Britain was the center of the industrial revolution for several reasons:
1) Its naval power and success in wars allowed it to build an extensive colonial empire and trade network.
2) Cotton was an industry well-suited for industrialization, attracting investment, and Britain's colonies provided cheap raw cotton through slave labor.
3) Britain had an economic structure of colonialism that enabled it to take advantage of industries like cotton for profit.
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Based on the frameworks of John Dewey’s Experiential Learning, Malcolm Knowles and Lindeman and Distributive Intelligence this session will have a free downloadable course and discussion on how to motivate students with personally relevant material on a historical content. Learning does not happen on a page, it happens in the heart.
The course was originally developed for an Apple high School customer in order to weave historical content with the student’s experience with life. The course explores colonialism transformation in modern globalization through the use of media and collaborative class experience. It is a digital storytelling course.
The curriculum leverages the 31 UN human rights as a digital storytelling program. Youthforhumanrights.org. Perhaps now with the state of global human rights infractions making students feel helpless it is as timely as ever. The session will cover some information on the UN SDG talk.
Richard developed under a UNESCO grant a digital storytelling portal “I am Africa. This is my story..” This is curriculum and methods are excellent material for Flat Classroom projects. The Youth for Human Rights program of 31 emotional promo video can be used by teams of students in PBL and other collaborative media formats.
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Why was Britain the center of industrialization?
● Naval power and war
● An industry suited to industrializing = cotton
● Economic structure that allowed for it to take
advantage of that industry = colonialism
5. Britain: Slavery and Cotton
● Cotton industry - there was money to be made
and it was rapidly expanding, so it attracted
investment
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● Machinery was cheap, easy to construct, and
promised quick returns
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● Raw materials - extracted from colonies
through slave labor, thus expanding supply;
accident of coal supply and steam power
6. Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
How has US history tended to
depict Jefferson’s relationship to
slavery?
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8. Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
How did that version of the “paradox” of
Jefferson and slavery come to be?
Why do you think this happened?
9. Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
Wiencek’s article suggests several innovations
introduced by Jefferson that impacted the
development of slavery and capitalism.
10. Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
Wiencek’s article suggests several innovations
introduced by Jefferson that impacted the
development of slavery and capitalism.
● Industrialization and diversification/division
of slave labor
● Recognition of the reproduction of enslaved
populations as generating value
● Monetization - use of slaves as collateral
12. George Mason and Slavery
● Owned at least 300
slaves
● Did not free any
slaves in his will
● Co-authored the
Second Amendment
to protect the rights of
southern militias to
hunt escaped slaves
14. Ta-Nehesi Coates: Reparations
How does this essay by Coates connect to the
other readings for this week?
What do you think about the argument he is
making about reparations?
How does the issue of reparations connect to
the issues of debt we touched on last week in
our conversation?