The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard
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Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout the world, but the Atlantic slave trade -- which forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas -- stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy. Anthony Hazard discusses the historical, economic and personal impact of this massive historical injustice.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Anthony Hazard
- Animator Mike Schell
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Narrator Addison Anderson
Slavery
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Slaves should've been given a better life
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Slaves should have lived a normal life
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Free the Slaves?
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Sugar as the root of all evil?
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Two questions.
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How does slavery make you feel?
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Slave
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y so mean to dem? we all da same when da lights r out. :)
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you would understand that if you've ever been to the movie theatre.
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Did the Africans ever try to rip off the Europeans?
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Why were they treated as if they were animals.
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what if the black was the dominater
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What do you think about the Atlantic Slave Trade? Why do you think people looked down upon Africa...
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Discuss slavery.
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The religious excuse.
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What do you think would have happened if African slavery did not change?
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Reparations to African Americans
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If Christianity hadn't justified it, how likely would have slavery been as bad as it was?
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The Racist ideologies are not still around to this day.
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Is ted deleting discussions?
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whyThe Portuguese were the first to engage in the New World slave trade in the 16th century. Betw...
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The abolitionists
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why slavery
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Do you think tight packing or loose packing would have been more profitable for the Europeans who...
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loose packing
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Aboard the ship
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How could the slave owners live with themselves knowing what they are doing to those innocent peo...
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How could this have happened?
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The African Americans should have been given greater acknowledgement for the creation of this nat...
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What would it be like if there was still slavery today?
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Why would they do something as terrible as that?
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How much do you think the captives knew when they were aboard the ships? Did they know where they...
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A Colorful Society
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Packing
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How many slaves died between the time they were captured and the time they got to the coast? What...
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tight or loose?
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What factors affected how much each slave went for when they got to America to be sold?
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If you could go back, how would you inform people that what they were doing was wrong?
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Why in the European mind were the Africans more “suitable” for slavery in the new world then in A...
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Would slavery still have happened to the extent it did if America was never found?
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How many African tribes were destroyed due to the slave trade?
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Middle passage
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Disgusting
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How is the slave trade working for ya?
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If slavery would've ended early in the Americas, what could have been the end result?
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How many slaves were impacted during this time?
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What do you think the world would be like if slavery still existed today?
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Do you think you would have made it through the Middle Passage?
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Would the slave trade have been as bad if we never found the New World?
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Tight or Loose?
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How did this all begin?
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Customs and Traditions
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Slavery
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Lipp's US 1 Class: Why now?
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Some mistakes in the lesson: the natives and the laws protecting them from the first moment of de...
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Some mistakes in lesson: the starting of the Atlantic slave trade.
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Florida 1693
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In the retrospect, do you think European use of white images and connecting all that whites as Go...
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What did this video illustrate the wasn't consistent with people being enslaved upon slave ships?
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Pilkington-African Slave Trade *What aspects of the lesson were new to you? *What surprised you a...
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africa
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why wer africans startyng wars
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why is it called the slave trade?
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Why was a such thing as SLAVERY it just so cruel and mean, anybody agree?
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was slavery needed for the country to thrive
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The Long-Lasting Impact of Slavery
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Slavery has brought so much racism and inequality in society today. Because of this, our society ...
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What would happen of slavery was never a thing in the first place?
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If you were a slave, would you stand up?
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To understand slavery in oppression is to understand the history and purpose of Capoeira.
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years ago, Africans were used as slaves. they brought the slaves to Europe through the Atlantic o...
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From prisoner of the tribe become slave for a country.
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How does slavery make you feel?
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slavery bad
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The Atlantic slave trade
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What do you think would happen if slavery never happened at all?
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how do you feel about slavery
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Slavery is so UNCOOL. 😤
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Why were the slaves in the boat were poorly treated so badly,were to the point they lose faith?
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Video impacts
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Why is important to know that many people decided to look for reasons it was okay to enslave othe...
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Slaves should be treated differently?
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Why the slaves should have had freedom
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Slavery would have ended even without a revolution because of the technological revolution
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I hate slavery.
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Slave Reparations
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how can racism be eradicated today?
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