Social Studies. 'Fakebook'! Create a Fake Facebook Profile using this generator. American history. The American Civil War. Pictured: The freed slave behind moving letter to old master after he was asked back to work on farm. By Associated Press Published: 18:40 GMT, 16 July 2012 | Updated: 13:09 GMT, 17 July 2012 The photograph, scratched and undated, is captioned 'Brother Jordan Anderson'. He is a middle-aged black man with a long beard and a righteous stare, as if he were a preacher locking eyes with a sinner, or a judge about to dispatch a thief to the gallows. Anderson was a former slave who was freed from a Tennessee plantation by Union troops in 1864 and spent his remaining 40 years in Ohio.
He lived quietly and probably would have been forgotten, if not for a remarkable letter to his former master published in a Cincinnati newspaper shortly after the Civil War. Scathing: Former slave Jordan Anderson (left) wrote a satirical letter in 1865 to his old master after he was asked to return to work for him. Treasured as a social document, praised as a masterpiece of satire, Anderson’s letter has been anthologized and published all over the world. Addressed to one Col. Enlarge Roy E. 'Harvest is coming on. Columbus and Columbia : a pictorial history of ... War Records for American Wars. United States Historical Maps. Historical Maps of the United States Historical Maps of U.S. CitiesHistorical Maps of TexasHistorical Maps of Texas CitiesMaps of National Historic Parks, Memorials, Military Parks and BattlefieldsNational Atlas of the United States of America (1970)Pre-1945 Topographic Maps of the United StatesU.S.
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Young-earth creationists and Intelligent Design (ID) advocates love debates. I recently returned from Richmond, Virginia, where I debated Stephen Meyer, head of the Discovery Institute, the heart of the anti-evolutionary intelligent design movement. The debate topic was “Should Christians Embrace Darwin? West’s claim is politically expedient. ID is only superficially supportive of Christian belief, a point I made in the debate. Meet Jane, the 14-year-old eaten when the first British settlers in America turned to cannibalism: The macabre secrets of starving pioneers besieged by Red Indians. Skull of a 14-year-old girl, named 'Jane of Jamestown', shows scratch marks Anthropologists from the Smith-sonian National Museum of Natural History analysed her skull and severed leg bones Dr Douglas Owsley said bones evidence of 'survival cannibalism' Human remains date back to the deadly winter of 1609-1610, known as the 'starving time' in Jamestown, when hundreds of colonists died By Annabel Venning for MailOnline Published: 22:35 GMT, 15 May 2013 | Updated: 22:35 GMT, 15 May 2013 She had arrived in America only a few months earlier.
After a stormy 16-week voyage across the Atlantic, Jane, a 14-year-old girl from southern England, would have been relieved to reach land when she scrambled ashore at Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America, in August 1609. But any sense of salvation was to be short-lived. For, soon afterwards, the colony began to starve. A facial reconstruction of 'Jane of Jamestown' who archeologists believe was dug up and eaten by settlers. Lewis Hine: Harrowing images of child labourers that show children as young as three forced to do back-breaking work in fields, factories and mines.
Lewis Hine's photographs for the National Child Labor Committee helped bring in laws protecting youngsters He toured America to capture children at work in fields, mines, factories or making a living on the streets By Becky Evans Published: 10:01 GMT, 8 April 2013 | Updated: 11:05 GMT, 8 April 2013 He is most famous for his stunning images of men working hundreds of feet up on the Empire State Building. But photographer Lewis Hine's real legacy is the collection of pictures he took of children in factories, fields and sweatshops, which highlighted the appalling conditions they were made to work in at the beginning of the 20th Century. The images, taken for the National Child Labor Committee, shamed America and helped change the laws surrounding child workers.
A 11-year-old young girl gazes out of the window during a break from her factory work in Lincolnton, North Carolina. She was one of scores of child laborers pictured by investigative photographer Lewis Hine. The haunting images of workers as young as EIGHT in Massachusetts mill that helped change child labor laws. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 19:28 GMT, 27 September 2012 | Updated: 19:33 GMT, 27 September 2012 Youngsters today may lie about their ages to sneak into movies or bars, but a century ago, the fibbing stakes were considerably higher - as children routinely lied to keep their families above the poverty line.
Haunting images taken at mills in Winchendon, Massachusetts in 1911 capture the faces of children as young as eight as they illegally endured unsafe conditions, long hours and poor pay to keep their families from starving. In a sad twist, the workers spent their hours making wooden toys - from doll furniture, drums and building blocks - for other youngsters who did not have to spend their childhood and adolescence cooped up inside the mills' four walls. While children under the age of 12 were not legally allowed to work in the mills, Hine noted that many appeared much younger, while others claimed they were older in order to be able to work longer hours. President Franklin D. 18th-century American Women.