Still Tomorrow follows Yu Xiuhua, a year-old woman living with cerebral Whose Streets? When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of the St.
Louis area and beyond. Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2. For 20 years, Lindy has lived with an unbearable feeling of guilt. Committed to fulfilling her civic duty, Lindy sat with 11 other people on a jury that handed down the death penalty to a Mississippi man convicted of a Singing With Angry Bird. Jae-Chang Kim runs a children's choir in Pune, India. Although his quick temper earned him the nickname "Angry Bird," he has made significant changes in the lives of the choir children.
But skeptical of the practical value of music Short Film Short Film. Ronald Clark's father was a custodian of a branch of the New York Public Library at a time when caretakers, along with their families, lived in the buildings. With his daughter, Jamilah, Ronald remembers literally growing up in a library A Conversation with My Black Son.
For generations, parents of black boys across the U. But when their boys become teenagers, parents must decide how to handle discussions about race. In this short film originally published by The Mother's Day. A faith-based discussion guide created by the Unitarian Universalist Association is available here. Additional resources are available here. I am organizing an event, are members of the family available to speak? Other family members and members of the filmmaking team are available under their own auspices.
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We all inherit a painful history and legacy not of our making. And we chafe against them in ways that put us at odds with each other. Given the great wrong that was committed and the persistence of inequality for black Americans, I believe it is incumbent on white Americans to break the stalemate first, to ask ourselves how we can take initiative. Instead, we need to be convinced to take a second look at some of our cherished myths — those that are often directly connected to stories about our families and ourselves and that thus carry a lot of emotional charge.
We will all take different measures. Humans suffer, cause suffering, are brave, are lazy, are scared, are greedy, are in search of love and happiness and right relationships. In that shared awareness, we can shoulder up next to each other and apply ourselves to the challenges of this day. Goodman, Diversity Consultant Dr. The feature-length minute documentary tracks what happens as filmmaker Katrina Browne comes to grips with the discovery that her New England ancestors were the largest slave- trading family in U.
Browne invites DeWolf descendants to join her in facing their shared past and its relationship to their own lives. Ghana to sugar plantations in Cuba and back. Theirs is an Photo courtesy of Laura Wulf emotional trek, with each step raising important questions about culpability and compassion, hurt and healing. It will provide an excellent springboard for slavery, it forces viewers to examine the mythology of Northern dialogue around how the legacy of slavery influences the lives innocence and the repercussions for race relations.
Photo courtesy of Katrina Browne Island. The most prominent member of this family, James DeWolf — , was a U. In the s and early s, DeWolf and his leading slave traders.
They brought approximately 10, brothers virtually built the economy of Bristol: Many of the Africans from the west coast of Africa to auction blocks in buildings they funded still stand, and the stained glass windows Charleston, South Carolina, and other southern U.
Across the generations, their family has included state sugar plantations in Cuba; and into their own homes. The family legislators, philanthropists, writers, scholars, and Episcopal continued in the trade despite state and federal laws prohibiting bishops and priests.
Their efforts to The DeWolf family fortune was built in part on buying and circumvent those laws eventually led them to arrange a political selling human beings.
Klein, eds. Today, there are as many as New England traders would send prices in the slave market had risen again. Those ships would then take their diversify their holdings and establish other, related businesses. There, they would sell the insurance company and rum distilleries. Eventually, James slaves and often buy cargos of sugar cane, molasses and other DeWolf invested in textile mills where — in an early example of goods produced with slave labor to bring north to markets in industrialization — cotton grown and harvested on southern New England.
Distillers in the northeast would then make rum slave plantations using inexpensive slave labor was spun into from the sugar cane, which in turn could be sold in Africa for fabric. The slave trade helped to build the growing economies of The DeWolf family found many ways to increase their profits northern seaports like Bristol and supported the economies of from the slave trade.
In Havana, Cuba, their ship captains could many towns along the New England coast and farther inland. If, however, prices were low when ships arrived, the wide variety of other tradesmen, merchants and farmers. New captains could send the enslaved Africans to sugar plantations York financial institutions were heavily invested in slavery.
In addition, those who invested in slaving them in the South and abroad. Although the majority of voyages came from almost all walks of life: although wealthy enslaved Africans arrived in southern ports — Charleston, families such as the DeWolfs were often significant investors, South Carolina, was the largest market for slave traders, smaller shares in voyages were owned by ordinary tradesmen including the DeWolfs — most large colonial ports served as and artisans, such as blacksmiths, masons, bakers, rope- points of entry, and Africans were sold in northern ports that makers, painters and those engaged in various other forms of included Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Newport, Rhode manual labor.
Behrendt, original colonies, and slavery was legal in the North for more David Richardson and Herbert S. As a result, New Jersey, for example, still had thousands of persons legally enslaved in the s, and did not finally abolish slavery by law Northern Involvement in the Slave Trade until As late as the outbreak of the Civil War, in fact, there A central fact obscured by post—Civil War mythologies is that were northern slaves listed on the federal census.
In the North, maritime industry. Rhode Island alone was responsible for half farms were smaller, and those farmers who owned slaves of all U. The DeWolfs may have been the generally had only a small number. And it was fairly common biggest slavers in U. For example, some members of the Brown family of households of farmers, merchants, ministers and others. Providence were prominent in the slave trade; the Brown family gave substantial gifts to Rhode Island College, which was later Sources: renamed Brown University.
Western traders arrived in ships loaded with manufactured goods to barter or trade for large-scale organization of European slave trading and the slaves. Those who were sold had often been captured in tribal development of industry and massive plantations dependent on warfare; some had simply been kidnapped to sell to European slave labor gave rise to a trade in humans that was staggering slave traders.
Approximately 10 million enslaved people were Slavery existed in Africa prior to the transatlantic trade, and in transported in the transatlantic slave trade, at rates of up to fact the earlier, trans-Saharan slave trade sent more enslaved , persons per year. Africans east to the Muslim world, over many centuries, than The remnants of the trade in Ghana are still visible today in would be transported west to the Americas. In addition to preservation efforts, economy based on the sugar cane and coffee crops and on Ghana has also made efforts to encourage descendants of slaves imported from Africa to work on the sugar and coffee enslaved Africans to learn more about their history.
It is estimated that more than , Africans Descendants may be eligible for special visas, and the were taken from West Africa and shipped to Cuba over the government has instituted programs to encourage Ghanaians course of three centuries, with tens of thousands dying during to welcome people from the African Diaspora. Most of these people were brought to Cuba between the s Sources: and the s, when the slave population rose from 39, to David Eltis, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson and Herbert S.
Despite the fact that the U. Schuster, Although Britain and the United States abolished their slave trades in and and Britain Sources: pressured Spain into formally ending the trade to Cuba in the s, Cuba remained one of the most common destinations for David Eltis, Stephen D.
The United States officially ended slavery with the passage of In the s and s, there was dramatic progress toward the 13th Amendment in There were various proposals to official acceptance of equality for those of all races. The grant freed black slaves compensation or at least assistance in Supreme Court struck down many laws that legalized discrim- establishing themselves as free citizens. Most prominent was ination, including those that permitted school segregation General William T. Board of Education and that disallowed interracial families near the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, marriage Loving v.
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