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What made the first person to start slavery think that the idea of using someone for hard labour or anything they wanted them to do was a great idea?

The english colony of jamestown started slavery by taking twenty africans away from their home and brining them back to jamestown. The people of jamestown obviously did not care about what the africans thought about being used as slaves. They were probably not nice to them since they were being used as slaves and they did not care about their well being. There is a certain kind of person to be a  slave owner because you are literally owning another person and forcing or making them do labour, farming, and building structures or fulfilling Their sexual wants. By being a slave owner you throw out the slaves needs and their rights as a human being. But the main reason they probably even took the people and turned them into slaves was because it would save them lots of money and work and they would and cans sell them off and get more. Slavery is generally selfish and a terrible thing that has to be stopped and i talk about how it can be stopped in my other body paragraph.

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My Essay will be about slavery and three questions that will be in the form of body paragraphs. This is including why the first person that started slavery thought it was a good idea. second question is on why slavery wasn't stopped a long time ago and why are there still millions of cases of it. Third question is how can we completely eliminate slavery so it doesn't ever happen again? Slavery is a terrible thing that has been going on for too long and started in 1619 and is still going on. So the sooner that we can stop it the better and we can learn from our past mistakes.

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Carter Ramos
Salvery Project
Ms. Ponce
Social 10-1

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The Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker's Sundance darling period piece about the deadliest slave insurrection in American history, was purchased by Fox Searchlight on early Tuesday morning for $17.5 million. It was the largest deal in Sundance history, and coverage immediately suggested that The Birth of a Nation will function as some way through which the Academy can make up for this year's diversity debacle.

Nat Turner's Rebellion is a fascinating story, an important one, and an under-examined one. Nate Parker struggled for years to get the project made, and I have no doubt that-as with almost any film rooted in a black experience or with a mostly black cast-it was a frequently frustrating fight. I will certainly be buying a ticket to see The Birth of a Nation when it comes to theaters. But part of me is torn about sitting through yet another film that centers around the brutalization of black people.

Frankly, I'm tired of slavery movies.

It's obvious at this point that Hollywood has a problem with only paying attention to non-white people when they're playing a stereotype. Their love of the slave movie genre brings this issue out in the worst way. I'm tired of watching black people go through some of the worst pain in human history for entertainment, and I'm tired of white audiences falling over themselves to praise a film that has the courage and honesty to tell such a brutal story. When movies about slavery or, more broadly, other types of violence against black people are the only types of films regularly deemed "important" and "good" by white people, you wonder if white audiences are only capable of lauding a story where black people are subservient.

Of the six films actually produced by black people that have been nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, three are about slavery or slavery-adjacent violence against black people ( The Color Purple, Django Unchained and 12 Years A Slave). The fourth is Selma and the fifth is Precious, two movies that focus on black women being emotionally and physically beaten down in almost every way possible. The last is the The Blind Side, where a white woman who butts in and makes a black kid who was already a promising athlete into an even better athlete.

From a simple visual perspective, I'm tired of being told that I have to watch black actors in physical pain and endure mental abuse for two hours in order to be worthy of a distinction. I don't want to watch a black body being lashed open so white people can finally "get it." I'm tired of black actors not only having to live through the trauma of acting in those films, but for also having few other options in front of them.

Often, films about slavery receive laborious, highbrow praise for truly showing the horrors of the institution to a larger audience-the unspoken suggestion being that after watching these films, white Americans will better understand and empathize with the slave experience. However, it really smacks of an opportunity to assuage what apparently is a deep emotional burden of being white and having benefited from white supremacy. How nice, that a white viewer can feel good about themselves for shedding a tear during Amistad. As much as I'd like them to, I think it's clear by 2016 that films about slavery do not help us become a more tolerant or understanding society. I have no doubt that there exists a white person who loved 12 Years A Slave and who also thinks Donald Trump makes some good points.

In the case of The Birth of a Nation, one could argue that Parker is educating white audiences about a story they may not have learned otherwise. That's probably true. Film can be illuminating and didactic, but at the same time, we have a serious problem if Hollywood is anywhere close to being a major source of education about slavery. The complicated, harrowing, lasting history of slavery should be taught in classrooms. No person should finally understand the violence of the institution because they saw Lupita Nyong'o being whipped onscreen.

