Course: History 101 - Week 4 Annotated Bibliography on Slavery

This annotated bibliography explores the complex relationship between slavery and education through an analysis of three key sources. The first annotation examines a report on Roma education, highlighting the historical parallels between the Roma and African Americans, emphasizing the detrimental effects of slavery, poverty, and lack of education. The second annotation focuses on an article discussing the global impact of slavery, particularly in the United States and Benin, and argues for the importance of education as a human right to combat the lingering effects of racism. The final annotation delves into personal experiences of slavery, detailing the struggles of African Americans to access education and the ways in which education was used to seek freedom, illustrating the incompatibility of slavery and education. The bibliography underscores how the lack of education perpetuates cycles of oppression, emphasizing the importance of educational access to overcome the legacy of slavery and discrimination.

Week 4 Annotations 1
Week 4: Annotated Bibliography
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Thesis- People in the past have suffered from the serious problem of slavery, and the
compatibility between Slavery and Education has been poor. Also, the women are generally
(statistically) better at school in the African American community than their male
counterparts.

Week 4 Annotations 2
Annotation 3:
Author’s name and publication detail-
Greenberg, J., 2010. Report on Roma education today: From slavery to segregation and beyond.
Columbia Law Review, pp.919-1001.
Annotation detail-
In this paper, the author has given a historical background of the Roma in the Eastern Europe and
the background of the African Americans who walked on similar paths with regard to slavery. It
has been mentioned here that during the nineteenth century, they were emancipated
simultaneously but for many years they suffered from poverty, discrimination, poor housing, bad
health and lack of educational facilities. During the World War 2, there were several Roma who
was murdered as they did not have means to fight due to the condition of slavery. The author has
quoted that, “for climbing out of that abyss, they required to be educated so that they could get
into good jobs, settle in good houses, but, their education level remained segregated and inferior”
(p. 1000). This has been quoted because he wants to tell the readers about the benefits of
education that the people can get and the way in which education can help them in coming out of
their miserable conditions. But, the inferior and segregated education did not let them come out
of their miseries. This is a descriptive paper, where the author has described the conditions of
Romans due to the slavery and lack of education. Though no direct conclusion has been made by
the author, but it is evident from the paper that the compatibility between slavery and education
is very poor. Apart from compatibility, it has been observed here that slavery and education are
dependent on each other. The people who are slaves find it difficult to get educated and the
people who are lacking education, get it difficult to fight their condition of slavery.

Week 4 Annotations 3
Annotation 4:
Author’s name and publication detail-
Mahmood, H., 2013. Slavery’s Effects on Education: Parallelism in the United States and Benin.
Annotation detail-
In this article, the writer has described the concept of slavery as the ownership of one man by the
other, the tearing of the families apart from each other, dehumanizing of the people, and crushing
of the will of many people. He has mentioned in the article that slavery has devastating effects all
over the world. The author of this article has quoted that, ‘one of the ways in which slavery has
affected the lives of people is in the form of their inability to receive any form of education’ (p.
20). By quoting this, he wanted to show the incompatibility between the two. Hence, it is evident
that there is no compatibility between education and slavery. The author has targeted the country
United States and African countries like Benin. The lethal grip of slavery made the people starve
from education. The author has recommended that all the countries should make the access to
education as their human right. This will help the people in getting protection from the repression
of slavery. In the end, the author has suggested that to eradicate the lingering racism in the
society can happen if the education is improved on a grand scale in all the countries, especially
the US and the African countries.

Week 4 Annotations 4
Annotation 5:
Author’s name and publication detail-
McMillan, S.T., n.d. Slavery, Education and Upward Mobility.
Annotation detail-
In this paper, the author has described the compatibility between slavery and education from the
personal experiences. The condition of the education of the Africans during the period of their
slavery has been discussed here. When the Blacks suffered from slavery, their education was
based on three principles: the education of the ideals of the Bible and Christianity, the support of
education by the Quakers and the way to get free with the help of education. The author has
described the slavery as a profession in which the Blacks were employed. The author has quoted
that, ‘they were driven and ordered by their masters who had no interest in knowing about their
skills that can make them more valuable and useful for other things.' This quotation implies that
nobody was interested in educating the Blacks. Hence, education was not ‘made’ for them.
Slowly the level of education began to rise among the Blacks, and they started getting the formal
education from the Church of England. The slaves were invited to the churches for learning
about how to read and write. This improved their condition a bit. But, getting educated was a
continuous struggle for them. This shows that the slaves had more difficulty in getting the
benefits of education than the other people and they found it incompatible to get the education
due to their condition of slavery.