History

Don't know the score Don't let either side get to 20 Three members of the KKK attack and kill a white Republican.  Punish - 1 S Ignore - 5N Five members of the KKK attack and kill a black man Punish - 5 S Ignore- 2 N  North Carolina has agreed to ratify the 14th amendment and wants readmission to the union.  Accept- 1 N Refuse - 10 S Alabama has refused to ratify the 14th amendment and wants readmission to the union. Accept- 8 N Refuse- 3 S South Carolina is experiencing a fresh wave of terrorism at the hands of the KKK. They've burnt down hundreds of homes.  Send in troops- 8 S Ignore- 4 N  The Albany Penitentiary houses a handful of remorseful and low ranking KKK accomplices. People are calling for them to be pardoned. Pardon them - 2 N Don't pardon them- 2 S X

Jefferson had said: that the two races couldn't live together because of "deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites- ten thousand recollections by the blacks of the injuries they have sustained."  Teachers, politicians, doctors and lawyers were sent down south. Dear Friend: Perhaps you may care to know of my work here for the Freed people. After the horrible riots in New Orleans in July, I found my heart getting impaired from hospital visiting and excitement so I came here to do what I could and to get stronger corporally, that I might enter fully into carrying light and knowledge into dark places. The Lord blessed me and I have a very interesting and constantly growing day school, a night school, and, a glorious Sabbath School of near one hundred scholars. The school is under the auspices of the Freedmen’s Bureau, yet it is wholly self-supporting. The majority of my pupils come from plantations, three, four and even eight miles distant. So anxious ...

In 1845, Frederick Douglass, a free black man published  "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"  where he gave a detailed, well-written account of his life as a slave. The book was hugely popular and influential. It forced many people to put themselves in the shoes of a slave and as a result empathize with them. Frederick Douglas was a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great speaker and writer had once been a slave.

1831- Nat Turners rebellion  Watch birth of a nation? 1839 - La Armistad Rebellion  A slave ship called La Amistad set sail from Havana, Cuba. The Spanish crew were taking the 53 slaves (49 adults and 3 children) to be delivered to the town of Camaguey, Cuba. They had originally been captured in Sierra Leone and sold to the Spanish. At the time, Britain and the United States had outlawed Atlantic Slave trading but Spain still allowed it. They got out to sea the ship’s cook jokingly told the slaves that they were going to be “Killed, salted and cooked.” Whether or not the slaves thought he was serious, it made them want to escape all the more. One slave was able to file through his chains. He freed the other men and they picked up cane cutting machete’s and went onto the top deck. A fight broke out and the slaves outnumbered the crew and killed everyone except for two men. Three slaves were killed in the fight. The slaves didn’t know how to sail a ship and demanded ...

Sojourner Truth - 1828 Sojourner Truth was born in a dutch part of New York. Her first language was Dutch, and she continued to speak with a Dutch accent for the rest of her life. When her owner died in 1806, nine-year-old Truth (known as Belle), was sold at an auction with a flock of sheep for $100. (About $2,500 today) Her new owners wife didn't speak Dutch but English and when Sojourner was given orders she often didn't understand them. This lead to many punishments. Sojourner was again sold two more times before she was 13. When sojourner was 18 she fell in love with a slave on a neighboring farm which had a different owner. When a slave had a child, that child belonged to the man's owner, not the women's. So sojourners owner told her she couldn't marry someone else's slave but had to marry one of his. One night the man she was in love snuck over to see Sojourner. He was discovered and beaten severely. So she married an older slave who was ...

First slave ship arrives in Virginia, British North America (1619) Slavery had exsisted in Africa since prehistoric times. It's often thought that the Europeans captured Africans themselves, which occasionally happened but most slaves were already captives of rival tribes captured during war.  Europeans showed up looking to trade goods. The African kings offered them slaves in exchange for weapons. The African tribes would then use the weapons to fight their rivals and capture more slaves.  With European influence, they made some African tribes very powerful and rich. Instructions for loading slave ship Different tribes and languages, chained up with rival tribesman and unable to communicate. https://youtu.be/gWjJ4NM1KFA https://youtu.be/3NXC4Q_4JVg https://youtu.be/g00elRjygRQ https://youtu.be/S72vvfBTQws 200 years of slavery pass by, 10 generations of slavery I'm Irish. I'm British. I'm italian. No African counter part until ...

Birth Control Movement Effects of Multiple Births In a study by the University of Texas, they found women who have four or more children double their risk of heart disease. The body carries lasting effects of pregnancy. Doctors warn that as the number of births increases, so does the potential harm to the mother – and the child. Doctors worry these women may bleed to death after delivery or lose the child due to the damage done by multiple previous pregnancies. Contraception as a Sin Contraception was considered a sin by the Catholic Church. In the early 20th century, Catholic Irish and Catholic Italians swept into New England. The Pope and Catholic doctrine teaches that sex was created by God for the purposes of having children. They argued that contraception is unnatural and immoral. In the bible of a man named Onan who, when asked to impregnate his dead brothers wife, doesn't and gets struck down dead by God. Most Catholics therefore didn't take precau...