In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people either prayed to their own Gods or (especially in north and central Africa) followed the teachings of the Koran.

But in the eyes of most Europeans, all Africans were ignorant, pagan savages who needed to be introduced to Christianity and Western civilisation. When America was discovered in 1492, Europeans soon realised that Africans were more able to work in the hot sun than native Americans and were also easier to identify as slaves than white prisoners because of their skin-colour. Slave-trade quickly became one of the most flourishing businesses. About 7 million Africans survived the „holocaust Atlantic slave-trade". About 50 % of the kidnapped Africans died during the journey.

The first Africans were brought to the USA in 1619. Africans were kidnapped (often by other tribes, in Africa slavery had existed before the white man entered Africa), treated like animals or even worse, and brought to the USA in chains. This „promised l

Some topics in this essay:
King Malcolm, Lincoln Memorial, Christianity Western, Nation Islam, Blacks Blacks, Malcolm Malcolm, South African-Americans, Letter Birmingham, City's Harlem, Detroit Red, civil rights, nation islam, black people, luther king, black nationalism, martin luther king, martin luther, elijah muhammad, pride black, direct action, social discrimination, 1964 civil rights, luther king jr, ku klux klan, discrimination de facto,