...says how there was things that fitted right for the Africans, that didn’t with the white people. The main ones are the diseases, the knowledge the Africans had, and their population growth, In Which made it lead to the Stono Rebellion. Why was the African people chosen to become slaves? There were plenty of other people they could have picked to become their slaves. But there are some certain principles, for the reason for Africans to become the white’s slaves. Native Americans were able to get for cheap in...
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...Maria Huerta Bruce Franklin HIST:2023 12 July 2015 Slavery was something that started when African Americans were brought into America as slaves. They were brought into America as if they were animals because they were chained up and were thrown in water if they died on the ship that took them to America. Slave trade left many people with good profits, as well as whites who bought slaves because they would put slaves to work on the fields from real early in the morning till whites said its enough. Whites did not care they would also put women to work in the fields, as well as men. During these hardship moments African Americans tried staying positive by singing and dancing to songs they knew. They also met in a place to talk to other slaves...
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...like to be a slave and even more interesting, he talks about what it was like to hear that President Lincoln had freed the slaves. His book covers his life from slavery to his founding of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. I could not put the book down. It is a must read for every African American. When Destiny and Demetrius come to stay with me for Easter break, they will be required to read it while they are here. They need to know the history of our people and this book will give them some insight about how African Americans ended up in this country and what they had to endure. Unlike other ethnic groups, African Americans are the only ones who did not come to North America of their own free will. There was no migration, emigration, immigration. We were brought here in chains and enslaved for many years. We were not seen as human, only property. We had absolutely no rights and no way to return to Africa. I would imagine that many of the slaves tried to hold on to some of their African traditions but I am sure that was hard to do. According to what I have read, slaves were forbidden to carry on the traditions they had in Africa. They were even given American names in an effort to make them feel disconnected from their homeland. Because the slave trade continued for decades, the number of Africans grew in this country (slaves were not considered Americans so the description African American did not apply then.) At one time, there were over a million African slaves so we slowly...
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...Spanish / Latin America is a great and wonderful area that has been impacted and influenced by different people. An important group that helped contribute to the Spanish America were African slaves. These people brought literature, religion, culture, food, dancing and even family traditions to this wonderful country. They also helped to influence many famous dances and the food we eat today. It is amazing how African traditions and cultures are still alive and today used by people worldwide. In this article, I will talk about the wonderful influences and contributions of African Americans to make Latin America what it is today. It is clear that Latin America would not be what it is today without the contributions of Africans. Literature is heavily influenced by African American and can be seen in my famous writtings.Relatos Africanamericanos is a great book that gives extensive information about the contributions of Africans. The Boy King was forced to go to Brazil, but helped freedmen and creates unity and respect among other Africans. Assistant and also worked at the same veneration of Our Sonora del Rosario. (93) cases in Cuba many blacks were forced to become communist to even publish their books and had to spend a lot to get publicity. These stories written by African Americans represent many cultures tradition. They also talk about an important issue in the world, racism. One of my favorite stories is 'The African Granny' this story exposes how racism played a role...
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...467) 6. coerced labor systems (p.475) 7. plantation cash crop (p.470) 8. tariffs (p.469) 9. indigenous (p.393) 10. encomiendas (p. 439) 11. serfs (p.529) 12. mestizo (pp. 442 – 45) Historical Thinking Skills: Periodization, Causation, Contextualization Timeline Exercise: Annotate the timeline with two facts about the important effects of each event Unit 3: 1450–1750 (Early Modern) 1453 Ottomans captured Constantinople; end of Byzantine 1450s Gutenberg’s Printing Press; Portuguese expand trade in West Africa: Benin, Kongo 1483 Babur conquered northern India, and founded the Mughal Empire 1492 Reconquista completed; Columbus claimed Americas for Spain 1498 Vasco da Gama attacked Calicut 1517 Martin Luther posted 95 theses...
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...humiliating. In particular, there is one which has been historically long lasting; the Transatlantic African slave trade. This long and grueling migration paved the way for new races and culture. African Americans thrive all over the world but unfortunately descendants from this race did not come to the Americas on their own free will. A world altering voyage and conquest took shape when Christopher Columbus traveled and discovered the Americas in 1492 (1). Historically true, the America’s took shape but not without risk, sacrifice, or discrimination of a divine civilization. Columbus was on venture seeking route to Asia, in turn; found an untouched land devoured by Native Americans (2). Being distracted new ideas and opportunities, he reset is path. The mark of the Columbian Exchange happened; bringing the eventual commerce of food, disease, culture, power and new races (3). All of the changes were not as promising or good. The transatlantic slave trade brought new life but also brought darker times. Columbus didn’t develop this concept, he actually adapted to it. Although, slavery in the America’s was a forced and free transition, the continent of Africa provided the part of the migrating idea: African slavery and slave trading existed long before European disclosure (4). Since the concept was adapted from one of the countries who defined slavery long before the 19th century, slaves adhered to slavers or masters; this was also contributed from Africa. Men, women and children...
