Native Americans, many of whom sided with the British in hopes of stopping colonial expansion onto native land, had large tribal territories relinquished to the newly formed United States after the war. The next 50 years following the end of the war saw a myriad of American sentiment towards Native Indians. U.S. policies of the 1880's and 1890's attempted to force American culture and education on Native Indians in an effort to form a docile relationship. ... While current laws and statues have attempted to correct past injustices of native Indians by returning lost homeland and su...

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This was true for the three minority groups in the late 1800's-women, Native Americans, and emancipated slaves. ... The slaves are similar to the animal because they always had what was needed, and then they had nothing, which brought them great suffering, but they, like the animal, never wanted to return to the cage. ... The whites had confused them, and tricked them into giving them the Native's land. ... Native Americans in the 1800's wanted peace and preservation, but instead they got war. ... As a result of the incorrect stereotypes, Native Americans faced many diffi...

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Slaves were also more convenient to use in comparison to Native Americans and indentured servants, as Native American's died too quickly once in contact with American settlers, and indentured servants were required to give land and basic custodies based on the headright system. ... Shipped in thousands into unknown land, in which language, culture, and religion were significantly different; there was less of a chance for escape from plantations, as they were unfamiliar with the terrain, unlike the Native Americans. ... Some, as Thomas Phillips, commander of the ship Hannibal noted in Sept...

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Not only did the Spanish overwork the natives of the Canary Islands, but they also brought along a silent killer. ... The Spanish first made contacts here with the native TAINOS of the Caribbean in the summer of 1492. ... When Columbus returned to the colony La Naviad, he discovered his men were slain. ... The natives to Hispaniola were not trained in military tactics which made enslaving them quite easy. ... After near decimation of the native population on Haiti, also known as Hispaniola, the Crown replaced the ability to outright enslave the natives with a new doctrine. ...

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This is all because the Native Americans began to die out due to European disease. ... The slaves tried to defend themselves by planning attacks on the white people in order to kill them, and then return back to their tribes. ...

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English settlers began by taking land away from the Native Americans so that they would have the land for agriculture. The Native Americans were not likely "targets" for the settlers to enslave, so indentured servants were brought over from England. ... However, the author says that the Native Americans were viewed to most resemble the English because of the lighter skin and hair color, and because of the religious traditions and hierarchy established in the Native American's way of political and social lives. The English viewed the Native Americans as friendly and necessary for their ...

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Portugal Unlike England was very small in native population and discouraged people from settling there. ... The native population was too weak to do the type of hard labor that the settlers wanted them to do. ... The Dutch Then began to enslave more natives to work these mines. ... The English employed many natives to fight in the war. ... The English did not keep there promises to the native population and instead only saw strength in white unity. ...

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Naturally, after taking in the sight of a beautiful uncharted island and meeting the local natives, his next main focus was to convert, command, and conquer. He took notice of the fact that he and his men were looked upon as heavenly figures and that the natives had virtually no weapons nor fighting techniques, so he knew that they could be "easily commanded or made to work ". ... Columbus initially wanted to convert the Indians through "love ", but seeing the endless gold and riches that could be acquired, he made the acquisition of gold his primary goal for his time spent with the natives. ....

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Olaudah Equiano, a native of the African province Eboe and author of The Interesting Narrative experienced the cruel and inhumane life of a slave. ... He faced slavery on several fronts, in his native Africa, the West Indies, Europe and America. ... He was in constant fear of being sold to "human butchers, who cut and mangled the slaves in a shocking manner on the most trifling occasions, and altogether treat them in every respect like brutes." (105) Beyond these fears, slaves were forced to labor unmercifully for their master's and in return were underfed and ill-treated as ignorant me...

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In return for bringing Spain gold, Columbus was promised 10% of profits, governorship over newfound lands, and the fame that would go with new title: Admiral of the Ocean sea. Also, as the prototypical Western white male, Columbus carried across the Atlantic racist prejudices against the native people. ...

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By setting aside their forced leaving of their native Africa the slaves emerged with new identities with local roots but all based on their strong cultural belief and need for kinship. ... Unfortunately for the Anglican ministers they did not have much success at this time and returned home bemoaning their failure to convert no more than a handful of slaves. ...

