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    on all of his voyages. (questions 3–5) Vessel Name Year Arrived with Slaves Principal Region of Slave Purchase Principal Region of Slave Landing Duke of Argyle 1751 Windward Coast Antigua African 1753 Windward Coast St. Kitts African 1754 Sierra Leone St. Kitts With the information provided‚ complete the following chart: (Hint: the Summary Statistics tab will make this easier) Number of Voyages Number of Slaves Embarked Number of Slaves Disembarked Percentage who died on voyage Length

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    years old. I have just come off of a train transporting me to a plantation in America. I have been separated from all of my family (my mother‚ father‚ my brother and my sister) and I am most likely going to a different plantation. I was living in Sierra Leone when I got kidnapped. My tribe was a peaceful one‚ and we weren’t in any wars at the time‚ but while all of our tribe was asleep‚ another tribe ambushed us in the middle of the night. Our tribe leader was killed in the attack and about half of

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    Vessel Name Year Arrived with Slaves Principal Region of Slave Purchase Principal Region of Slave Landing Duke of Argyle 1751 Windward Coast Antigua African 1753 Windward Coast St. Kitts African 1754 Sierra Leone St. Kitts With the information provided‚ complete the following chart: (Hint: the Summary Statistics tab will make this easier) Number of Voyages Number of Slaves Embarked Number of Slaves Disembarked Percentage who died on voyage Length

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    White conceptions of enslavement by Britain: In the wake of the Stamp Act crisis‚ some Americans began to speak and write about a plot by British leaders to enslave them. In their view‚ the opposite of liberty was slavery‚ the condition of being under someone else’s control. A Maryland writer warned that if the colonies lost “the right of exemption from all taxes without their consent‚” that loss would “deprive them of every privilege distinguishing freemen from slaves.” Slavery was a concept with

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    It involves large‚ rich‚ prosperous countries such as the United Kingdom‚ the USA‚ France and Russia selling weapons to other countries. Over 75% of the weapons sold by the UK in 1989 were sold to poor‚ developing countries such as South Korea‚ Sierra Leone and Liberia. At first‚ there may seem to be nothing wrong with this common practice but a closer look reveals the brutality and horror behind this industry. As I previously said the majority of the weapons are sold to impoverished countries

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    on all of his voyages. (Questions 3–5) Vessel Name Year Arrived with Slaves Principal Region of Slave Purchase Principal Region of Slave Landing Duke of Argyle 1751 Windward Coast Antigua African 1753 Winward Coast St Kitts African 1754 Sierra Leone St. Kitts With the information provided‚ complete the following chart: (Hint: the Summary Statistics tab will make this easier) Number of Voyages Number of Slaves Embarked Number of Slaves Disembarked Percentage who died on voyage Length of

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    Dave Dilebre Composition I Professor gould February 18‚ 2014 Review of “Amistad” by Sally Hadden summary Amistad begins with the event that made the ships history different from other slave ships. Cinque also known as Sengbe feed himself and his fellow slaves. They overthrew the ships crew killing all the spanish sailors but two in order to sail back to africa. The two men that were left of the crew managed to trick their new found captors and sail to new york. The initial trial

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    Gone By Ishmael Beah

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    A Long Way From False Child soldiers often have a hard time returning to a normal life after war. Ishmael Beah‚ however‚ showed that he can do it and so can others. He lost his entire family in Sierra Leone’s civil war and the government recruited him as a soldier in his early teens and went on to write his memoir about it‚ A Long Way Gone. As hard as it was for him to go through and relive these memories to write his story‚ people still question the memoir’s validity. Despite what many articles

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    Blood Diamond Study Note

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    Fisherman Dia Vandy (see me no more) Jassie Vandy – Solomon’s Wife Captain Poison Benjamin Kapanay M’Ed Ambassador Walker Diamond Traders Diamond Traders Rudolf Van De Kaap Rupert Simmonds SETTING Sierra Leone 1996-1999 Civil War THEMES R.U.F (Revolutionary United Front) T.I.A (This is Africa) SCENE 1 Early Morning Solomon with his son Dia telling him to go to school so one day he can become a doctor instead of a fisherman like his Dad. SCENE

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    Biome Essay

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    Savanna The African Savanna biome is a tropical grassland in Africa between latitude 15° North and 30 degrees S and longitude 15 degrees W and 40° West. It covers Guinea‚ Sierra Leone‚ Liberia‚ Cote D’ivore‚ Ghana‚ Togo‚ Benin‚ Nigeria‚ Cameroon‚ Central African Republic‚ Chad‚ Sudan‚ Ethiopia‚ Somalia‚ and the Democratic Republic of the Congo‚ Angola‚ Uganda‚ Rwanda‚ Burundi‚ Kenya‚ Tanzania‚ Malawi‚ Zambia‚ Zimbabwe‚ Mozambique‚ Botswana‚ and South Africa. Around 2 million large plant-eating

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