As a black American, slavery is part of my history, but it is by no means all of my history. The disproportionate attention paid to movies about slavery or the Civil Right's Movement also helps to strengthen the misguided notion that those were the only "bad times" for black people in America. Aren't we proud of black people for getting through that? It's a condescending and severely limited lesson. Despite attempts to sanitize the history of slavery, most Americans do know slavery was A Bad Thing; we understand the resilience of black Americans, if only because we're still here. When will we get anything more complex, or more real?

Creatively, these films also face clear limitations. 12 Years a Slave and The Birth of a Nation are historical films inspired by real people. But most slaves couldn't write or leave behind narrative accounts of their lives, so much of our information comes from the perspective of white people.

I want stories about Solomon Northup and Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman to be told. But I also want to watch movies about black debutante balls and the Great Migration and a coming-of-age movie about a black teenager in Houston who loves to skateboard and gets into trouble with her Desi best friend. Those films are surely out there waiting to be made. I guarantee that somewhere there sits a great screenplay about a seamstress who wants to be a nightclub singer set during the Harlem Renaissance. Or a love story about black couple during World War II. Maybe someone right now is working on a biopic about Eartha Kitt or Crispus Attucks or some lesser-known hero like Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the highest ranking black man ever in a European army and the father of Alexandre Dumas.

Until there are other types of films made and recorded as significant contributions to the canon, American audiences will rarely be challenged to see black people as anything other than former slaves, sassy black friends, domestics. Right now, Americans are only comfortable with a certain type of black person onscreen, but I am entirely unconcerned with their comfort.

A colleague of mine noted that The Birth of a Nation might be a good way to bookend the slave film genre for awhile. Indeed, as it's not the traditional slave storyline and as it's already received the effusive praise of many white people at Sundance, it's probably going to be great. I like the idea of celebrating this film and then putting a lid on the slavery genre for a while.

In that time, we can introduce new narratives and expand the scope of our humanity; we can represent the fullness of our experience, as we and all other minority groups deserve. Audiences will learn to identify with black pain that doesn't stem from chains and whips. I want those stories to be considered seriously by white audiences, just as movies about white people learning how to ballroom dance or talk to computers or play the drums are. We have more stories to tell. It's time we give those a fair chance.
Contact the author at kara.brown@jezebel.com .

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The Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker's Sundance darling period piece about the deadliest slave insurrection in American history, was purchased by Fox Searchlight on early Tuesday morning for $17.5 million. It was the largest deal in Sundance history, and coverage immediately suggested that The Birth of a Nation will function as some way through which the Academy can make up for this year's diversity debacle.

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Why wasn't slavery stopped a long time ago and why are there still millions of cases of it??

Slavery has been going on for centuries and is still going on right now. We can stop it by informing the world that its still happening so everybody would want to make a change after being informed. After spreading the news there would be major changes and it would end up being eliminated. Because i didn't even know there was slavery anymore but there are so many cases. Including human trafficking and through human trafficking there are counts of sexual exploitation and forced labour.

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How can we completely eliminate slavery so it doesn't ever happen?

I was researching and I found that in the atlantic slavery is completely normal and it is because everybody has given up on the state of Mauritania. But some efforts were given and people have been thrown in jail for slavery for ten years in prison and two extra years in prison for promoting slavery. But the efforts were obviously not enough because it is still going on. It is an estimated half a million of Mauritania people that have been enslaved by the wicked chain of the government because they are not doing anything about it and they think it is justified by their bad economy to have these slaves. nder any circumstances slavery is never ok. Also when being enslaved the slaves do not get their rights of having the legal custody of their children, the rights to have their own last name, and owning property. This needs to be changed in every country so all countries can unite and demolish slavery so it will never happen again!

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Video Clip On Slavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ6MQ5Dyfow

Video Clip On Jamestown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGEXQkpRPvk

Music Video On Slavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHU6ZRQJ50Q

Music Video On Slavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIPRXhLF858

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Salvery Research
https://www.google.ca/search?q=when+was+slavery+started&oq=when+was+slavery+started&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4351j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Slavery Research
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/slavery/ethics/justifications.shtml

Clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ6MQ5Dyfow

Slavery In The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/06/the-country-where-slavery-is-still-normal/241148/