During this video, I became more and more frustrated. I have briefly understood what white privilege was growing up, but I had never heard it in this detail before. I could not believe that this was how this came about. I was shocked to find out that it started only briefly slavery came about. I thought that once the African Americans came here to the…
I must start off by saying that the video was very interesting and eye opening. I have spent a number of years looking at movies and television shows that designed to depict the history and imgae of African-Americans after slavery however, this video allowed me to see a more intimate vision of this time periods.…
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In the second video, the subject I found the most interesting was the Emancipation Proclamation and the role it played in the Civil War. It turned what started out to be a small war into an all out war against slavery. The passion each side made it very interesting and “real”. This…
Slavery existed in all the British American colonies. Africans were brought to America to work, mainly in agriculture. In Virginia, most slaves worked in tobacco fields. Men, women, and children worked from sunup to sundown, with only Sunday to rest. It was hard, backbreaking work.…
Thomas Phillips wanted to be the commander of the Hannibal because of the opportunity to make money. It did not matter of what he believed but in order to survive he had to make a living by doing something. He was ordered to purchase 1300 Negro slaves and disperse them between two ships, The Hannibal and the East-India Merchant. He…
There is no other way in describing stories about slavery, other than coming from a former slave himself. “The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina” is a book on the life of John Andrew Jackson, a former slave who escaped his plantation with plans that he made up as he went on. Jackson talks about the trials and difficulties he, his family, and other slaves went through while being on plantations in South Carolina. Jackson and others have been through it all, they have been whipped, almost whipped to death, they have had family members die, and they’ve also seen others get whipped and beaten to death. Jackson stated, “My earliest memory was of my mistress (woman of authority or control), whom I was very scared of, out of all people, because…
I, amongst other peers of mine, were brought to tears by how the Jews were suffering in the Holocaust. The video, in a nutshell, pointed out, as I said before, the suffering that…
While in this horrible life that slaves lived in many would recorded their encounters on how it was being a slave. In the book The Classic Slave Narratives you read how slaves are brutally beaten occasionally by their master or overseer. In the story of Mary Prince and Frederick Douglas you see all the heart ache that these slaves had to go through. There is similarity in which all slaves stories are the same but different in their own way. When learning about slavery we already know about all the bad things they went through but its all different when you actually hear it from their point of few. Which is really horrifying to learn the truth of what these slaves had to face.…
As I walked through the Blacks in Wax Museum I was both upset and happy by what I saw. Going into the slave ship and seeing the slaves being branded like livestock and shackled one on top of the other really brought to life the struggle that the slaves had to endure. I don’t understand how the white people can think of the slaves as less than human, and at the same time want to rape the women. The Lynching Exhibit opened my eyes to how cruel people can really be. What hit home was the story of pregnant Mary Turner and her husband. They hung both she and her husband and proceeded to cut off his genitalia. When they returned and found that Mary’s baby was not dead they cut it out of her stomach. They then took two cats that were feeding on the…
In the Colonial America slavery rapidly increased over time. Starting in the 1600s slavery was legal in the first thirteen colonies, but it was more common in the south. Many africans were brought over and began to be enslaved.…
Life as a slave was very difficult. As many as 4.5 million slaves were working in Southern plantations in the early to mid-1800’s. There were two types of slaves; field slaves and house slaves. People think that being a house slave was easier but this proves that theory wrong. Slaves had terrible environments, were separated from family and friends, and were sometimes beaten to death. Whites knew that slavery was wrong and immoral. Though, it still continued.…
How could one unified country suddenly become so split apart? Every day I wonder what life I would lead if I was not forced to work in the heat of the South. Although factory work in the North would still be rigorous like the farming in the South, African Americans there are not treated as things, but people. In the North, I would not be frightened at the thought of being caught and tortured or killed if I tried to move to another place. I do not know if there will ever be a time when I would be able to be free because the North and South depend on each other for goods. If slavery is abolished, would the plantation owners in the South work to give the North crops? The Southern crops are needed to make the final products that are produced in…
1. What percentage of the population did slaves comprise in New York City by the early 1740s?…
I learned many new things from this video. I learned that many people died in the black’s non-violent revolution for freedom and rights. I also learned that most African Americans were paid an average of only about $700. African Americans were denied education at all white schools, and were only allowed a less than average education at black schools. Under the Supreme Court ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education, a number of African American Honors students integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Every day they had to endure abuse from a huge angry mob that protested integration and wanted segregation. I feel that I would not have been able to put up with all that abuse. Those nine students that integrated Central High had great determination and never gave up hope. I also learned that it was a very long and hard struggle for all blacks during the Civil Rights Movement. The KKK terrorized blacks and killed them. Many African Americans were killed before they won the rights that they deserve. I was very proud of all the African Americans that participated in things like the Montgomery bus boycott because it showed that they weren’t afraid of standing up for themselves. I felt joyful that they always had the courage to stay non-violent, because if they turned to violence, the situation would not have turned out the same way. Now I will do anything that I can to eliminate discrimination of anyone because it is a very serious and destructive…