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**http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/paternalism** **http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/paternal.htm** **http://www.thefreedictionary.com/yeoman** **http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2487** **http://www.answers.com/topic/cobb-thomas-reade-rootes**
 * Transatlantic slave trade**
 * http://library.thinkquest.org/13406/ta/ **
 * http://africanhistory.about.com/od/slavery/tp/TransAtlantic001.htm **
 * Slaves Clothing**
 * http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/gorean/clothing.html **
 * Paternalism**
 * http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paternalism/ **
 * "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe**
 * http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/utc/ **
 * Yeoman**
 * http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yeoman?show=0&t=1324319851 **
 * Thomas Reade Cobb**
 * Appalachians and Ozarks**


 * Transatlantic Slave Trade:**

Below is the movie trailer for Amazing Grace which talks about a man who was on a mission to stop the Slave Trade. Enjoy!

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Transatlantic Slave Trade was the cruelest form of slavery. Rich men had slaves in their households. The slaves were usually men and women captured in war whose labor led to surplus production and whose numbers amplified the armies of imperial expansion. In most parts, slaves born within the master's household "house slaves" were treated better than war captives or trade slaves--often as members of the family. A master had full control of the slaves. The inhumane treatment the slaves received made the Transatlantic Slave Trade a monstrosity. The transatlantic Slave Trade dehumanized people and turned them into labor units. These slaves received the minimum amounts of everything, including food, clothes and shelter.

Therefore, by 1806 this Transatlantic Slave Trade was deemed illegal. Twenty-eight countries including the United States of Amercia signed a petition to end the slave trade. The trans-atlantic slave trade database holds information on almost 35,000 slave voyages. This embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between 1450-1750.


 * Slave Clothing:**

First and foremost a slave did not own anything he was only allowed to wear things his or her master gave him. Some things slaves wore were simple beads, mostly made of scrap metal. A Camisk, a simple garment about 18 inches wide and shaped like a poncho just long enough to cover the slaves' behind. Baggy pants made of silk called Chalwars. The kalmak is a vest of black leather worn by slave girls of the Wagon Peoples. The kes is a short tunic of black leather worn by male slaves of the Wagon Peoples. Slaves also wore bells that were threaded on an old thong and locked around a girls waist, ankles or collar. These bells give off a distinct sound.

Slave girls also had pierced ears. Now a days males and females have piercings. Unlike nose piercing, a practice common among Free Women of the Wagon Peoples, and sometimes used to increase the beauty of female slaves ear; piercings were a symbol of slavery. If a woman had her ears pierced it was considered a "slave for life". The piercing of a girl's ears is considered the ultimate moral or intellectual decadence.




 * Paternalism: **

Definition of Paternalism is the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations etc. Paternalism is the right and duty of parents to override the preferences of their children in favor of their real or true interests. "Paternalism" comes from the Latin //pater//, meaning to act like a father, or to treat another person like a child.


 * "Uncle Tom's Cabin": **

A little history about Harriet Beecher Stowe; she was a wife and mother who lived in Cincinnati. She met former and fugitive enslaved people. Stowe knew about slavery before she moved to Ohio. Her own grandmother kept African American servants who had originally been enslaved, and her father had preached in favor of the colonization movement, supporting the creation of Liberia as a settling point for freed people. In Ohio, Stowe heard first hand stories from former enslaved people; witnessed slavery while visiting Kentucky; and employed fugitives in her home.

Stowe's best known novel, //Uncle Tom's Cabin// published in 1852, started out as a weekly newspaper but yet changed how Americans viewed slavery til this day. It was a big seller selling 10,000 copies in the United States its first week; 300,000 in the first year; and in Great Britain, 1.5 million copies in one year.




 * Yeoman:**

A Yeoman is an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household, one that performs great and loyal service, a guard, petty officer performing chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy, a member of a class of small freeholders of common birth who cultivated their own land. In English history, yeoman was a social class between the gentry and the laborers. A yeoman was usually a landholder.


 * Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb:**

Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb was born at Cherry Hill, a plantation in Jefferson County on April 10, 1823. He was a lawyer, confederate, politician, and a General. He was killed in a battle.