We have to find and draw something that represents slavery in the U.S. during the early 1800s. The slave related item should show the evolution and chronology of slavery beginning from the 1600s to the 1850s. Can anyone please provide any GOOD examples of a symbolic and slave related reference? Examples shouldn't be literal, but rather symbolic. I don't need a big explanation unless you think I would find it useful, but just ideas is what I'm looking for. For example a cotton plant (the roots being the roots of slavery starting from the slavs in europe with the portugese and the carribean and sugar cane. and the flowering of the plant is symbolic to the flowering of the southern economy and a falling leaf for abolitionists, the stem representing the passages in which the slaves traveled and were traded ect.) obviously I can't use this example since it belongs to the teacher, but if anyone can suggest anything similar I would really appreciate it and I thank you in advance.
2006-11-09 11:56:49 · 1 answers · asked by Hola Lola! 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The ghastly human triangle that ran from Jamaica to New England to Africa (sugar shipped from Jamaica to New England, where it was distilled into rum, where it was shipped to Africa, where it was traded for slaves, who were shipped to Jamaica to grow more sugar).
2006-11-09 12:27:29 · answer #1 · answered by blueprairie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This may be stupid, but how about a train to allude to the Underground Railroad? Or a star like the North Star? Negative items that come to mind would be a whip, chains. Tobacco was another staple crop, similar to the cotton theme.
This is a tough assignment! Hope some of these ideas help. :)
2006-11-09 12:11:19 · answer #2 · answered by BethS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