When you think of African-Americans today what's the first thing that comes to mind? ... There are a multitude of underlying themes in the lives of African Americans throughout history. ... Ultimately, African Americans resisted the oppressive conditions of the United States as discussed throughout the documents of Timbuktu to Katrina: Readings in African-American History. ... African Americans were determined to serve the country and fight for rights. ... To sum up my findings, Africans and African Americans have displayed various forms of resistance throughout history. ...

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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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Ever since the beginning of slavery, African Americans would sing praises and encouragement while working in the fields. ... Pretty nearly 11 to 16 million slaves were brought to the Americas originating from a few piece of Africa. ... Most passed dark codes to utmost the privilege of African Americans. ... This shows how African Americans had no freedom. ... African Americans and Mexicans were categorized with canines. ...

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But the fact is that because of slave trade being very popular in America, African culture impacted the American music greatly then, and now! ... "It was created in the days of slavery in America, when a black person was still an African in America, not an African-American. ... (African American music). ... As the popularity of African influenced music in the African American community erupted, the up-beat rhythm and unique tune interested the younger white community. ... Blues and jazz are still strongly rooted to the past as the new sound of "old school", "R&B", and "Rap" are not only tie...

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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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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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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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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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Most of the slaves who were in America came from Africa. ... David Horowitz agrees that "the reparations claim is a separatist idea that sets African Americans against the nation that gave them freedom" (2001). ... Sowell asks, "Does anyone seriously suggest that blacks in America today would be better off if they were in Africa? ... Blacks in America today are better off in America than they would be if they were in Africa. When compared to the people in the African countries from which the slaves were taken, black people in America today earn on average a per capita income 20-50 times hi...

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Due to this and the belief system of the Africans brought into Colonial Louisiana, there was no socio-racial hierarchy and that brought the interdependence between all the races to a high point and allowed the Africans to form the basis of the Creole Culture. ... The French treated the Louisiana colony as a military post to prevent England colonies from gaining too much control of the Americas. ... The difference in this chapter is the fact that she looks to Africa, or more specifically, Senegambia. ... She then later discusses how the conditions that were evident during the early days of colo...

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Captivity narratives of Americans relate the experiences of whites enslaved by Native Americans and Africans enslaved by Americans. Two widely read captivity narratives are The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano and are A Narrative of Captivity by Mary Rowlandson, in which relate the experiences of an eleven-year-old African male captured for the American slave market and of an adult white woman captured by Native Americans. ... In Equiano's narrative, he is taken from his African home and thrown into a Western world completely foreign to him. ... Howe...

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Overtime African American lifestyle changed drastically, and African American men and women created new lives for themselves. ... Therefore, the effects of the American Revolutionary War on African Americans depended on where they lived. ... However, during the war, the British had also promised many African-Americans their freedom from the colonists if they fought for the British and when the British lost, they attempted to honor their agreement by helping African-Americans travel to England or Africa at their own request. ... Thus, many African-Americans had their chances of freedom in vario...

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Huck's father, Pap, is a deliberate racist who, in contrast to his son, imagines African-Americans are beneath him. ... Post-era Mark Twain; hatred continued to surround African-Americans, yet a promising future seemed achievable. African Americans after the war enjoyed many civil liberties that their predecessors could only dream of. ... The case was specifically held as another battle of racism towards African-Americans. ... This was a period of creativity and prosperity for African-Americans. ...

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There was a point in time, where oppression not only mocked the lives of both slave and free African Americans, but flogged the lives of women, and uneducated male laborers, trying to make an honest living. When exploring oppression the African American community was faced with slavery, racism, and no sense of dignity. ... Black society was looked down upon as a disgrace to American culture. ... Unfortunately, this was every day life, and well believed customs in mid nineteenth century America. Blacks were not the only class that suffered by no means, women in America faced harsh oppressiv...

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REPARATIONS Many people today do not believe that they should have to pay for something they were not even involved in long ago, but the fact is African-Americans were promised by the U.S. ... Before I began put this idea in your head: many Africans were taken from the only place they knew. ... That's what the government did to African-American's. ... (adversity.net) Of course, the situation may be different in some ways but, why should the Japanese be paid and African-Americans not? ... African Americans continue to suffer even through slavery has ended. ...

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The American Revolution or Revolutionary war was a war fought for the liberation of the American colonies from British Rule. ... However, these ideals were not applied to African Americans because they were not treated as citizens of the colonies due to the fact that they were slaves who did not have freedom, this also meant that they were not considered equals to the white individuals in the colonies, and they were still under the power of the slave owners. ... This was only one incident where the slaves or African Americans were not considered equals in the colonies. ... The African America...

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While some may argue that slavery no longer affects African-Americans, we still see small amounts of animosity even today. ... Although the average American had little power or say regarding the issue, many were brainwashed into believing African-Americans were inferior or unequal. ... Jefferson, the genius of politics, could see no way for African-Americans to live in society as free people. ... In her article about African-American stereotypes, Monnica Williams says "Given that African Americans are a statistical minority in the US, the overwhelming majority of drug abusers will therefo...

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Marx compares South Africa, Brazil and The United States. ... The Dutch South Africans, or African had a different relationship with there slaves. ... Unlike South Africa where there was a strong sense of tribal unity or in Brazil where slaves were imported relatively frequently giving them a sense of family and a bond with each other, American slaves were second or third generation slaves who new nothing of there culture or native lands and who where stripped from there family at a early age. ... African slaves were brought in to fill there space. ... In the case of South Africa The Dutch ...

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Many slaves were encouraged by members of the previous generation to explore various aspects of their African ancestry, culture, and education. ... Learning of their ancestry and adapting their culture to conform to their restricted life as a slave resulted in a revolutionized culture for African American slaves, which is clearly evident through Thomas Webber's work. ... Through countless generations, African culture was passed down and survived its journey to the present day, despite all odds. Even while they were enslaved, African Americans aspired to literacy. ... As a result of its d...

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"African slaves were placed on ships and began the long journey to the Americas.   ... The trip from Africa to the Americas took at least six weeks.   ... "The Supreme Court decided the citizenship question for African Americans, slave and free, in Scott v. ... Congress were determined that African Americans be accorded all of the rights of citizenship-. 6 During Reconstruction period, the situation was still precarious and poor whites kept enjoying an additional status by keeping African Americans down. "From 1889 to 1899, on the average, one person was lynched every other day, and two o...

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Different books will talk in different voices, and books that have fallen into the African American genre speak "a distinctively African voice". ... In addition to African American Literature testifying to the intellect of African Americans, Gates also asserts that the genre "at once testified against their captors and bore witness to the urge to be free and literate". ... Douglass, through the entirety of the story, uses references to American Revolutionaries to show the correlation between the plight of African Americans and those issues that the American Revolutionary War was fought for. ...

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His achievements in government had cleared a path for other African Americans to follow. ... Frederick Douglass would encourage many more African Americans to fight for the Union Army, "Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.... ... Nearly two hundred thousand African Americans were estimated to have served the United States Army and Navy by the end of the civil war. ... Not only did these achievements pave the way for other African Americans to follow, but they also weakened the stereotype that African American people are an inferior and sub-human type of being. ... After th...

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