Slavery

Cecilie Neumann Jensen Studieportalen.dk Engelsk eksamens opgave 2.HTX 15

Table of contents

Slavery .......................................................................................................................... 2 List of literature:......................................................................................................... 2 Books and text:........................................................................................................... 3 Description of Slavery ................................................................................................. 4 Description of a slaveowner....................................................................................... 4 The life for a slave........................................................................................................ 6 Transport to the US .................................................................................................... 6 Work and social life ................................................................................................... 6 Housing ...................................................................................................................... 7 Food and clothes ........................................................................................................ 7 Punishment................................................................................................................. 8 Slave breeding............................................................................................................ 8 Slave trade and economy ............................................................................................ 9 Slave trade firms ........................................................................................................ 9 Slavery in Southern America ................................................................................... 10 Abolitionist movement .............................................................................................. 13 The Constitutional Congress’ performing ............................................................... 14 The final end of slavery ........................................................................................... 15 Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 16

18-08-2006

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Cecilie Neumann Jensen Studieportalen.dk

Engelsk eksamens opgave

2.HTX 15

Slavery

I chose to work with the subject Slavery because I find to interesting. I want to know more about how the slaves were treated, about the economy in slave trade and why none of the slaves fought against the white Americans. I want to try to find something about the abolition of slavery.

List of literature: http://www.innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html A homepage with a chronology of the history of slavery from 1619 to the 1990’s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery A homepage about the definitions of slavery and about the slavery in different countries