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...June 19, 2013 Writing Assignment 1 U.S History I During the Colonial Periods of the 17th and 18th century many people came to America as indentured servants. There were many reasons for these people to choose to come to America, but the most prominent is that each was seeking a better life for him or herself. The personal accounts in the readings gives us different views as to the way these indentured servants were treated as well as to the reasons that one would leave his or her native land to become an indentured servant. These personal accounts also help us to understand why the African slavery force took over and replaced the European indentured servants. Many people came as an indentured servant thinking this was a way to a better life in America. Many of these immigrants financed their migration by signing a contract that obligated them to a certain amount of time or “fixed term”. After completion of their time they were to receive their freedom and enjoy all the privileges of America. Unfortunately this was usually not the case. Mittelberger stated that those why have no formal contracts “were auctioned off to the highest bidder upon arrival”. He later wrote a book explaining the dangers of migrating to the new world. These personal accounts give us a grim view of the quality of life for the indentured servant. Mittlelberger gave us the best description of the troubles of these people as soon as they boarded the ship. Many became sick and died on...
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...million kidnapped Africans were forced into the Transatlantic slave trade and shipped to the Americas, only a little over 10 million made it. The Transatlantic slave trade was a small segment of the popular global slave trade network and was responsible for the deaths of over two point two million future slaves. This mass kidnapping of oblivious Africans occurred across the Atlantic from the early sixteenth to nineteenth century and was the second part of the “Triangular Trade”. The Triangular Trade or Triangle Trade was a trading system between Europe, Africa, and the North America in which commodities such as arms, slaves, sugar, and coffee were transported between the three nations (Lewis). The...
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...involves the intolerance that mankind has for one another. Whether it is an disagreement on religion, a power struggle for land or the development of society, if there is one thing humans are consistent in is that we do not play nice. However, for people to judge each other on a superficial and meaningless factor such as color is truly bewildering, considering all the many things that makes us different. Because of this type of judgmental mentality, superiority complexes were soon followed, putting specific groups at the top of the food chain. Sadly, those of African descendance would bare the burden of being slaves, in every meaning of the words, to a vast majority of the world due the ignorance of the human race. The movie, The Last Supper, by Tomas Gutierrez Alea depicts the interaction and relationships of the denizens of a sugar plantation in Cuba during the eighteen hundreds. All from the Count to the overseer and slaves had ways of interacting with one another, which was mostly decided on their race and social status. The movie deals with various topics that defined that era in time and there are many reoccurring themes in the movie that can be seen in other periods of time and places. In this paper, many aspects of black culture will be discussed and how they relate compare and contrast to that of whites in the particular time frame in which the movie takes place, as well as discussing modern life implications that certain customs or believes back then have on our culture...
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...Society: Through the View of Many People African-Americans, Whites, Asians, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and etc…They are all classified as ethnicities, that are judged every day in some shape or form. From day one to now I’ve learned more through the class of “Black World Studies” taught by Professor Coates. Coates gave me the intelligent insight on how Africans-Americans were able to succeed through the tough times of learning even when they could die from learning how to read. It was a sacrifice the slaves had to do that the time. When I read more articles and watched more movies, it showed determination, courage, heart, and attitude. When reading, it switched to a period of slavery to a period of the Civil War. After that I came to an author named Jared Diamond that gave his view on the world of slavery. In the article “How Africa Became Black” by Jared Diamond he argues that diversity resulted from the geography of Africa. Africa is home to five major human groups, blacks, whites, African Pygmies, Khoisan, and Asians. Thirty percent of the world’s language is in Africa. But as the years goes on were losing about 2 per week. Soon as the world gets older there wouldn’t be any languages in Africa. As race continues to grow in Africa there will be different types of languages being made and the previous groups (ethnic groups of language) wouldn’t exist anymore. As said in paragraph 8 of “How Africa Became Black” races are stereotyping, from Black to White, to putting the Zulu...
