Paul Finkelman: At the founding of the American nation in 1775-76, slavery is legal everywhere in what becomes the United States. Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Here are excerpts from our interviews with Christy Clark-Pujara of the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin Paul Finkelman, editor of the Encyclopedia of African American History and Bethany Jay, co-editor of the book Understanding and Teaching American Slavery. The second: Slavery and the slave trade were central to the growth of those colonial economies. The first is that Europeans practiced slavery long before they invaded the Americas and established the thirteen colonies. Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Chronologically, these concepts begin before there was a United States. Hasan Kwame Jeffries: This episode is a special look back at important ideas from our first season, and how they correspond to the Ten Key Concepts in Teaching Tolerance’s framework for helping educators talk about and teach the history of American slavery. And this is Teaching Hard History – a podcast from Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Hasan Kwame Jeffries: To fully understand the historic times that we are living in, it is important to comprehend the central role of slavery in our nation’s past.

Because at the end of the day, that’s what our kids are going to be. Jordan Lanfair: We aren’t making students, we’re making citizens. Price Thomas: I think that understanding history, and understanding why two Black dudes can’t sit in Starbucks, but a white girl can carry an AR-15 on a college campus-why is that the way it is?Ĭhristy Clark-Pujara: You don’t know who you are as an American unless you know the history of slavery. What were they doing back in West Africa or Central Africa or wherever they came from? Tamara Spears: I feel like primary sources are what the kids can really build their facts on. Paul Finkelman: The irony of American history is that we’re one of the few countries in the world that begin with the stated purpose: we hold these truths to be self-evident that we’re all created equal.īethany Jay: I begin my American History courses saying there were Africans in Virginia before there were Pilgrims in Massachusetts. SPLC, Teaching the Hard History of American SlaveryĬhristy Clark-Pujara: It was the business of slavery that allowed New England to become an economic powerhouse without ever producing a single staple or cash crop.Bethany Jay and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly (editors), Understanding and Teaching American Slavery.Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, Classroom Videos (key concepts).Teaching Hard History, A Framework for Teaching American Slavery.Rimstock manufactures wheels at its facility in West Bromwich in the West Midlands and operates foreign sales and marketing subsidiaries in Germany and the USA. Rimstock designs and manufactures lightweight, forged alloy wheels for some automotive OEMs. Rimstock is a private company incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom in 1985, with its head office located in West Bromwich, UK. The completion of the Strategic Review is expected to put the Company in an ideal position to effect the Transaction, allowing it to transition from the cannabis industry to the emerging electric vehicle vertical with the goal of maximizing shareholder value. The Transaction is to be completed concurrently with the Company’s strategic review announced on June 21, 2022. Upon closing of the Transaction, it is expected that shareholders holding 64.11% of Rimstock will hold 72% of the issued and outstanding shares of the Resulting Issuer and current shareholders of Captor Capital will hold 28% of the issued and outstanding Resulting Issuer Shares (on a non-diluted basis). The resulting issuer that will exist upon completion of the Transaction will change its business from cannabis to the electric and luxury vehicle industry. It is currently contemplated that the Transaction will be effected by way of a share exchange of common shares of the Company for common shares of Rimstock. announces that it has entered into a binding letter of intent dated July 15, 2022, with UK-based Rimstock Holdings Limited in respect of a proposed business combination pursuant to which the Company will acquire 64.11% of Rimstock in exchange for share capital in the Company and cash considerations, which will result in the reverse takeover of Captor Capital by Rimstock.

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