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ex slaves talking about their experiences

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ex slaves talking about their experiences

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https://youtu.be/fZfcc21c6Uo

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documentary with some good pictures and footage in and info

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nina simone- i wish i knew how it would feel to be free

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billie holiday- strange fruit

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African American music cannot be separated from the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the forced transportation of millions of African people across the Atlantic who were then enslaved. The cultures from which they were torn and the conditions into which they were forced both contributed to the sounds of African American music. Many of the instruments historically used in African American music, including the banjo and the drum, have antecedents in African musical instruments, and many features common to African American music likewise have roots in African musical traditions, such as the call and response song form and an immersive approach to singing.

Slaves' lives were restricted in innumerable ways, but among them included limits on literacy and property ownership. Music was therefore passed down orally, and early records of African American music indicate that songs changed frequently, not just from singer to singer, but also from day to day when sung by the same musician. Music was a solace, a community-builder, and voice for hope during enslavement and afterward, in the days of Reconstruction and then Jim Crow.

Although many of them are less well known than their later counterparts, there were plenty of professional African American musicians and singers during Reconstruction, including a group of African American university students, led by their music instructor, and billed as the Fisk Jubilee Singers. They sang African American folk music and religious music, including slave songs, to white audiences, and raised enough money through their ventures to fund a building on campus named, appropriately, Jubilee Hall.

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Roots of African American Music | Smithsonian Institution

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African American music cannot be separated from the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the forced transportation of millions of African people across the Atlantic who were then enslaved. The cultures from which they were torn and the conditions into which they were forced both contributed to the sounds of African American music.

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- The Indians tell the Africans that the English have proven to be liars since the first lot, and that latest lie is: "Only the African can keep the Spanish tobacco alive."

- The truth is that King Charles can't get enough of taxes. By 1639, he divides Virginia into shires, and everyone needs to count every body to calculate the assessment owed to the king for his armies. It is this year that Go-Go calls out her sister's sacred name as she watches her pale-eyes granddaughter sold across the river to cover the tax on tobacco

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David Hammons

Untitled

1969

created using grease and margarine then sprinkled with pigment

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Segregation in the south photo series 1956

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Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color is a lively exhibition surveying the wide array of subjects and styles explored by the artist throughout her lifetime. The myriad of themes explored by Loïs Mailou Jones (1905-1998) over the impressive length of her career makes for a dynamic exhibition of more than 70 works, including paintings, drawings and textile designs. The retrospective begins with her early textile designs and sketches from the Harlem Renaissance.

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https://www.moma.org/artists/2486#works

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Other speakers discussed openings, the ‘unusual door’ from the old spiritual that Baldwin and Delaney both liked to refer to, and the window at Delaney’s studio in Clamart, Paris, before which he would sit for many hours, sometimes lonely, sometimes tranquil, a window that he and Baldwin both understood as a key to his movement into abstract works, what Baldwin called ‘a most striking metamorphosis into freedom’.

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Jacob Armstead Lawrence was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", although by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem.

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Jacob Armstead Lawrence was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", although by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colours of Harlem.

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The flora pays homage to Obama’s roots – jasmine for Hawaii, chrysanthemums for Chicago, and blue lilies for Kenya.

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The flora pays homage to Obama’s roots – jasmine for Hawaii, chrysanthemums for Chicago, and blue lilies for Kenya.

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A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind   
and floats downstream   
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and   
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings   
with a fearful trill   
of things unknown   
but longed for still   
and his tune is heard   
on the distant hill   
for the caged bird   
sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn
and he names the sky his own

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams   
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream   
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied   
so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings   
with a fearful trill   
of things unknown   
but longed for still   
and his tune is heard   
on the distant hill   
for the caged bird   
sings of freedom.

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Is Blues the Mother of All Modern Music?

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12 Years A Slave "Reel Song" - Roll Jordan Roll

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Influence on American Music - Jazz to Rock to Rhythm and Blues

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Influence on American Music - Jazz to Rock to Rhythm and Blues

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_music

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Elizabeth Catlett art and sculptures

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Go Tell It On The Mountain
and
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

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https://www.cbr.com/8-black-animation-artists-cartoon-fans-should-know/

(havnt had time to look through properly but it might be a start)

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"Walker’s work has frequently explored the depiction of racial stereotypes in the United States, and in a 2011 interview she said, ‘The primary situation in my work is that of the African-American telling her story’ The Keys to the Coop can be seen to explore imagery and ideas often associated with slavery and African-American history."

