Fountains, along with ponds, provide a major boost in your landscaping game. Allowing the natural tendency of water to soothe and relax you, either through looking at it or simply by listening to its sound, they become great additions to your garden, especially if you integrate decorative fish species within them.
Concrete can actually be used in enhancing the aesthetics of your landscaping. Although regarded as gray and bland, there are actually several colored and textures concrete in the market out there. This makes for a durable and lastingly bright addition to your garden.
Last we're going to tackle are shrubs. They can be used for a lot of things, especially for breeding of specimen pants, act as privacy enhancing covers, and as foundation plantings as well. Shrubs have a wide variety of colors to choose from, and this can allow a pleasing textured accent into the colors of your landscape.
Resilience, Identity, Freedom: A Brief Narrative on The African-American Slave Trade
Although at present its merit and value are widely regarded as taboo, slavery once formed the backbone of entire economies, of entire countries. Without it, something as economically rudimentary as a plantation would fall, or at the very least, have its profit cut by an extremely significant amount. It is technically correct, then, to place slavery during those times as a necessary evil—but of course, this statement is coming from someone who has languished in the luxury of industrialization, whose back has suffered nothing worse than a sunburn, and whose value of freedom is nonexistent simply because he has never once experienced having it taken from him.
Slavery was a horrific and barbaric human act. Race, religion, economy; all these things matter very little when put side by side with the list of animal traits a person was supposed to have, simply because he was unlucky enough to be born from the womb of a subjugated mother. However, despite my strong distaste of the practice, it is essential for us to revisit, study, and understand slavery in order to better secure the future from it. Once we become fully aware of its horrors, of the suffering it has inflicted upon generations of individuals no different from you or me, the emotional and academic capital we've invested in it would hopefully inculcate in us the awareness needed to reject slavery's economic gains.
To concisely do the revisiting, we may condense the history of the African-American struggle for independence and basic human rights into two key events, the start and the end of the five major resistances throughout America's slave history. Unlike their counterparts in Brazil, Cuba, Suriname and Haiti, American slaves never really successfully overthrew slavery. This suppression eventually generated a plethora of underlying, smaller resistances against the institution which eventually culminated to the latter of the two events we are going to speak about.
The Stono Rebellion of 1739 was the largest resistance against the institution of slavery in history of the 13 colonies. On Sunday, Sept. 9, 173, under the leadership of a slave named "Jemmy", 20 slaves marched across the colony, heading towards St. Augustine, Florida. Armed with their skills from the Yamasee War and their personal experiences from either being sold or captured in Angola, the men swept through a warehouse-like store from the Stono River, executing all white Americans they set their eyes to and hanged their heads on the front steps for everyone else to see.
The march gained momentum as the desire for liberty and much wanted retribution fueled other slaves to participate, ballooning the original 20 to a staggering 100. All the areas the march passed by was stripped of white people, their blood soaking King's Highway until it headed to St. Augustine, Florida, where they would technically be free under Spanish rule, all while crying in their native Kikongo the word for "Liberty!"
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