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6/ A White master's house in the USA's south ....

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... and a cabin for a slave family. What sort of "house" would you have prefered, if you had lived at that period ?

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The ideal Plantation life ...

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But in reality, Blacks were not humans, only objects. Bad treatments could happen if they rebelled.

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... and on buses too. Where are people sitting on this photo ?

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Would you like to visit the bus where Rosa Parks sat and said "no" ?

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This small woman was arrested on December, 1st, 1955 because she sat at the front of a bus. The place was Montgomery, Alabama, in the south of the USA.

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The USA have a Black president, Barack Obama. Black Americans are famous in sport, the cinema or the song industry. It is fine. But there are more Black people in prison than White people in the US ...

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A difficult life in the USA's southern states.

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A difficult life in the USA's southern states.

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5/ Life was hard: long days' work in cotton fields and no time to relax. There was always a White man to watch.

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2/ Black people were caught (usually by Black people from other groups) on the African west coast. They were taken on board slave ships in horrible conditions. The Middle Passage (= the crossing of the Atlantic) was terrible. Maybe 25 or 30 % died in the crossing.

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3/ The first Black slaves were brought to Virginia in 1619. They were bought to work in tobacco fields.

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It seems hard to imagine now but since about 1500 there was a lot of money to be made buying and selling people as slaves.

Companies would go to Africa and capture men, women and children to be taken in horrific conditions on ships and destined for a cruel life in slavery.

Cities such as Bristol, London and Liverpool grew rich off the trade.

It's thought about 24 million Africans were sold to slave traders.

Plantations

The slaves were usually sent to work in the sugar cane fields on plantations - giant farms - in the Caribbean, North America and South America where the work was really hard and dangerous. Many were left disabled by work accidents.

Other slaves were used as personal servants in polite society in cities such as London and Edinburgh.

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CBBC Newsround | Guides | World | Slavery | What was the slave trade?

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It seems hard to imagine now but since about 1500 there was a lot of money to be made buying and selling people as slaves. Companies would go to Africa and capture men, women and children to be taken in horrific conditions on ships and destined for a cruel life in slavery.

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1/ The slave trade map: a much profitable commerce for Europe over about 250 years, with about 15 million Black people. Liverpool, Britstol, Nantes or La Rochelle were important slave harbours. Europeans imported tobacco, sugar or rice.

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4/ In the USA, Black people were sold on markets. Parents and children were separated and sold to different White masters.

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In the USA, in the 1960s, there was SEGREGATION: Blacks and White lived together BUT apart at (schools, restaurants ...

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In the slave states (confederate states), slavery existed, because the climate was ok to grow cotton or tobacco.

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Martin Luther King heard about Rosa's story. He organised a boycott. Black people didn't go to work by bus. The company lost money and M L King won the fight. Black people could sit where they wanted on buses in Montgomery.

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But segregation was slow to go. M L King made a lot of speeches to convince people. His most famous speech was in Washington, in August, 1963.

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2020, a man died because of his skin-colour...

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2020, a man died because of his skin-colour...

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This "murder" went viral (because it was filmed) the world over. A Black American, George Floyd, was strangled live by a White policeman... If Mister Floyd's skin-colour had been white, the situation would very probably have been different ...