so we do not need to remember it!” Respond to this statement drawing specific reference to the nature of slave society and how the enslaved fought against their enslavement. Every society‚ in the Caribbean or anywhere else‚ is a product of the particular historical forces that shaped

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    16th through 19th century Europeans enslaved those from Africa for many reasons. The Portuguese were one of the first European nations to establish outposts in West Africa. In West Africa‚ and to a further extent Africa itself‚ slavery was already an old tradition. Upon discovery of the new world‚ areas in places such as Brazil were converted to cultivate highly profitable crops (such as sugar). Since the natives were very susceptible to European diseases‚ they were not a good source of labor

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    A Sporting Event

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    This is going to be my first Volley Ball Tryout. So I am quite excited about it and I got a feeling that this is going to be my best and memorable sporting event ever. So I started from home‚ very frantic. Six long hours after departing Hotchkiss‚ we finally reached our destination. We pulled into the parking lot of the Super 8 just off Interstate 76 in Sterling‚ Colorado. Since I had been to this hotel on a previous trip to Sterling‚ I began wishing I had brought my swimsuit along. Mom and dad

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    Divine Rights of Kings

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    NAME: Arkoh-Yeboah Aaron INDEX: 10342330 CODE: HIST 315 THE AKANS WERE THE MOST VISIBLE GROUP IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COLONIAL SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS. HOW TRUE IS THIS STATEMENT? The horrors of the whole institution of slavery in the world where slaves were subjected to vicious treatments by their owners still leave an irrevocable memory in the lives of especially the descendants of the enslaved victims. The slave institutions not surprisingly however suffered a lot of resistance

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    have always involved the production of some goods for sale in local markets. Types of peasant communities in the Caribbean • European peasant communities • Runaway slave communities – The maroons of Jamaica‚ Spanish Santo Domingo and Suriname for examples. (Many of these maroons traded products for weapons and or clothes.) • Slave farms on the plantation Significance and contribution of the peasantry to Caribbean society – “Emancipation in Action” (Sidney Mintz and Woodville

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    concentrated cluster of Africans in the Americas‚ with most of the population living in the Greater Antilles. With the imprint of millions of Africans in the Caribbean‚ a neo-Africa was created‚ allowing the African people and their culture to prevail. Maroons‚ communities of runaway slaves‚ are a group of people who provide one of the greatest

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