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Slavery in the past was a huge deal that changed America to the way it is now, thankfully we do not suffer from this problem these days. However, it took many steps to get to where we are. Many laws were introduced and many were followed and broken. Jim Crow was one of the laws…

Today, when you think of the civil rights movement and how it started you think of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Actually, the civil rights movement started a long time ago and one of those people who helped to start it was Frederick Douglass. He has been called the father of the civil rights movement….

“Slavery is terrible for men, but it is far more terrible for women”(Jacob, 86), Harriet Jacobs mentions this in her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, in which she portrays the hardships of a slave girl that not only expands to her personal experience, but also all enslaved women during that time…

The work that had the biggest impact on me this semester was “Up From Slavery: The Struggle For An Education”, written by Booker T. Washington. This work was written during the Realistic Era. The genre of this work is an autobiography. “Up From Slavery” is so inspiring to me. One reason it is so inspiring…

Since the initial formation of the 13 colonies that led to the greater United States, race has played a consequential if not the most essential role in the acceptance or rejection of a man. Beginning with the slaughter and displacement of those native to the Americas and slowly transitioning to the enslavement of the African…

The history of slavery in the United States is a part that I am sure we would be more than happy with cutting out. It was a time where black people were picked based on physical attributes to work for nothing and to be beaten on top of that. Our history isn’t something that you…

Between the 1700s to the early 1800s, about three million captive African Americans were carried on the British and Anglo-American ships. About 40 percent went through the Middle Passage, a trip across the Atlantic Ocean, to be sold as slaves. Slavery brought America a lot of money and slaves helps boost the economy. The United…

British colonization differs greatly from that of their Europeans rivals: the Spanish, the French, and the Dutch. The differences between Europe colonization and their European rivals include the motivation for colonists to travel to the New World, and the structure of the government in colonies. Despite their many differences, British colonization also resembles their European…

Powerful. Very powerful and very sad. That is how I would describe the movie “12 Years a Slave”. I could not imagine having my freedom taken from me in one day. Solomon Northup was walking through the park and enjoying the day and then he met these two men. They asked Solomon to play the…

“Up from Slavery” is a great autobiography of Booker T. Washington. This is the story of Booker T. Washington in Malden West Virginia, after the civil war. He was born a slave and must work consciously to get an education. He remembered his childhood as a slave in a fight that was much more difficult…