Year 9 Into the Modern World

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Year 9Into the Modern World

• How did our ideas about human rights develop?

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What do we mean by Human Rights?

• Equality
• Equal opportunities
• Right to believe
• Freedom of expression
• Access to education and jobs
• Individual choice

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Slavery and Civil Rights

• One half term unit
• Concepts of Slavery why?
• Beginnings of Britains involvement
• The triangular trade
• Experiences of enslaved people
• The Campaign for Abolition
• Civil rights in the USA
• Why this is important today

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Rules for working in books

• Date
• Title centred and underlined
• Write in blue or black
• Drawings and diagrams in pencil
• Be careful with felts
• Always stick in sheets in order
• Come to the lesson with all your equipment

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How old is Slavery?

• The main religious texts of Judaism, Islam and
  Christianity all recognise slaves as a separate
  class of people in society.
• Going back further in time the Mayans and Aztecs
  kept slaves in the Americas, as did the Sumerians
  and Babylonians in the Near East.
• The Egyptians employed huge numbers of slaves,
  including the Jews, Europeans and
  Ethiopians.The Greeks and Romans kept slaves as
  soldiers, servants, labourers and even civil
  servants. The Romans captured slaves from what is
  now Britain, France and Germany.
• Slave armies were kept by the Ottomans and
  Egyptians.
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How did people become slaves?
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• In Africa there were a number of societies and
  kingdoms which kept slaves, before there was any
  regular commercial contact with Europeans,
  including the Asanti, the Kings of Bonny and
  Dahomey.

SONGHAYThe young Moroccan traveller and
commentator, Leo Africanus, was amazed at the
wealth and quantity of slaves to be found in Gao,
the capital of Songhay, which he visited in 1510
and 1513 when the empire was at the height of its
power under Askiya Mohammed."...here there is a
certain place where slaves are sold, especially
on those days when the merchants are assembled.
And a young slave of fifteen years of age is sold
for six ducats, and children are also sold. The
king of this region has a certain private palace
where he maintains a great number of concubines
and slaves."
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• In East Africa a slave trade was well established
  before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was
  driven by the sultanates of the Middle East.
  African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia,
  pearl divers in the Gulf, soldiers in the Omani
  army and workers on the salt pans of Mesopotamia
  (modern Iraq). Many people were domestic slaves,
  working in rich households. Women were taken as
  sex slaves.

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So, Slavery was nothing new but how and why did
Britain get involved

• The answer has a lot to do with this