African-Americans, though legal slavery has been abolished for over 100 years, still have not completely achieved the respect and status of the dominant group in the United States. African-Americans had to endure such harsh treatment, but how can any criteria be established by which to grant reparations. ... Though I personally have never been to Africa, I guess because of my comfort in the environment I was raised in, I"d rather be right here in America. In this paper, I will discuss my views on the reparations for African Americans. ... One might argue that just general monetary grants...

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The point of view expressed here is that of the western European and European American settlers which enslaved Africans. Slave trade dehumanizes Africans because it focuses on the legal institution created by law in America, which allowed white American settlers to actually own Africans. ... It is estimated that more than forty million Africans were brought to America as slaves. ... Many Africans had died while being forced to travel very long distances by foot to get to the coast of West Africa in order to be transported to America. ... To this point, the African Slave Trade can be seen p...

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Leading to America's high demand for slavery. ... " Africans society struggled with poverty and starvation, and the solution was going to America and work. ... A source is Europe's production of slaves because,"it became more profitable-and considerably safer and easier-to ship to the Americas African slaves often entrapped by other Africans than to create colonies in Africa itself. ... "When sold in America, the same motive ought to prevail with their masters to use them well, that they may live the longer, and do them more service".20 The treatment towards Afric...

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Europe's Interest in Africa Before looking at the nature of racial thinking, the question needs to be asked: Why was Europe interested in Africa, in the first place? ... Whereas, India had social issues such as famine and Latin America did not have the land capacity for the colonial powers to invest. ... It can be seen that the main Holy Grail was to change the identity of Africans and by slowly assimilating Africans into European culture; a common example to illustrate this is the changing of African names to Christian ones. ... As Jomo Kenyatta illustrates: "When Europeans came t...

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Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more accurate.2 Syncretism occurred with the combining of African tradition and Christian principles to create an African-American spirituality specific to its people. ... This conglomeration of ideals to form an authentic African-American spirituality with Christian and African overtones has been descri...

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On November 7th, 1775, Lord Dunmore made his fated proclamation; this utterance changed the course of the American Revolution for the African-American. ... Had the rhetoric of American liberty accounted for the African-American? ... The logical solution to the British problem was to recruit African-American slaves. ... The British were mindful of the hypocrisy and injustice that manifested itself in African-American bondage. ... The salvation for the African-American was that he had gained his freedom. ...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was not solely a European business but a booming business and eventual way of life for Africans as well, with Africans often capturing and selling more of their own people than the Europeans did. ... The Europeans had a need that only African betrayal of its natives could satisfy. ... Between the year 1650 and 1900, it is estimated that over 10.24 million enslaved Africans arrived in the Americas. ... The slave trades from the Bight of Biafra steadily deteriorated in the nineteenth century, mainly due to English patrols and a decrease in demand for slaves from ...

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"Nigger and Nigga is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history, at the same time, words that remind African Americans of tragic American experiences," said by Randall Kennedy in his book title, "nigger." ... The term Nigga derived from the word Nigger, which is commonly used in the African-American communities as a term of endearment. Nonetheless, no matter how the term is spelled or used it still embodies hundreds of years of physical dehumanizing and psychological torment against African-Americans. ... Individuals, mainly African-Americans must consciously stop usin...

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Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 by the Dutch to aid in the production of valuable resources such as tobacco, sugar and cotton (Slavery in America, 2015). ... As the first colonists were more fragile and less agile than the Africans, they forced the Africans to work for seven years to produce sustainable resources for the settlers and to make profits for England (Slavery in America). ... There were numerous reasons why slavery was introduced to America; however, the introduction of slavery in 1619...

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But what exactly would have made such a young African American man aspire to be as white as possible? ... While he could never change the fact that he was indeed African American, what he wanted basically was what all the other African Americans who trudged the land like him desired and that was a sense of belonging and respect in their person. ... Very often there is a lack of curiosity about the lives and feelings of the African Americans and their past. ... People need to learn to understand that these African Americans do react and feel just like any other person. ... The last three decade...

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However, it was not just Americans who came into outside contact, the entire region of west central Africa did as well. Thus, in addition to easing and intensifying relations between various parts of the Old World, the European navigations opened up connections between two new world; the American continent and the western part of central Africa , and apparently led the bringing of indigenous Africans to America as slaves. A combination of internal disputes in and inter-tribal rivalry among African ethnic groups, unsuitable demographic and physical attributes of Native Americans to labor, and e...

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Would you agree that African culture survived more strongly in the Caribbean colonies than in North America? ... African "promiscuity" was seen as proof that family life did not exist in Africa as Europeans knew it. ... RELIGION: Obeah viewed by whites" as a superstition was a form of slave religion a powerful facet of African culture transplanted to America. ... Arriving in America from an assortment of different societies with varying religious beliefs slaves from West and Central Africa shared common characteristics. ... Like America the Caribbean h...

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Before Europeans journeyed to North America and brought African slaves with them, Africans and Native Americans actually had a lot in common. ... The very first Cherokee to own an African American slave was Nancy Ward. ... The tribe interacted with enslaved Africans and African Americans in a multitude of ways. ... Some of the tribes also began buying African American slaves during the Revolutionary War. ... Meigs, Sr. counted 583 African American slaves held by Cherokee Indians (Davis). ...

