Links
Historic Contexts
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Learn more about what archeology has uncovered in Jeno-Jenne about the past of the Mande people.
Visit the Rice University Mali-Interactive Project. Please copy and paste the URL below to view the site.
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~anth/arch/mali-interactive
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Learn more about the early history of African civilizations that were the origins of enslaved African peoples who helped explore and settle the New World.
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Visit the National Museum of African Art educational program: Mali
Empire and Djenne Figures
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Visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline Africa 1400 A.D. –
1600 A.D.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hm/08/af/hm08af.htm
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Visit the National Museum of African Art educational program: Mali
Empire and Djenne Figures
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Learn more about Timbuktu
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Visit the Library of Congress exhibit: Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert
Libraries of Timbuktu
www.loc.gov/wiseguide/ aug03/timbuktu.
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Visit the Library of Congress exhibit: Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert
Libraries of Timbuktu
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View a 16th century artist’s rendition of the “Great Chain of Being“
- http://www.stanford.edu/class/engl174b/chain.html
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Another view is found in the Library of Congress exhibition “Beginnings”,
an exploration of how world cultures have dealt with the creation of the
universe and explained the heavens and the earth.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/images/wt0157.jpg
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Read the Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
Pennsylvania State Archives
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Learn more about how 17th century enslaved and free Africans used the courts to gain justice
- Africans in Court and Virginia's Slave Codes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p270.html