1. Slavery in the United States

2. Slavery 1st African slaves came on a Dutch ship to Jamestown in 1619
Middle Passage was the second part of the triangular trade route (see map)
About 18 million Africans were transported between with about 3 million dying on the way over

5. The slave- ship Brookes (1788)
                                                                                                 
The slave-
ship Brookes
(1788)
Fig I
lengthwise cross-section
Fig II
breadthwise cross-section: men
Fig III
breadthwise cross-section: women
Fig IV
lower deck with platforms
Fig V
lower deck without platforms
Fig VI
half-deck with platforms
Fig VII A
lower deck B
lower deck: breath C
men's section D
platform: men's section E
boy's section F
platforms: G
women's section H
platforms: women's section I
gun room K
quarter deck L
cabin

6. Inside a Slave Ship

7. 19th Century: A diagram depicting the proper way to pack and
                                                                                                                                
19th Century: A diagram depicting the proper way to pack and
ship slaves across the Atlantic Ocean

8.                                          
Massachusetts was the first colony to legalize slavery in 1641

10. US Population Timeline
First English settlement: Roanoke, Va Jamestown in :         est Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock in :        est ,000 Puritans arrive in Massachusetts in :        est Within 10 years, 20,000 Puritans arrive in Massachusetts :     est. 27, :     est. 51, :     est. 84, :    est. 114, :    est. 155, :    est. 213, :    est. 275, :    est. 357, :    est. 474, :    est. 654, :    est. 889, :  est. 1,207, :  est. 1,610,000

13.                                                        
1655 The First Slave
Auction at
New Amsterdam

14. Slave Sale Ad

17. 1861: The selling of slaves at U.S. auctions was a profitable business
                                                                                                                                                 
1861: The selling of slaves at U.S. auctions was a profitable business
venture for individuals looking to make a large profit on a minimal investment.

18. Charleston Slave Market

20.                                                                                                                                           
1857: A slave owner brands his slaves in order to help him
"keep track of merchandise."

21. Punishments for slaves

22. Slave Codes Slave codes were laws meant to control slaves.
These codes forbid slaves from learning to read, owning firearms, or marrying a white person.
The penalty a slave faced for learning to read was having a thumb cut off!
These laws also made the children born to slaves automatically slaves for life (generational slavery).

23.                                                                                                                             
1823 Sugar slavery in Latin America

24.                                                                           
A cotton plantation on the Mississippi River

25. Anti-Slavery
Lundy formed the first anti-slavery
society in 1815

26. Human Rights and the Rights of Slaves

27. Summary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Everyone has the right to:
 Be born free and should be treated in the same way
 Be treated as equals, despite differences in language, sex, colour etc.
 Life and to live in freedom and safety
 Be recognized by the law
 Be treated equally before the law
 Ask for help when their rights are not respected
 A fair trial
 To be presumed innocent until proven guilty
 Privacy
 Travel within and to and from their own country
 Asylum
 A nationality
 Marry
 Own property and things
 Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
 Freedom of opinion and expression
 Meet with others
 Take part in government and to vote
 Social security
 Work and join a trade union
 Rest and leisure
 An adequate standard of living and medical help
 Education
 Take part in their community’s cultural life
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order that is necessary for these rights
Everyone has the right not to:
 Be held in slavery
 Be hurt or tortured
 Be imprisoned unjustly
Everyone:
 Must respect the rights of others
No-one can take away any of the rights in this declaration

28. The rights of slaves 1764  Slaves must be locked up at night
 Slaves are property and can be sold
 Masters can do as they like with their slaves
 Masters must destroy slave culture
 Slaves are given new names
 Slaves can be killed
 Slaves cannot marry
 Slaves cannot be educated
 Slaves must be locked up at night
 Slaves must wear a ball and chain
 Slaves cannot become Christians
 Slaves cannot possess property/sell anything
 All blacks are slaves
 Slaves’ children are the property of the master

29. Modern Slavery forced to work -- through mental or physical threat;
owned or controlled by an 'employer', usually through mental or physical abuse or threatened abuse;
dehumanized, treated as a commodity or bought and sold as 'property';
physically constrained or has restrictions placed on his/her freedom of movement.

30. Whole families are in bonded
                       My first boss bought
me and beat me - Kadum, 18
Cambodia 
                      Many migrant workers
are trafficked into the
United States and are
forced to harvest crops
on farms in Florida
Dieusibon Delice ran away
from the abuses he faced as
a child domestic worker and
is now living in a shelter in Haiti
                      Boy bonded labourer
Pakistan (Sindh Province)
                      Whole families are in bonded
labour. Kailash Bhika, 28, with
his wife, Rambeti, 24, daughter
Ratma, 4 and son Kalv (18 mo)
                      
Jiera (19, Lithuanian) was a victim of human trafficking.
"My life has been ruined... They trafficked me into
prostitution when I was 17." What Jiera thought was going
to be a holiday in London became a nightmare before she
escaped with the help of a Lithuanian punter.