 March
2005
Lest We Forget:
The Triumph Over Slavery
High-tech site from the New York Public Library.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
http://digital.nypl.org/lwf/
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CONTENT:
This site was developed by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture, New York Public Library, in conjunction with UNESCO’s
slave route project. It chronicles the rise and fall of slavery in
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SITE DESIGN:
This beautifully designed site is well organized and easy to navigate.
The major sections of the site are graphically depicted in the bottom
navigation bar. Mousing over the graphic reveals the title of the
section. Internal pages have a scrolling bar of primary documents
on the right side of the screen. The site is available in four languages:
English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Flash Player is required.
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REVIEW:
The story of triumph over slavery unfolds on this Web site in nine
successive chapters beginning with A New People and ending with
a discussion of the Expressive Culture of African Americans. The
opening section includes a discussion of the African American heritage
and how Europeans, Native Americans and Asians all played a part
in the ethnic, racial, and cultural makeup of these “new people”.
Other sections chronicle the development of the system of slavery
from ancient empires to the nineteenth century and the unique characteristics
of the slave trade in the Americas while others discuss the development
of family life, religion, education and the influence of Africans
on music, art, speech and dress in the United States. Visitors will
find artifacts and historical documents that depict the horrors
and indignities suffered by Africans as they were bought and sold
and worked on the sugar plantations of Brazil and the cotton plantations
of the southern U. S.. The Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition
includes a discussion of the Africans who ran away to freedom and
worked for the abolishment of slavery and the anti-slavery that
finally brought about its abolishment with the Civil War.
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