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Free Blacks, Whites, Native Americans and former slaves served as conductors by aiding fugitive slaves to their freedom. ... Harriet later returned at least 19 times other during her life to help over 300 slaves escape. ...

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Olaudah Equiano, also known as Gustavas Vassa, was born in Guinea, Africa in 1745. His birth-name was Essaka and he was the son of an Ibo chieftain. Equiano was the youngest son of seven kids, six boys and one girl. As a child he enjoyed spending time with his mother, whom he was very fond of. ...

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When Prospero first comes to the island, he is kind to Caliban, and in return, Caliban shows him the secrets of the island. ... This trend is also seen in the numerous accounts of European settlers voyaging to the New World and capturing the natives to use them as slaves. ... Prospero's argument is that he tries to educate Caliban and to help him, but in return, Caliban tries to take advantage of his daughter. ...

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Introduction The Middle Passage is the crossing of the Ocean from Africa to America of African people, who passed from the state of liberty to the state of slavery, and took place between the XVI and XIX centuries. 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). The Diaspora gives birth to a new human being: the African American, who links together the African and the Ame...

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Jessie asked one of the sailors where was he going and the sailor told him they are going to go on a voyage to Africa, he then asked when will he return home and he said if he is lucky he"ll be back in four months. ... He watched them wondering what they were thinking, being taken away from their tribal homes, put on a ship surrounded by water not knowing where they were headed and if they were ever going to return home. ... A man that spoke Ras's native language came a few days later and told him about going north. ...

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Among other locations to which they fled were maroon societies, Native American groups like the Seminoles, and large southern cities such as Baltimore, New Orleans, and Charleston, South Carolina. ... Pennsylvania that states did not have to aid in the return of runaway slaves. ...

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For Sherman, and the soldiers who didn't return home, there was the matter of Indian troubles in the West to occupy their desire for adventure. If Sherman were simply blood-thirsty during his "March to the Sea", he was a homicidal maniac when dealing with Native Americans. ...

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"When talking about the history of this great country, one can never forget that America was built upon the genocide of the Native Americans and the enslavement of African people and it is criminal to say otherwise" Lee added. ... Following the Civil War most slaves returned to the plantations in which they were formally enslaved to work as hired free-blacks. ...

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Yet the experience of African slaves and the Native American Indians starkly contrasts with that of the European immigrant groups, and describes a second, darker facet to American culture that still exists today. ...

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As early as 1680 the majority of the slave population was native-born. ... They found that the rates of return on a slave were quite high and that holding slaves was quite profitable. The average rate of return of a male or female slave was about the same, around ten percent. ... This was a blow to all the theories that slavery was unprofitable and that slaves had low rates of return. It also showed that the rates of return were higher and not below that of alternative investments. ...

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Although there had been a British and greater European presence in Africa prior to the last two decades of the 19th century it was primarily coastal and revolved around the slave trade. With the abolition of the slave trade within the British Empire in 1803 and a complete abolition of slavery across the empire in 1834 there was little interest in Africa by Britain until the end of the century. This lack of interest in Africa did not include The Cape Colony though, which the British gained at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and which served a key role in outfitting ships on the British trade rou...

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His first "impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia to their own native land," which leads to the idea of colonization for African Americans. ... Striner quibbles how when Lincoln was offered to have the seceded states return but have slavery "spread in all federal territories and future territories below the line of 36 degrees, [as well as prevent] Congress from interfering with the interstate slave trade," he declined the offer. ...

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"The bargain included the exchange of votes on the extension of the slave trade for twenty years in return for support the Deep South for majority vote in the Congress rather than a super majority of two-thirds," this allowed both sides to claim victory without the knowledge of it (Ellis 94). ... There was no Africans or Native Americans," because the image of America was thought of a white, nothing else (Ellis 101). ...

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In chapter one we are taken back to 1492 New England to see the day to day lives of two very prominent and influential Native American tribes. ... In return the servant would give his master four to five years of hard work, while this was happening the servant was given food and shelter. ...

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