The Significance of African Proverbs and Folktales and Their Relationship to the African Culture The African Proverbs have had a great influence on lifestyles of many people, mainly successful African Americans through means of religion and culture. ... The thing that is especially interesting about the use of proverbs in African American writings is its suggestion of a movement from the written language back to the oral. ... As do proverbs, African American folktales have origins rooted in West African literary and cultural forms of expression. When Africans were taken from their homeland a...

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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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African-Americans in America look only towards filling their own pockets instead of giving the money to the people who truly need it, the people of Africa. ... For the African-American community to isolate itself further from America is to embark on a course whose implications are troubling. ... The average African-American makes over three times what the average person of Africa makes and in America, African-Americans have the opportunity for advancement. ... However, how he says this scares away white America and makes them get defensive towards African-Americans in general, although on...

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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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Prince Henry helped unlock the secrets of Africa. ... The ships then traveled to America, where slaves were exchanged for sugar, rum, salt, and other island products. ... Africans learned of the faith through devout Christians who traveled to Africa on a mission to teach their religion. ... Liberia Liberia is a West Africa nation originally founded by freed slaves from the American South between 1820 and 1865. ... Tolbert, was the grandson of freed American slaves. ...

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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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African Americans used music as a form of empowerment and a source of identifying blackness, unity and strength. Many European Americans used music like many African Americans as a source of reconnecting with their lineage and discourse to the United States of America. ... Firstly, African Americans have used music as a marker of identifying their blackness and discourse from their homeland of Africa. ... Music in the African American culture has weighed heavily on the African traditions and Diaspora from Africa to America. ... Therefore, Portia Maultsby in Africanisms in African-American Musi...

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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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Because Africans were both accessible and used to the tropical climate, they became the staple for American slave labor. ... The slaves also worked on sugarcane plantations that had spread from the West African coastal islands to North America (Gomez 2005, 62). Slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas in a complicated process. The triangular trade route, called the transatlantic slave trade, connected the Americas, Europe and Africa. ... The shipment process of slaves from Africa to the Americas was often uncivilized and killed 13% of all captors (Gomez 2005, 73). ...

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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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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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The Middle Passage is the passage of bonded slaves from West Africa to the Americas. ... The Africans who were brought to the Americas also brought with them important elements of their rich cultural backgrounds. The religions that developed in the Americas among the African people are called African Diasporic Religions. ... The Yoruba people made great impact on other African people that were brought to the Americas. ... In the Americas they were faced with common dilemma, of greater extend then intertribal differences that were so important in Africa. ...

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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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African slaves were not necessary, because the Spanish Americans forced tens of thousands of Indians to work for them. ... Once more settlers migrated over to America different forms of slavery started to come around. ... By the eighteenth century the business was regularized; European merchants, American Planters, and African traders were constantly engaged in the complex bargaining over human lives. ... Because slaves could be sold in America for twenty to thirty times the price in Africa, men, women, and children were forced to aboard small vessels and travel to the New World. ... In Americ...

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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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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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WHAT WAS AND IS THE IMPACT OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. ... The African slave trades come to be an important part in the colonial period. ... Because of this European used African Americans like they were part of the land, a property that 5 Was there to produce goods, being it for Europe, or later on for the independent nation. ... When African Americas finally achieve freedom , they have it worse of all , although they are free , they still are giving poor jobs , with no or little pay , worst of all they are still being discriminated against just because of the color of their skin. ....

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Yet the experience of African slaves and the Native American Indians starkly contrasts with that of the European immigrant groups, and describes a second, darker facet to American culture that still exists today. ... The years from 1700-1750 saw a dramatic rise in the African slave population, with more than 250,000 being forcibly transplanted to the American continent. The demographic impact cannot be overstated: southern colonies that were almost completely devoid of Africans in 1680 were 30-40% slaves by 1770. ... While Africans and Indians had different fates (the Africans continued to exi...

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Why America Allows slavery in the 21st century? ... The conquistadors needed labor force in order to achieve their goal of colonizing the New World, so they went to Africa where the Royal African Monopoly controlled a vast majority of the community and forced them into slavery. ... The massive immigration of African slaves to America led to several sociological problems such as the segregation of races in America, and the matriarchal order in Africa. ... They go to poor countries in Central and South America looking for people who will set for lower wages than Americans. ... It is not only ...

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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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Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African American writer of sixteen collections of poetry, four collections of short stories, and four novels (Miller 393). No Negro of finer artistic spirit has been born in America (Bone 131). ... Paul Laurence Dunbar is a well know African American, classical poet of the nineteenth century, who writes poems in standard English or black dialect, seeks to recreate the Negro, and cries out to freedom form slavery to all of the Negroes who read his work. ... It is said that Dunbar played an important role in the evolution of the African - Ameri...

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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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The Gender Construction of Women in Early America Life was difficult in the early colonization of North America by the Europeans. ... The African people were being captured and brought to the Americas for a life of slavery. ... In most of the Native American cultures, women were valued beings. ... As in the Native American culture, in most West African societies it was the women who dominated agriculture. ... The cultures formed were a mix of different kinds of African cultures, and of course the Anglo-American culture. ...

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