Lynching party - Slavery and segregation in the US

Hey,

today we first did a quick recap of what we had said last time about the lynching party picture and we moved on expressing your personal feelings about it. Here is what we said:

There’s a stark contrast between the situation nowadays and the situation in the past when segregation was a law in the US.

Then we continued the lesson with the study of a new picture (a cartoon this time).

Here is what we said about it:

The document is a cartoon in black and white. It’s divided into two parts:

- At the top, it depicts a black man who is liberated from his chains. It symbolizes the end of slavery (1863).
- At the bottom, it shows an execution, more precisely a lynching party / necktie party.
A black man is being hanged by a member of the “KKK” (Ku Klux Klan). 

The cartoonist is cynical. The catch phrase reads:
“In 1863, the chains were taken from the negroes, and they were given ropes instead.”
The blacks were freed from their chains / shackles / cuffs but they were executed.
They still had to suffer from ordeals / hardships.

Grammar - Translation: la structure passive

The chains were taken from Negroes...
Be + p. passé
-> On a enlevé les chaînes aux nègres...


... They were given ropes instead
Be + p. passé
-> ... On leur a donné des cordes à la place

Struct. passive: procédé de traduction = penser à la traduction par le "on..."

HW: find more information about the historical period of segregation in the US.

- Civil War

- Jim Crow Laws

Files: download a copy of your text here.

More information about lynching parties in the US here

More information about yesterday's picture:

Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were two African-American men who were lynched on August 7, 1930 in Marion, Indiana. They had been arrested the night before, charged with robbing and murdering a white factory worker and raping his girlfriend. A large crowd broke into the jail with sledgehammers, beat the two men, and hanged them. When Abram Smith tried to free himself from the noose as his body hauled up by the rope, he was lowered and then his arms broken to prevent him from trying to free himself again. Police officers in the crowd cooperated in the lynching. A third person, 16 year old James Cameron, narrowly escaped lynching thanks to an unidentified participant who announced that he had nothing to do with the rape or murder. A studio photographer, Lawrence Beitler, took a photograph of the dead bodies hanging from a tree surrounded by a large crowd; thousands of copies of the photograph were sold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching