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History essay - 1 views

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    This tutorial contains information about essay writing based on materials from a first-year History subject on World War II. You will also find much of the information to be useful for your other History subjects. Navigate through the tutorial using the Table of Contents on the left. The tutorial's three main sections are outlined below.
Matt Esterman

Research Strategy: 7 Steps - 0 views

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    The following seven steps outline a simple and effective strategy for finding information for a research paper and documenting the sources you find. Depending on your topic and your familiarity with the library, you may need to rearrange or recycle these steps. Adapt this outline to your needs.
Matt Esterman

AFRICAN HOLOCAUST | History of Africa restored - 4 views

  • It takes more than a horrifying transatlantic voyage chained in the filthy hold of a slave ship to erase someone’s culture - Maya Angelou
  • A Dutch traveller to the kingdom of Benin in the early 17th century sent home this report of the capital. ‘It looks very big when you enter it for you go into a great broad street, which, though not paved, seems to be seven or eight times broader than the Warmoes Street in Amsterdam. This street continues for about four miles and has no bend in it. At the gate where I went in on horseback, I saw a big wall, very thick and made of earth, with a deep ditch outside. Outside the gate there is a large suburb. Inside as you go along the main street, you can see other broad streets on either side, and these are also straight. The houses in this town stand in good order, one close to the other and evenly placed beside the next, like our houses in Holland.’ Africans and the African continent have made enormous contributions to human history just as other peoples and continents have. It is the development of Eurocentric and racist views in Europe that have denied this fact and sought to negate the history of Africa and its peoples.
  • African Historiography Walter Rodney The slave trade contributed to Africa's depopulation, to the increased use of slaves within Africa, to the development of more predatory political systems, and to a greater gap between rich and poor. John Fage A know racist who is one of the leading Eurocentrics who white wash slavery. He Rejected the argument that slave exports led to serious depopulation and contended that the slave trade contributed to political centralization and economic growth. Eric Williams Racism was the result and not the cause of slavery; slave economies were a major source of capital for the industrial revolution; abolition came when slave economies were declining in profitability; abolition was driven more by economic interests than by philanthropy. Frank Tannenbaum Compared to British colonists, Latin Americans were less tainted by racial prejudice, were more lenient in their treatment of slaves, and extended religious and legal protections involving families and physical cruelty. Carl Degler Demographic necessity led the Portuguese in Brazil to promote freedmen and mulattoes into positions of social respectability; in the U.S., poor white yeomanry supported racism to protect their position in society.
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  • Major Rebellions New York City, 1712 Like many later revolts, this one occurred during a period of social dissension among whites following Leisler's Rebellion. The rebels espoused traditional African religion. Stono Rebellion, 1739 The Spanish empire enticed slaves of English colonies to escape to Spanish territory. In 1733 Spain issued an edict to free all runaway slaves from British territory who made their way into Spanish possessions. On September 9, 1739, about 20 slaves, mostly from Angola, gathered under the leadership of a slave called Jemmy near the Stono River, 20 miles from Charleson. 44 blacks and 21 whites lost their lives. South Carolina responded by placing import duties on slaves from abroad, strengthening patrol duties and militia training, and recommending more benign treatment of slaves. Gabriel's Rebellion, 1800 This attempted insurrection near Richmond was organized during the Haitian Revolution and the undeclared naval war between the U.S. and France. Denmark Vesey's Conspiracy, 1822 This failed insurrection was organized soon after the contentious debate over the admission of Missouri as a slave state. Like Gabriel, Vesey consciously looked to Haiti for inspiration and support. Nat Turner, 1832 This insurrection took place at a time when slaves in Jamaica had staged one of the largest revolts in history, when radical abolition had arisen in the North, and Britain was debating slave emancipation.
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Matt Esterman

History Slave Trade - 5 views

  • According to historian Walter Rodney, for example, Europe abolished the trans-Atlantic slave trade only because its profitability was undermined by the Industrial Revolution.
Matt Esterman

Avalon Project - Declaration of the Rights of Man - 1789 - 1 views

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    Right of Man online!
Matt Esterman

Internet African History Sourcebook - 6 views

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    Various resources relating to all the Wiki topics.
Matt Esterman

Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African - 6 views

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    Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
Matt Esterman

The Chicago Manual of Style Online: Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide - 1 views

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    Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide The Chicago Manual of Style presents two basic documentation systems, the humanities style (notes and bibliography) and the author-date system. Choosing between the two often depends on subject matter and nature of sources cited, as each system is favored by different groups of scholars. The humanities style is preferred by many in literature, history, and the arts. This style presents bibliographic information in notes and, often, a bibliography. It accommodates a variety of sources, including esoteric ones less appropriate to the author-date system.
Matt Esterman

Taking Lecture and Class Notes - 0 views

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    Information presented in class often contains the central concepts of the course and the material most likely to be included on exams. Yet, students frequently do not realize the importance of notetaking and listening. The following handouts provide tips on how to recall more information from your lectures through active listening and purposeful notetaking. In addition, lecture notes can be a critical tool for preparing for exams. Suggestions are provided for how to use your notes regularly to review. The documents on this page are provided for downloading in Microsoft Word and/or Microsoft Excel format. You will need to have Microsoft Office 97/98, or later, to read and print them.
Matt Esterman

Unit 4: Expansion/Slavery | Stanford History Education Group - 3 views

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    Unit 4 primarily cover topics dealing with westward expansion during the nineteenth century.
Matt Esterman

Future Education Tech: Remember Open Courseware! - 0 views

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    LInks to MIT's open courses. If you're interested in what one of the world's leading universities is teaching - check it out!
Matt Esterman

Africa and Slavery, African Slave Trade - African History on the Internet - 4 views

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    Some good links to useful resources.
Matt Esterman

Slavery in Africa - 2 views

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    Great information here!
Matt Esterman

BBC - History: Abolition - 0 views

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    VERY useful website for ALL topics here - there is much information here from reliable sources.
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