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hi did you know that the british won the french and indian war!!!:(:(:(

Slavery is the practice where one human being is treated as the property of another human being. This practice is almost as old as human civilization. Slavery was prevalent in many ancient cultures such as Mesopotamia, and there is reference to it as an established practice in ancient Greece, [|Rome] and [|Egypt]. In the Code of Hammurabi, dated as far back as 1760BC, there are laws about how to treat slaves. Once human beings moved past the hunter-gatherer stage and started tilling the land and forming towns, levels or stratification started appearing in society. It was no longer just a matter of everyone growing or killing what they or their family needed to eat. People were engaging in taking care of land and in bartering for goods and services. Those who had more resources were able to command a more important position in society. So, it became important to find other people to do the work on the land - this was when the idea of using other people as slaves started. So, much as a trader or rich farmer would own horses, cows or goats, he owned people who would do whatever he wanted. At this time, slavery was not based on race or color but was more often based on wealth.

The wealthy class would have slaves. These slaves were often prisoners of war from another town or country. They were sometimes also people who had borrowed money from the wealthy people and were unable to pay back the debt. Those who were very poor sometimes sold their children to be slaves to other families. Children born to slaves automatically became slaves. It was considered legal to use such people as slaves. Slaves in the early times were most often from within the same community as the owners. Then came the period when there were prisoners from warring nations. In the Middle Ages there were prisoners of religious wars who were captured and used as slaves. It was in the time of the [|Industrial Revolution] that the international slave trade really became very busy. The Portuguese are said to be the first European nation that started the slave trade from Sub Saharan Africa to their colonies in the Americas, what was then called the New World. Human labor was needed in the sugar and cotton plantations and all the European countries who were trying to establish themselves in [|North America], South America and the Caribbean brought slaves from Africa to work in their plantations. The African slaves were treated like cargo on the ship and the conditions were inhumane in the plantations also

While there had been people at various times in history who pointed out that it was wrong to treat fellow human beings as property, the social practice was widely accepted. It is in more recent time in human history that slavery has truly been treated with horror. The abolitionist movement was aimed at making people aware of the terrible reality of slavery. Families were torn apart and men, women and children were made to feel like animals because of the way they were treated. In the United States, the disagreement over slavery led to the [|Civil War]. The disagreement was between people who wanted to continue the practice because it made economic sense and those who felt that a country born on the basis of individual freedom and liberty should not allow slavery. This war lead to the freedom of slaves in the United States and similar developments happened in many countries and communities. However, today there is still the notion of bonded labor in many countries, and women and children from war-torn countries are sometimes exploited by unscrupulous people who sell them into positions of slave labor. There are organizations that watch and track Human Rights violations which report on such situations to raise global awareness of this continuing problem.

where did they keep slaves ?? they held them in plantations example is harriet tubman was a slave at mr.thomsons plantation

In 1912, the South Africa Native National Congress was formed in Bloemfontein and became known the African National Congress (ANC) with the goal of eliminating restrictions based on skin color. In 1948, the National Party (NP) won the all-white elections and began passing legislation codifying and enforcing the policy of white dominance and racial separation known as "apartheid" (pronounced apart-hate). Nelson Mandela and many other anti-apartheid leaders were convicted and imprisoned on trumped-up charges of attempting to overthrow the state. In May 1961, South Africa relinquished its dominion status and declared itself a republic. In February 1990, State President F. W. de Klerk-who had come to power in 1989-announced the unbanning of the ANC and all other anti-apartheid groups. Two weeks later Nelson Mandela was released from prison. The country's first nonracial elections were held on April 26 to 29, 1994, resulting in the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as President on May 10, 1994. He was suceeded by Thabo Mbeki. The past decade has witnessed a growing prosperity as South Africa has been able to access world markets, but this prosperity has benefitted only a few Blacks and Whites, and large numbers of poor Blacks remain un- or under-employed and very poor. The unemployment rate is 26% and 50% of the people are in poverty. To add to the problems the country faces, 21% of the population or 5.3 million people are HIV positive.

pennies for patience was last week and the winners are ﻿ ﻿the six graders !!!!!!!!!! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

i think the fifth graders won