|Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute||Home| Beryl Bailey and
Marcella Flake In an effort to correct this misrepresentation of
a people and to instill pride and a positive self-image in our
African-American students, we will provide information about the
primary role that African-Americans played in American history
and in liberating themselves from one of the most oppressive
conditions that any race of people ever endured, slavery. First,
we will address the issue of slavery. We will discuss the
capture and selling of Africans by Africans, as well as by
whites. We will briefly discuss Africa’s system of slavery and
compare its counterpart in Africa. We will then discuss the
triangular trade, the dehumanizing saga of the middle passage,
and its psychological effect upon the African captive. Second,
we will discuss the underground railroad, the method through
which many slaves obtained liberation. Our focus will be on the
emancipators and their role in the mind/body liberation of the
slaves. We use the term mind/