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Summary Of The Promised Land The Great Black Migration And How It Changed America
Nils Klavers
Ms. Sjabel
September 27, 2015

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When a culture does express their traditions and heritage it gets overseen as a privileged idea but that wasn't the case for the African Americans. Due to the their dehumanization as slaves they were unable to express their traditions and heritage. Because of that, it led them on a path through history to start farther behind than the rest of society. The important role that heritage played in the lives of African Americans. The question arises of the fairness of whether or not the slaves had equal opportunity to show their heritage. Although there were many unjust laws that slaves had to follow, one of the detrimental blows to their spirit would have to be that it was
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Around the 1920s America was approaching the Great Depression era, coinciding with “social equality”. The Great Depression caused close to 50% of the population to become unemployed. The steady decline to this was devastating for Uless Carter’s family as Nicholas describes a simple action such as paying the land owner, “Industrious renters they might be, but the planter still kept the books, and if at the end of the year the family owed him money, there was nothing they could do about it.” A situation such as this should not arise if one were to approach it with a mind of “social equality”. The Carter family was treated poorly and not equal, after 3 years of trying to farm at the correct pace, they move to another plantation. Relocating and belittling aren't actions that should be practiced through society. This is only one of the many examples of unjust behavior towards the Carter family. I perceive that the United States as a whole society was entirely out of equilibrium regarding social equality during this era. People tend to overlook what happened exactly to the African American society during this era, but Nicholas lays out a reliable source through Carter’s family’s

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