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...process of being abolished in Europe and in the Northern states of America. Even though parts of the world were willing to free slaves, the Southern states found ways to defend slavery. In Paul Finkelman’s book Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South, Finkelman provides the writings of many white leaders from the South who believed that slavery was essential to America’s society. The white leaders who spoke about proslavery included a broad range of defenses to justify themselves because they wanted Americans to believe that slavery had a lasting impact economically, religiously, legally, and racially. One of the defenders in Finkelman’s book was Thomas R.R. Cobb. He justified slavery by arguing the effects of abolition in the United States. Cobb said, “The emancipated negroes do not enjoy full and equal civil and political rights in any State in the union, except the State of Vermont” (Finkelman, 79). He was convinced that those who became free of slavery did not live a better life. He believed that any African American slave who is free is not capable of living successfully and “His moral condition compares unfavorably with that of the slave of the South” (Finkleman, 79). This argument states that African Americans who are enslaved are in better hands with the slave owners and therefore they should remain as slaves. Cobb’s defense was justifiable because he believed that keeping African American’s enslaved was helping them be “healthy and longlived”...
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...However, I have never heard that “Blacks are beautiful.” Since I came back from Canada, I have thought that Blacks are so versatile at musics, and sports. Also they are so beautiful with a great body figure. When I said this to my Korean friends, their reaction was one, “You are strange.” However, I cannot judge, and criticise them. Why? Because I used to think as same as my friends. Koreans seem like they are not racists at all. However, I personally think that Koreans are one of the biggest racists. Honestly, not only I used to be, but also there are still many people who have a tendency to think that White people are intelligent, and beautiful but Blacks are not. I do not even know the reason why I used to have that stereotype. In Korea, there are many foreigners teaching English. Almost all of them are Caucasians. Because many people think that Blacks are dangerous, and not educated. Sort of the reasons could be based on some riots, and crimes by African Americans. The most important thing we have to realise in...
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...entertainment, but it has also been utilized to spread stereotypes and hegemonic ideals reinforcing the racial hierarchy that has continued to survive even after the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century. According to Tilicia L. Mayo, Indiana University communications graduate, images in the media contain the ability to teach many different lessons. Mayo states, “Contemporary films and television shows deliver images that communicate ideologies such as class, standing and position in society” (vi). After the abolition of slavery, White America searched for means of social control through the media since they lacked the power of legal control. Black women, being of the lowest racial and gender classes in America, have repeatedly been stereotyped and victimized through the use of degrading images in contemporary media. The origins of these images can be found in the racist ideologies of the African slave woman created by White Euro-American slave owners. The images of black women in American media have directly affected how black women and other people in society define black womanhood. This influence directly shows how people utilize fictitious and stereotypical images from the media in trying to understand the stereotyped group and their behavior. C. Delores Tucker, Black feminist and politician, is an example of a black woman who fought against the images portrayed in the media because she saw the negative effects such images had on the black community and the American society...
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...The Atlantic Slave Trade was in the mid fifth tenth century that Europeans began trading and capturing slaves from the African continent the three main points is African were forced into slavery, Native American population declined and Alfonzo letter to stop slave trade. My thesis is that these main points were the reason why Europe corrupted that point of time. Native American population depopulated due to disease and war and could not provide enough work and the proof is in Document 1 which says that they declined because Europeans had brought disease and the Spaniards did not want to do the work themselves which to the Europeans access to another cheap labor which was the African Slave Trade and then document 6 it tells us that America is being depopulated which was where the Natives were, and in document 7 King Alfonzo letter says mentioned merchants are taking every day our natives which started the depopulation....
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...gradual but dramatic change the way people viewed slaves. Many factors aided the deterioration of treatment towards slaves from a people to property mindset. Whether it was the beginning of the African Slave Trade, the economic driven cash crops, British laws passed to control slaves or the development of British Low Country each factor belittled the human aspect of a slave. To understand how one gets labeled as “cattle” we must understand where it came from. We first look at the beginning treatment of slaves to gather a comparison on how it differed from Atlantic Chattel Slavery. Slaves in the early east Africa were generally war captives of conquering dynasties. Islamic religion helped to maintain the humanity of these war captives. They were accepted as a member of the family (nation) but the lowest ranking one. Islamic members who owned slaves had obligations to educate and convert them to Islam. They also made it illegal to sell children from their parent which in turn was a cultural device to bring outside people into the society. After two generations of slavery these families were accepted into the society. Slaves during this time would also live to the same standards as their owners. This means a slave owned by a wealthy person would have a better lifestyle (clothes, food, etc.) than a poorer one. Slavery was still not a positive experience but when we compare to the lifestyle of Caribbean/America slaves one can see a huge difference. A major step towards...
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