The poll is closed:
Migration 17
Kidnapping 10
I KNOW that this poll is not reflective of how
the students in this class feel. I found out some
voted more than once and knew they were voting against
what they believed as a "joke." This is NO JOKE to
the decedents of African Slaves.
We are going to talk about this in class Monday.
Some of you feel so strongly about this being kidnapping,
you have written essays about it and I think that will
really help with our discussion.
Three books recommended by Mrs. Evans are:
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor (Jr high/high school)
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis ( Jr. high/ high school)
Roots by Alex Haley (books or VHS available at the library) (Adult)
Original post:
Were the African slaves Immigrants? Note sure? Read further,
then vote in the poll (right)
Webster's, which describes the meaning of the word "immigrate" in the following terms: "to go or remove into a new country, region, or environment in order to settle there." Webster's defines "emigrate" as follows: "to leave one country, state, or region and settle in another, for the purpose of residence." The key words here are "in order to settle there," and "for the purpose of residence." Migration involves the conscious, willfully agency of the migrant.CLUE:
HUMAN MIGRATION (immigration/emigration) IS CONCEIVED AND EXECUTED BY THE MIGRANT."
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3898 By Paul Street
Immigration history website
"On arrival, most of the new captives were moved into holding pens, separated from their shipmates, and put up for auction. They then faced the challenge of surviving in a society that had declared each of them to be private property and that was organized to maintain their subservient status. In the eyes of the law and of most non-African Americans, they had no authority to make decisions about their own lives and could be bought, sold, tortured, rewarded, educated, or killed at a slaveholder's will. All the most crucial things in the lives of the enslaved African American-from the dignity of their daily labor to the valor of their resistance, from the comforts of family to the pursuit of art, music, and worship-all had to be accomplished in the face of slave society's attempt to deny their humanity."
From: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/alt/african4.html
Do you think the slaves WANTED to live here?
Did they conceive the idea to come here?
Did they have the option to leave freely and go-on to another
territory, the North or home, for example? Mrs. Evans pointed out
that in the story Elijah of Buxton, by Mildred Taylor, the slaves
escaping on the Underground Railroad, or moving after the
Emancipation Proclamation is true migration.
Mrs. Richardson