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They had to survive the "middle passage" and legions of cruelties and atrocities committed against them before they even faced the hardships of America. ... Enslaved African Americans developed a sense of racial identity. ... Yet through, storytelling, religion and music African Americans managed to preserve their culture. ... Spirituals - Were a genre of religious folk song founded in American black and white musical traditions. ... During the decades following the American Revolution, however, Christianity was increasingly central to the slaves" cultura...

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With the decline of the Amerindian population, labor from Africa formed the basis of the exploitation of the gold and agricultural resources of the export sectors of the Americas, with sugar plantations absorbing well over two thirds of slaves carried across the Atlantic by the major European and Euro-American powers. ... African capacity to resist Europeans ensured that sugar plantations were established in the Americas rather than in Africa. But if Africans, aided by tropical pathogens, were able to resist the potential invaders, some Africans were prepared to sell slaves to Europeans for us...

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The years following 1783, welcomed an America free of British rule and taxation - an isolated America with few enemies and vast natural resources. The Treaty of Paris entitled America to large new land masses as well as rivers and fresh water lakes. ... The next 50 years following the end of the war saw a myriad of American sentiment towards Native Indians. ... Without question, the wealth of Southern plantations, and the Northern states, were directly associated with the exploitation of African slave labor. ... By the end of 1783, an estimated 5000 African soldiers and sailors had fought alon...

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In the early 1700s, slavery had become an entrenched economic and social institution in the English colonies due to the growing need for labor and the increased availability of slaves in America. ... When less and less people were coming from England to the American colonies, the need for labor in order to cultivate a large yield of crops grew. To fill this demand, slaves were brought from the Indies (who were previously brought over from West Africa) to work under the authority of the free English men in the colonies. ... This was due to the fact that in 1698, the Royal African Company, tha...

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Although Africans sold many slaves, Africa did not make as large of a profit. The slave sold, was only paid for once in Africa. ... As a result racism was magnified against any outsiders, especially those from Africa. ... However, the news coverage for Ebola did not become important in the West until an American came back and was diagnosed with the disease. ... However, even then she makes the statement that Ducan, the Dallas patient, was a vilified by the "West versus the rest" mentality because he was depicted as a foreigner who knowingly came to the country to seek treatment in Am...

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The damages African Americans have sustained from White America because of slavery have been agonizing and inhumane. Therefore I am in favor of reparations for African Americans. ... African Americans have no native language or any African customs to connect them to Africa. ... Americans should realize the magnitude of slavery consequences on African Americans as a whole. ... Well, America promised African Americans 40 acres and a mule. ...

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When Americans traveled to Africa to buy its people they did so because African's had strong bodies that will provide the labor plantation owners needed to sustain the American economy. ... Africans were seen as sole commodities. ... The case encouraged African Americans to fight for their individual rights and not only to undermine the institution of slavery but to gain their individual freedom and equality as well. ... When I think about today's society and how African Americans are treated in the justice system I think about how huge of an impact the slave trade had. ... Some law...

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The mining of silver in Colonial Spanish America and gold mining in Colonial Portuguese America dominated the international commerce and economic markets of the world for many centuries. ... The gold mining in Mexico began in 1490s during early exploration of America. ... In colonial Portuguese, importing African slaves was more profitable for the miners because of the close proximity to Africa and also the value of gold extracted was higher than silver. ... This brought influx of African slaves into the Brazil. ... By the end of century, the province had over 150,000 African slaves. ...

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With the arriving of foreign immigrants to North America from across the Atlantic Ocean, there also came diseases that would soon devastate the Native American population. ... The southern colonies no longer had to worry about the back breaking work needed to be done during harvest time anymore due to the bringing of African slaves to Northern America. ... African slaves were bought at a much cheaper price than that of an indentured servant and seemed to be treated just as well. ... Working alongside the Native American, Irish, and English servants, slaves eventually drove out the need for the...

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African slaves became the preferred labor source by the European settlers in America since it was inexpensive and plentiful labor in comparison to indentured servants. ... It was driven by demand by the growing capitalism of America and Europe that needed the cheapest labor possible, resulting in the kidnappings of many Africans. ... There would be three parts to the journey: first, manufactured goods are sent to Africa; second, Africans are being transported to America; and third, the exportation of goods. The second part of the passage where Africans are being sent to America was often call...

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The American establishment of slavery disturbed the values that the enslaved peoples possessed in Africa pre-slavery. For example, childbirth in Africa was a rite of passage for women whereas on American plantations, slave child-birth was a profit venture which increased labour force. ...

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During the early years of colonization and exploration in North America and Africa, many New World "collided" and brought to each other many new things, both good and bad. ... During the European exploration of Africa, similar events occurred. Europeans brought the crops of maize, manioc, and sweet potatoes, which they had received, from the Native Americans, to Africa. These crops fed the great increase of population that was occurring in Africa at the time. ... The Portuguese set up trading posts along the shored of Africa, trading gold and slaves. ...

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