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"With his large-scale, exuberant paintings, artist Kerry James Marshall is on a mission: to make the presence of black people and black culture in the art world "indispensable" and "undeniable." Now 61, Marshall was a young artist when he decided to paint exclusively black figures."

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https://www.vogue.com/article/toyin-ojih-odutola-interview-vogue-august-2018

“Your blackness and your otherness are in your face every day in the lunchroom and at recess. It was a three-tiered view of life: You’re already a foreigner in America. And now, among African Americans, you’re African, which is another strike against you. And even in your own family, you’re not the same—you’re starting to become more Americanized.”

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"“Art for me now,” Catlett wrote in 1971, “must develop from a necessity within my people. It must answer a question, or wake somebody up, or give a shove in the right direction—our liberation.” While the racial and gender inequities that her work addresses remain all too present today, her belief in the power of her art to encourage change and reform perceptions of her people—“women,” “black people,” “working people”—never wavered."

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FBI surveillance on black protesters until recent

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FBI surveillance on black protesters until recent

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/26/fbi-black-activism-protests-history

"Throughout its history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has viewed Black activism as a potential national security threat. It has used its ample investigative powers not to suppress violence, but to inhibit the speech and association rights of Black activists. And its reaction to the protests following the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd shows little has changed."

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History of the Black Lives  Matter movement -

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History of the Black Lives  Matter movement -

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https://blacklivesmatter.com/herstory/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Lives-Matter

"In 2013, three radical Black organizers — Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi — created a Black-centered political will and movement building project called #BlackLivesMatter. It was in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman."

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Tenacious. Creative. Self- confident. Fearless. Resilient. They played all these qualities and more to their enslaved admirers. Maroons became folk heroes.
[...]  The heart of the maroon beat in the establishment of Black towns, the emigration to Black nations, movements for Black power, and Black institution
building yesterday and today. Marronage outlived the maroons.

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They found sustenance
and protection in the environment; knowing it intimately was paramount to their survival. The popular image of the wilderness as dangerous and savage served them well. They built a parallel reputation as
ferocious people who could measure up against wild beasts. But to
them, danger and savagery lay in the slavers’ world. “I felt safer among
the alligators than among the white men,” the maroon Tom Wilson
once said.

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what interests me within this book is focusing on how there are many stories from the individual which creates a community  (me becomes we) and how this tells the story of american history in an accurate non white-washed way which is very important . Also think it should be more about depicting inspiring struggles from strong people and using positive language rather than depicting a race as a whole going through something traumatic and tragic

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TOBACCO PLANT

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"HOW DO WE MAKE THE BRITISH CARE ABOUT AMERICAN IDEAS?" - VINTAGE DURING BRIEFING
- REACH BEYOND PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT RACE + POLITICS

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Every time I was told that my hair was too kinky, it was my Black
hair that was disparaged. Every time I was told that my nose was too
wide, it was my Black nose that was rejected. Every time I was called
a monkey or a gorilla, it was my Blackness that was hated. Every time
I was called loud or angry, it was my Blackness that was feared.
And it is my Blackness that has fought back. My Blackness that
has survived. The vast majority of Black Americans, often through the
rape of Black ancestors by white enslavers, have the ancestry of white
Americans running through them. But when the privileges of whiteness were kept from us, it was our Blackness that persevered. I am so
very proud of that.

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What is the meaning of acertain?

to find out or learn with certainty

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“Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?”

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“Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?”

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W. E. B. Du Bois

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On Being Brought from Africa to America.  BY PHILLIS WHEATLEY 'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land. ,Taught my benighted soul to understandThat there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.Some view our sable race with scornful eye,"Their colour is a diabolic die."Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.

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On Being Brought from Africa to America.  BY PHILLIS WHEATLEY 'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land. ,Taught my benighted soul to understandThat there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.Some view our sable race with scornful eye,"Their colour is a diabolic die."Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.

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in books and school we usually just see slavery as a thing that has happened many many years ago, however this book shows the repercussions of slavery today from many, and modern day slaver as well

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looking at individual experiences rather than statistics and numbers which is what we generally all learned in school

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Charlton
overthrow

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poems about poems