Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Roll over names of designated regions on the map above for descriptions of the role of each in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The North American mainland played a relatively minor role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Its ports sent out less than five percent of all known voyages, and its slave markets absorbed less than four percent of all slaves carried off from Africa. An intra-American trade in slaves – originating in the Caribbean - supplied additional slaves, however. This region was exceptional in the Americas in that a positive rate of natural population growth began relatively early, thus reducing the dependence of the region on coerced migrants. The Caribbean was one of the two major broad regional markets for slaves from Africa. ARC Galleries. Our Courts - Homepage. Art Spiegelman. PND - RFPs Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Seeks Applicants for Congressional Internships, Fellowships, and Scholarships. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute , an educational and youth leadership development organization, has launched a national campaign to recruit Hispanic students — undergraduate and graduate — for its nationally recognized youth development leadership programs.
Guidelines and applications for the following programs are now available at the CHCI Web site: The Congressional Internship Program provides college students with Congressional placements on Capitol Hill for a summer period of eight weeks (June to August 2008) and a winter period of twelve weeks (January to April 2009) to learn first-hand about the United States' legislative processes. Housing, travel, and a $2,500 stipend are provided. (Deadline: January 31, 2008.) The Public Policy Fellowship Program, conducted from September to May, provides college graduates with hands-on public policy experience in a congressional office, federal agency, nonprofit sector, or corporate setting.
Primary Subject: Education. Gilder Lehrman Institute's The Great Depression Site. Reflections on "Voices from the Great Depression" C-SPAN Classroom. Curriculum - Letter-scanning project brings history to life. Mapping out a new world orderdelicious. By Matthew Knight For CNN LONDON, England (CNN) -- As familiar and reassuring as the map of the world is, there is only so much that physical geography can tell us about the state of the planet.
Forest loss: This cartogram shows areas where the worst deforestation occured from 1990 to 2000. A new book, The Atlas of the Real World, has redrawn the map giving vivid new insights and bringing economic, social and environmental data to life. Not since the German meteorologist, Alfred Wegener, sketched out the first detailed theories of continental drift has the world appeared so misshapen, so otherworldly. The 366 cartograms (statistical maps) which make up the book twist, shrink and distend countries and continents into all sorts of shapes and sizes. Work on the project began in earnest in 2006 when Dorling teamed up with Newman, who had co-created a new software technique for creating equal area cartograms the year before. There are other sobering statistics to consider. Pictorial Americana: Table of Contents (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress) Timelines - Create a Timeline and Share - circaVie.
Curriculum - Letter-scanning project brings history to life. Abstracted from "Curriculum Administrator 1999 Web Site Awards" by Odvard Egil DyrliRead more by eSchool News February 1st, 2000 Curriculum Administrator magazine recently recognized what its editors consider the top curriculum web sites developed by companies, educational organizations, and individual schools.
The top three sites, designated as “Platinum Award” winners, are: Classroom Connect ( This site offers teachers extensive links to web sites with educational material in art and music, math, health and physical education, language arts and languages, and science. The site also offers a database of educators developing online learning tools, an activity-each-day curriculum, and listings of teacher resources and materials. Global SchoolNet Foundation’s “Global Schoolhouse” ( With its International Schools CyberFair competition, Global Schoolhouse continues to inspire educators to improve web-based learning projects.
Frederick Douglass Project. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and the Frederick Douglass Institute welcome you to the University of Rochester Frederick Douglass Project.
This project seeks to digitize all of the Frederick Douglass materials held in the collections of the University of Rochester Library. The work will be undertaken by undergraduates, that they may have a greater understanding of Douglass by working with the letters and newspapers he composed. Frederick Douglass spent 25 crucial years of activism in Rochester. The University's collections hold over 100 letters that date from before the Civil War, when Douglass was editor of The North Star, an anti-slavery newspaper which he published in Rochester, to a few years prior to his death in 1895.