The Black slaves of colonial America brought their own culture from Africa to the new land. ... Native African music consisted mainly of wind and string melodies punctuated by hand clapping, xylophones, and drum beats. ... Incidentally, there was an outpouring of African-American art after emancipation. ... Some scientific discoveries, however, are duly attributed to famous African-Americans. ... It may be that Africans had scientific methods native to Africa that they brought to the New World, but these were overlooked by supremacist slave-owners and gradually disappeared. ...

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Their pursuit of gold and silver led them to colonize Central and South America as well as the west and east coasts of North America using slaves from Africa as laborers. ... The arrival of Europeans on the American soil brought diseases never before encountered by the native people. ... The manner chosen to accomplish this was to either massacre the native peoples who were left after illness or expel them from their lands. Additionally, many native peoples were enslaved and sold or forced to work their former lands. ... Today America is the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth and is ...

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Tom Quick was a strong, agile, cunny white man who lived among Native Americans. ... He learned the native ways with his Dutch family. ... Colonies of Virginia, Maryland and Carolina claimed some rights and privileges as English men and woman, while they denied those rights and privileges to Native Americans and African slaves. ...

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The Middle Passage referred to the second leg of the triangular trade, in which Africans were sent to the Americas to work as slaves. This is all because the Native Americans began to die out due to European disease. ... If a slave were to die en route to the Americas, he would toss them over the side of the ship. ...

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Spanish conquistadors set out hoping to trade goods for riches, but quickly enslaved the Native American people to make them search for gold and silver. Millions of Native Americans died either from disease, malnutrition, or Spanish torment. ... In 1501 the government in Madrid authorized the introduction of Africans as a substitution for the decline in Native American population. ... Mining silver Peru, Africans worked alongside with Native Americans. ... The Portuguese's early dominant position gave them an advantage in the slave trade, because the profit of Native American labor cr...

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Why America Allows slavery in the 21st century? ... Even though the colonizers worked in some ways along with the Native Americans, they also intimidated them with their weapons and all because of their ignorance. ... Other US corporations don't even need to bring them to America. They go to poor countries in Central and South America looking for people who will set for lower wages than Americans. ... It is not only Americas fault. ...

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We are all Americans. Just plain Americans. ... Let's not forget about the "Native Americans". ... "Kansas City Native American Leaders defeated the Washington Native Americans 23 - 21 on a Last Second Field Goal." ... I realize, as do most Americans, that when Christopher Columbus discovered America he thought he had found India. ...

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To be politically correct though, Christopher Columbus brought death and destruction with him to the Americas. He stole , killed, and tortured the natives. ... He ordered the natives to proclaim him governor of the lands. ... Many of the natives never encountered sickness before, and didn't have the immunities. ... Columbus tried to use the natives as slaves but they were too frail. ...

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They are usually crosses between heavy horses or native ponies and thoroughbreds. ... North America has Quarter, Saddle, Morgan, Pinto, and Shetland horses. South America has Criollo, Haiti, Crioulo, Campolino, and Morochuco horses. ...

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In Australia, the British sent its criminals and convicted to this island, where they were to survive with natives. ... Soon the British began to push the natives into reservations. Violence broke out sometimes, but the British would always win and push the natives even more inland. ... Because the French governed Southern Asia, the United States of America was put into the Korean and Vietnam War. ... The Americans were sent in to control the Communist outbreak, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. ...

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As an American, when it comes to Africa, one is on the outside looking in, waiting to be informed. ... He eventually gains the help of a haughty, unkempt rogue hunter from America. ... The problem exists with the long portrayed dynamic in all its forms between the European and the native African. ... Rarely is the same effort made to establish not only an understanding, but also a loyalty to the native people that populate the story. ... The last we see of the natives is a trainload moving survivors on to another labor destination. ...

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(Wright 1) On July 4th, 1776, our nation, the United States of America, was founded on the belief of personal freedom. ... Famous author Richard Wright has endorsed the fight for equal rights and opportunities among African Americans. In Richard Wright's Native Son, Bigger Thomas, the main character, attempts to attain personal freedom in a racist prohibiting society. Richard Wright's "Native Son" demonstrates how the racist white society oppresses personal freedom and perpetuates evil. ... In Native Son, Bigger Thomas seems to be composed of a mass of disruptive emotions rath...

