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    Free African Americans in the Antebellum of America The Antebellum period had a huge impact on the free African American people. The Antebellum period is the time that is pre-Civil War and post-War of 1812. The United States was expanding to a more powerful nation and slavery was the biggest industry in their economy. During this period of time‚ African Americans had to deal with many obstacles/adversities as free blacks in all regions of the United States. The regions known as‚ in the northern

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    African-American Influence on American literature African American literature can be summarized as the writings of authors from African descent. In the United States‚ African descendents have had very different experiences from each others depending on where they lived. In the southern states of the United States‚ Blacks have been really oppressed until the Civil War‚ with the big part being illiterate well into the end of 1800. In the northern states ‚Blacks had a considerable greater freedom

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    African American Woman

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    about race and ethnicity that places African American women at a clear disadvantage.” The earliest forms of these sexual notions and oppressive manners dates back to slavery. America has had a vast craving of exploring the unknown and trying to learn and interpret different cultures. Although the concept of race is constantly changing‚ and currently is viewed as a state which does not have any biological meaning it is constantly a crucial part in African American Woman lives which have perpetrated

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    constituted freedom have been varied. This was especially true for both the Native American Indians and the Africans. Even in times as early as the 1600s‚ the peoples of early America could not pinpoint a solitary basis for their freedoms. With inhabitants ranging from the Native American tribes such as the Catawba and Wampanoag to settlers from Europe and England‚ and eventually African peoples‚ such ideals were different in many ways: while some centered on one’s religion‚ others placed bearing

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    African American Experience After the civil war many African Americans thought things would be different‚ that it would be a new beginning for them. They did gain freedom because many amendments were past so they could gain freedom. Whites didn’t like this though so they passed their own laws to prohibit these amendments and restrict their freedom. The African American experience did not get better after the civil war it actually got worse. The African American experience did not get better

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    Enslaved African Americans resisted slavery in a variety of active and passive ways by breaking tools‚ feigning illness‚ staging slowdowns‚ and committing acts of arson and sabotage. All were forms of resistance and expression of slaves by being distance from their masters. Running away was another form of resistance. (Chapter 9‚ Page 437)" Some enslaved African Americans tried to run away to the free states in the North. A few succeeded. Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass‚ two African American leaders

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    African American Dream

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    idea around the African American community the dream to be wealthy and have the same rights as whites. Coates believe that part of being black means that you can never fully achieve the American dream because America was and is built to this day on the backs of African Americans. If whites were to give the African Americans the same rights and opportunities as whites the dream wouldn’t be a dream anymore‚ and the whites would lose the wealth and power. Coates says “Very few Americans will directly

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    The story of African immigration is unique among immigrant groups‚ just as the African experience in America has been exclusively essential to the course of American life. Unlike other immigrants‚ most Africans came to North America against their will‚ caught up in a cruel system of human exploitation. The treatment we endured in the United States was of a harshness hardly ever surpassed in recent history‚ and their role in U.S. society was contested with a rage that nearly tore the nation apart

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    African American Limitations Even after the Civil War was over African Americans were not treated as citizens. There were so many different types of limitations‚ which went along with their freedom. For instance‚ there were social limitations‚ political limitations and also economic limitations. When Black Codes were crated that was the beginning of all the different limitations. Some of the Black Codes made it illegal for African Americans to bear arms. They also couldn’t travel without getting

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    During pre-colonial African kinship and inheritance‚ it provided the bases of organization of many African American communities. African American men were recognized for the purpose of inheritance. They also inherited their clan names based on their accomplishments‚ as well as other things when one decease. Land was not owned in many parts of Africa during the pre-colonial period. It was yet held and distributed by African American men. Access to the land by women depended on their obligations or

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