Black slaves were not seen as humans but merely as property who served as servants. They could not accumulate property or belongings or authority because they too were property often compared to "chattel". ... With all of the master's promiscuous acts, the mistress would eventually discover that her husband has been sharing himself with property. ... When a master bred with a slave girl, the child became property of the master, therefore adding profit to his pockets because he could later sell him or her. ... He said "you are my child, and when I call you, you should come immediately,...

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• Grade Level: High School

Constitution were passed. ... Also Poll taxes were passed. ... The public schools were funded by property taxes. Since few blacks actually owned property, and that which was owned by blacks was of little value, the schools in black neighborhoods were always of lower quality than those in white neighborhoods. ... Later in 1968 President Johnson got a bill passed that ended discrimination in housing. ...

• Word Count: 1907
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He claimed to be "anti-slavery" in the hope that the expansion of slavery would be stopped, but would also adhere to the Constitution as the people have the right to property and opponents would argue that slaves are property. From 1837, when Lincoln first attacked slavery as bad politics, his thoughts evolved from thinking that slavery would eventually die out by compromising that southern states could have its slaves without expanding, to 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, as it stated Congress had no right to prohibit the expansion of slavery to federal territories, a...

• Word Count: 2007
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Early Monday morning, 21st of March 1960, Africans throughout the nation gathered within their towns at the request of Robert Sobukwe, the PAC leader, to protest against the pass laws. The pass laws demanded that every African carry a passport containing information about their employment, criminal record, residential address and areas they are allowed to be in, to name a few. ... In Sharpeville, the estimated five thousand African protestors marched through the streets towards the police station without their passes, chanting campaign slogans such as "Izwe lethu" (Our land); "Awaphele ampasti...

• Word Count: 1663
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From as early as 1629 in Jamestown, Virginia, codes or laws were being passed that segregated, humiliated and oppressed the black slave in the new world. ... This law was in effect the first law in the new world that consigned slaves as property. ... In 1705, Virginia passed another set of laws that declared that all servants who were not Christians in their native lands would be slaves for life. ... As a reaction to the revolt, apprehensive whites in New York quickly passed new stricter and more oppressive laws. ... New laws were again passed taking all blacks freedoms away. ...

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There was a great amount of property damage done to farms, factories, and railroads. ... Whites saw emancipation as the reason for loss of the nation's largest concentration of private property." (Current, pg.88) Planters went from owning blacks as property, to negotiating a wage in exchange for their labor. ...

• Word Count: 1876
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Two laws have been passed to facilitate integration. ... In 1974, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act was passed to address discrimination of blacks in accessing credit. ... At the same time, improvements could also raise property prices, which would displace blacks who can no longer afford to live in the community (Kennedy & Leonard, 2001; Vigdor, 2002). ...

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This was called sharecropping, which is when most blacks could not afford their own land so they kept part of their crop and gave the rest to the landowner while living on his property (Norton. ... They began to pass local and state laws that particularized certain places "For Whites Only" and others for "Colored." ... But the requirements included: the ability to read and write, which disqualified the many blacks who had little access to education; property ownership, something few blacks were able to obtain; and paying a poll tax, which was too great a responsibility on most Southern blac...

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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a few European nations ruled the Americas. They grew sugar, tobacco, coffee, ginger, cotton and indigo, which were all craved by the Europeans. Imprisoned in these exotic product plantations were about two and a half million black slaves. Fred D"Aguiar's b...

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President Kennedy was never able to mobilize sufficient support to pass a civil rights bill with teeth over the opposition of segregationist southern members of congress. ... Hour after hour, the toll mounted: 27 dead at the week's end, nearly 600 injured, 1700 arrested, and property damage well over $100 million. ...

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They knew the Japanese Americans were being forced to leave so they couldn't get a decent price for any of their property. ... During this time the Jim Crow textbook law passed, it said books for black children could not contain information on voting, instructions on how to vote, matters of government, and civic responsibility. ...

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People from England who migrated to America used many different methods to enslave black people and passed them down through the children. ... It was considered right to take anything that belonged to white folk but it was wrong to steal the property of other slaves. ...

• Word Count: 2041
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• Grade Level: High School

In 1991, the NAACP passed a resolution that stated the Southern Cross was a racist symbol that reminded Blacks about slavery. It also stated the flag was offensive to all Americans and should be removed from all public properties. ...

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Eventually Chopin revealed that Armand was the one that carried the black genes that were passed on to the child, but because Desiree was constrained by the restrictions of her sex, she was blamed for the "unconscious injury she had brought upon Armand's home and his name" (Chopin). ... In conclusion, Kate Chopin's works, for example, "Desiree's Baby" and "Story of an Hour" showed me that during that era women were treated as property. ...

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