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These words, spoken by Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam film Apocalypse Now, describe the disgust Kurtz has at American and Western involvement in Indochina. ... Looking back at Africa adventure, Marlow cannot comprehend how the natives had become their enemies. ... Marlow's physical description of the natives he encounters and the surrounding land clearly represent disgust and disapproval for the African imperialistic movement. ... The European's ivory and other possessions and beliefs are the most important, while the well-being of others, especially the natives, are not worthy...

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When I came back to America, I was in a state of shock for a while. ... Shortly after Columbus discovered America, in the early 1500s, Spain invaded what is now South America and attacked the Incas, Mayas and Aztecs who had civilized and developed cultures. ... These parts of South America gave them access to a lot of gold and silver. ... They went in, saw that the natives were talented and forced them to produce for Europe's benefit. ... Today, there are small civilizations of these tribes in South America and North America, but they live in extreme poverty. ...

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A system was generated in which goods and people, including slaves were exchanged between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the Colonies in North America called the Triangular Trade. ... Colonist used Indians and indentured servants to do hard labor for them, The Native Americans were known to escape easily and the prices kept rising for Indentured servants due to these crisis they turned to Africans for cheap labor. ... As slaves were transported to America they were unsuspected of what was to happen to them. ... The Triangular Trade was an attempt to fix economical problem...

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The native dance is a folk dance. ... It was modified to a slower, less exotic dance known as the rumba before Americans caught on to the fad. ... Emil Coleman was one of the earliest bandleaders to organize Latin American orchestras. ... Though this was before the craze of rumba he did exceptionally well in broadening Americans" knowledge of the music and dance. ... "Rumba is the spirit and soul of Latin American music and dance," said by Arthur Greenberg; a historian on Latin dances. ...

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This is when the two tribes compete against each other for a reward, such as food items, work tools, special get a ways, new car's, massages, visit's with family members, and even people who are native to the area, to help them cook and teach them how to live of the land better. ... The rumor is that the next Survivor location will be in the Amazon Basin in South America, near the Amazon River. ...

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The cultural universals in Swaziland drastically differ from those of America. ... The native language in Swaziland is Saswati, but most citizens can also speak English because it is taught to them in school. ... My experience made me realize how spoiled we are in America and how much we take for granted. ...

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The first quatrain draws upon her new self as an American. ... As an African American woman slave, Wheatley had to read only what was thoughtfully handed down to her by white Americans. ... Wheatley's skillfully chose to write in a level that was at her audience's caliber; "and it must be borne in mind that she was neither reading, nor writing, nor speaking to her audience in her native language," (Kafka 46). ... Phillis Wheatley used double meanings to speak what was otherwise unspeakable from her position as an African American woman slave in Revolutionary America. ... She parallel...

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After the disintegration of the ancien regime in Western Europe and the advent of democracy citizens of nations such as Belgium had more influence in state affairs. The power of government in Belgium was considered more important than the power of the monarchy. It was because of this tha...

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In this paper I will explain how historians can use oral traditions like Sundiata, African storytelling, and Native American oral traditions, in writing of history and historical reconstruction. ... Whether it is in an African society of Native American society, oral traditions and storytelling is a great way to get the facts in detail of different cultures and civilizations. ...

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These are the same reasons that American teens do a lot of things. Body piercing "was first practiced in Africa and Asia, and was used by the Roman athletes and slaves, Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans." ... It seems that Americans take things that other cultures do for a reason and do it just to do it. ...

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James Hendy, a native of the ghost town of Monrovia, Liberia narrates what his routine is on daily basis and how death is on his doorstep every day. ... If the CDC (Center for Disease Control) doesn't take this virus as serious as it is, it will reach American soil in a heartbeat. ...

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(Alexie, 82) Alexie relates a Native American awards banquet in his book, One Stick Song, " speaker after speaker extolled the virtues of all the highly successful Indian men .brave, intelligent, loving, and respectful leaders .warriors .Everyone clapped in agreement. ...

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In our day and age, when the word "nigger" is used in reference to an African person, most people are shocked and offended. In fact, I feel strange simply typing the word. However, one hundred years ago, it was as common as the word "and". When reading The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad the ...

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