African & African-American Feminism, The Black Woman's Search for her Identity and Role in Society Although women have been involved to some degree in all kinds of organizations in Africa and America from church groups to liberation movements, in many ways it was the trade union movements that became the spawning ground for women organizers and in which women first rose to positions of importance in Africa. ... While several black national federations were formed and dissolved, the one that endured was the Non-European Trade Union Federation, formed in 1928. ... They sought free ...

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All slaves knew work associated with their culture and not the American culture, left them with nothing, so when freed in the late 1800's they had no other trade skills. ... During the slave trade beginning in the 15th century, African people were forcefully torn from the continent of Africa and force to lose their culture, in turn to accept what ever the whites offered, for instance the names Negro, coon, jigaboo, pickaninny, nigger, and nigga. The Europeans or (whites) who controlled the slave trade realized that he had to strip the Africans or (black people) of all culture such as orig...

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The Northerners had not freed the slaves for moral issues; the white majority did not have anything but its own economic prosperity on its mind. ... The Radical Republican's in Congress, who were responsible for freeing the blacks, were also responsible for letting their voices become silenced. ... With unfair trade practices and a limited amount of capital being exchanged, the blacks in the South were not free to do as they pleased; once again they were caught in a system that profited the white Southerners. ... With the Northern "victory" in the Civil War, African Americans were forev...

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As we look at the writing, Appeal by David Walker (1785 - 1830), we see the emotional steam engine firing within this black, free abolitionist, and view slavery from the side of the educated oppressed. ... In the same year, international trade in slavery was banned, though largely ignored by slave smugglers. ...

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The industry of the slave trade has been around for many thousands of years; even the Ancient Egyptians had slaves to help them construct their empire. ... During the Civil War, the Union and Confederacy fought over many issues, but the central conflict was slavery. 350,000 Union soldiers gave their lives trying to free African Americans from slavery. ...

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The case is about a group of Africans that were victims of the illegal slave trade. When they arrived on American soil in 1839 they were technically free people, and that's the technicality that won them their case. ... When I think about today's society and how African Americans are treated in the justice system I think about how huge of an impact the slave trade had. ... They believe African American males from the ghetto are the wrong doers in this country and that is a result of the slave trade because, as mentioned earlier, the mental illness of racism has managed to trickle dow...

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The damages African Americans have sustained from White America because of slavery have been agonizing and inhumane. Therefore I am in favor of reparations for African Americans. The effects of slavery have been an enduring issue within the Black community. Many of us are cognizant of the harm ra...

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African Americans continued losing their ways of life as soon as they were boarding onto the slave trade vessels and brought over to the United States. ... The same Anthology goes on to say that major happenings in the history of African Americans such as the slave trade and the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment are times in which African American people collectively adopted an identity as a path to restoration and healing (Gates and McKay, 1996). ...

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For instance, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman fired the state police superintendent; Carl Williams for saying that while he did not condone racial profiling, minorities were responsible for most of the country's illegal drug trade (Cannon 72). ... Race-dependent policing retards the development of bias-free thinking; indeed, it encourages the opposite (Kennedy). ...

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To be quite blunt, reparations, even if they may be deserved, are not possible under any system or economic departure indeed such an undertaking would only not remedy the situation, but it would sink Africa and her people deeper into the cycle of poverty and oppression that they have so struggled to free themselves. ... It is equally unworkable to decide whether or not they too were victims of the slave trade, the arguments either way would be morally severe for are they responsible for the actions of their ancestors? ...

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