Abolition Of Slavery In America During The 1700s

BLACK EQUALITY FIGHTERS IN AMERICA SINCE 1700s

Name: Malcolm Edelin
Date: 12/2/14
Course + Period: A3 WH
Word Count: 4011

This story starts when Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue and ended up in America. Early American history would mostly talk about adjusting to their new land but not far after that the natives that were already there were caught and forced to work under harsh conditions with very little or no pay. This was the first act of slavery in America. After a while a treaty was passed and the natives could not be used as slaves anymore. Now they went off to find replacement slave. They started bringing new slaves over from Africa to the Americas. Africans and generations of that wave and other waves
There were many people far and wide, white or black born free or into slavery. People who told large masses of people to try to spread awareness about slavery or about black equality (depending on their time) were called Abolitionists. Being an abolitionist was a way you can share you thoughts on why slavery should be abolished. Abolitionists lives were a roller coaster dealing with many obstacles and roadblocks. This means that abolitionists had to be really tough mentally. Although being an abolitionist talked about something that they were passionate about the world around them did not believe in the Abolishment of slavery. Abolitionists were often threatened and in some cases killed because people did not like them showing people the off side of slavery. A famous abolitionist is Frederick Douglass who was a slave but the mother of the house he lived in taught him how to read and write before he ran away. Because he was a slave, his stories on how harsh and grueling blacks were treated in that unfair life was better understood and came out as more emotional. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman are alike in some ways but a difference is Harriet Tubman ,who was a runaway slave herself, kept coming back to free many other slaves using the underground railroad while Frederick Douglass inspired
This could arguably be the main reason why blacks and whites are treated nearly the same today. Just like abolitionist Civil-rights leaders fought for black equality but abolitionist technically means people who want to abolish slavery but they are the same. Because there was no more slavery that did not mean that everything was nice and jolly overnight. That just meant no more slaves, but what happened to the ex-slaves of the past people could care less. A new term of black belittling came into play called discrimination where whites no longer wanted anything to do with blacks or “colored” as better known in that time period. I inference that I made was that the word colored was reference like white people were blank and blacked people were filled in or colored. That is when segregation started to kick in. segregation was awful. Whites and colored had to use two different bathrooms, two different water fountains, two different schools, two different restaurants, two different churches and the list goes on and on. This drove America into two. The labels for each split was indeed white and black. The most popular place where you would see colored and a white people together would be on the bus. Even the the bus was separated Colors sat in the back while white people sat in the front and during a day where a lot of white people decided to ride the bus then that line of