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Title of the project: “Learning from the past, understanding the present,
building the future together”
E.mail: lmarquez@edu.xunta.es
Subtopics covered:
• The knowledge transmitted by slaves.
• The role of women during the years of slavery.
• The impact of slavery in the African territories.
• The places of memory in Cuba, Gambia and Spain.
• The role played by the Spanish Crown.
• Testimonies of African descent.
• The traces of slavery in modern societies: positive and negative.
• Modern forms of slavery: trafficking of women, children and migrant passage.
The project aims to bring the realities of the transatlantic slave trade to the high
school students, creating an active space of collaboration among schools
located in different geographical areas which will allow complete the knowledge
of TST from different perspectives: active and passive players, benefits and
detriments,…
The research will be carried out in international and multidisciplinary teams.
The project promotes a set of values shared by the UNESCO Associated
Schools: defending human rights, equality, multiculturalism, international
cooperation, mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and dialogue between
people and cultures, and between past and present.
Main objectives:
Advanced Research
The teams presented the results about different topics: triangular trade,
transport conditions, the life of the slaves, the struggle for emancipation,
main figures in the history of slavery, “black codes”
Legal (policy) documents against slavery were studied and we spread the
resolution on the International Year of African descent.
We advanced in the knowledge about the role placed by the Spanish Crown
in the path of the slaves black seats, the House of Seville, the theoretical
debates to justify the enslavement of Africans.
We were fortunate to receive a gift (from the Triana family of Sagua la
Grande-Cuba) three jewels literature on the “ingenios” in Cuba, so we could
learn about the slave system in them and the role of women as workers and
as breeding slaves. This allowed us to advance research on “women and
girls” in the TST.
Progress in the analysis of modern forms of slavery and most especially in
“trafficking in women and girls for sexual exploitation, both globally, in
Europe as in Spain: Operation Carioca, the brothel scandal in Catalonia, the
mafias in Spain, … The finding will be shared also with the SB “Sá de
Bandeira” of Santarém (Portugal).
We made an “exhibition” on Trafficking, another on the role of women in it.
We opened the blog: http://tstcubagambiaspain2011.blogspot.com
Outstanding activities
• African Festival during the national workshop about TSt in the IPVCE
“Che Guevara”.
Outstanding activities
Partnership:
IES “Luis Seoane” (Pontevedra-Spain)
IPVCE “Che Guevara” (Santa Clara-Cuba)
Nusrat Senior Secondary School (Gambia)
S.B. “Sá de Bandeira” (Santarém-Portugal)