Land was not owned in many parts of Africa during the pre-colonial period. The male chief of the patrilineage held and distributed the land. They distributed the land as necessary to male members. The woman’s access to land depended on the female’s obligations or duties within the gendered division of labor.

Agriculture was the job of many African women. The men believed in having a lot of wives, all of the wives worked together and farmed his land for him or whatever duties he required for that day.

Africa is considered to be a multi-lingual country. There are eleven officially recognized languages. Many others are often spoken but not widespread. English is generally understood across the country. It is one of the eleven common spoken languages but it only ranks 5th out of the eleven spoken languages.

During the 15th and the 19th century major changes had happened to the African and North American continents. Europeans ventured to Afr

Since slaves were free on the eastern side of the country the ruling class realized that they needed some way to control black communities as a whole. They achieved this plan by getting individuals in black communities to act as mediators. These individuals were called “Black Governors”. The office of Black Governor originated in Massachusetts, and then appeared in Connecticut and Rhode Island. The main job of a Black Governor was to help the whites gain control over the African Americans.

After the American Revolution the movement to abolish slavery had risen in the north. Slave owners in the south had got scared and reasserted the rights of African Americans. The reassertion of their rights was done in, 1787 at the Constitutional Convention. Southerners forced several compromises that laid the foundation for a “New Nation” a nation which espoused liberty, but practiced bondage.

ica where they began a trans-Atlantic slave trade. Many Africans were taken as free people and then forced into slavery in South America, the Caribbean and North America. This slave trade had brought about a different type of racism. It was the color of your skin that determined whether a person would be a free citizen or be enslaved for life. The slave trade devastated Africans life and heritage. Some slaves were sold and traded more than once, often in a slave market. Families were torn apart, children hysterically cried while they said their good-byes. Some infants were taken from their parents at birth with no knowledge of who they are.

The majority of the African slaves worked on tobacco plantations and large farms. Working in a tobacco plantation was one of the hardest things to do. It was an eleven month crop, which had four different stages to it and required constant care. There were some advantages to working on a farm or plantation verses working in a household or an urban setting. Generally slaves in plantations lived in complete family units, their work dictated by

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