All throughout history there are many things that were left out of history books, but why? ... Money is issue that can dictate what goes in a history book. ... He goes even further to tell us In Alabama the law used to require textbooks to avoid anything racial that would cast a bad reflection on the people of the state. ... Lowen goes on to say that history books are clones of each other; after the historians write the material it is then re-written by individuals in the publishers office who know nothing about history. ... In this article author Shirley Engle explains that many college histo...

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She insists that her son Julian, a quasi-intellectual, educated at "only a third-rate college", hypocritically consumed with disdain for his mother's racial bigotry, escort her to the Y on the recently integrated city bus after the Supreme Court ruling in December of 1956 to desegregate the buses of Montgomery, Alabama (Alabama Department of Archives and History 1). ...

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Between the years 1790 and 1860, almost 835,000 slaves were moved from the states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. ... The last and final revolution in the history of American bondage was a revolution in moral values and sensibility. For one of the first times in history, both religious and nonclerical associations denounced the institution of slavery as both an act of sin against man and God and as a violation of natural rights. During the 1760s, the first movements in history began to denounce slavery. ... With the southe...

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With the help of Quaker friends she successfully sued her former owner for the return of her son Peter, who had been sold illegally to an Alabama planter. ... speech at the Akron Women's Rights Convention in 1850 has gone down in history as one of the most significant expressions of the combined abolitionist and women's rights movement. ... She was a slave all of her early life and her kindness and loving personality eventually led her out of slavery and into one of the most famous women's rights abolitionists in history. ... I believe Sojourner Truth was an inspiration for othe...

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The book's purpose is to show how important African Americans were to the Southern economy, and tries to "correct the perversion of the history of blacks - in order to strike down the view that black Americans were without culture, without achievement, and without development for their first two hundred and fifty years on American soil." ... The first chapter of the book discusses the history of the slave trade in the western hemisphere. ... Farmers moved their whole plantation to the New Southern states like Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. ...

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They were captured from the tribes situated on Africa's West Coast: Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Senegal, etc. and they were shipped in the southern area of North America (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida). ...

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