The Slave Ship

[Linda Anderson]

(11-14-2014 06:30 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Mike - RE: "...when the topic of slavery is brought up we immediately reflect solely on America's History" - the Wiki article does by far not, and it's absolutely worth reading:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery

Thank you, Eva, for your wonderful research on this appalling topic. I think the reason Americans think solely of American slavery is because the history of slavery is part of our culture as well as our history.

Books and films like Gone with the Wind, Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Uncle Tom's Cabin (people may not read the book nowadays but the term "Uncle Tom" has come to mean a subservient black person), Beloved, Amistad, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (I still remember Cicely Tyson drinking from the "white" drinking fountain), Speilberg's Lincoln, and especially Roots, which was a huge bestseller and acclaimed miniseries in the 1970s, are works of art that most people are familiar with. More recent works about slavery are 12 Years a Slave, Django Unchained and Laurie Halse Anderson's middle grade novel Chains.

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