Some of his examples of this oppression were: A black man's home could have been feasibly taken by a white man at any time, and no political office was held by a black man at the time -not even the most menial. ... Maybe seen as idealistic and over-optimistic during his time, we can see now that David Walker was a man who truly held real vision for his future. ...
In Equiano's narrative, he is taken from his African home and thrown into a Western world completely foreign to him. ... Rowlandson essentially lost everything by an Indian attack on her town in Lancaster, Massachusetts; where she is then held prisoner and spends eleven weeks with the Wampanoag Indians as they travel to safety. ... Both Equiano and Rowlandson were captured for the financial gain of the captors: Equiano was sold as a slave for financial gain by his captors and owners while the Native Americans held Rowlandson for ransom to be able to obtain much-need food and supplies (Row...
Exploration, fisheries, mining and plantations quickly fueled the success of white entrepreneurial colonists formerly held back by British law. ... The outcome was future generations of broken homes, lost heritage and tradition as well as large numbers of unemployed and poor resulting in mass depression, drug abuse, alcoholism and suicide. ...
"His oratory made as great an impression in Great Britain as it had at home"3. ... Douglass held many prestigious titles in government and business, his social status helped break the barrier for other blacks to enter into the government and gain similar positions. ... Douglas was present at the first feminist convention held in Seneca Falls in 1848. ...
As the eighteenth century went on, it became more and more difficult, however, "to support a family on farming alone," and many had to resort to working in factories or shops as well as owning a small farm to earn enough to afford the family's basic needs.8 It was a well known fact that "relationships within native American families, clans, and tribes were far more supportive than were the frequently adversarial activities of landed families and nation-states in Europe."9 The native Americans of the North, also known as the Amerindians, held women much higher on the social ladder than d...
Yet the Guarani understand that the mission is their home and orders to the Church that they will fight to endure. ... Corresponding to O'Brien's article, he mentioned that when the rebellion of the Guarani occurred, the Jesuits were held responsible, not the Guarani, as quoted by one Spanish official: "Madrid finally realizes the situation here: we have no rebellious Indians- only disloyal Jesuits" (Reiter, 1995, p.203). ...
Whereas in white culture the male was usually the dominant figure in the household, in this instance the Mammy held definite control. She made her film debut around 1914 with a comedy titled Coon Town Suffragettes, which "dealt with a group of bossy mammy washerwomen who organize a militant movement to keep their good-for-nothing husbands at home But the militancy of the washerwoman served as a primer for the mammy roles Hattie McDaniel was to perfect in the 1930's" (Bogle 9). ...
There was now a new swing vote and now politicians had to be cautious of their stance on civil liberties because this group of voters held sway in electing candidates or passing legislation. ... According to PBS, The Civil War and Reconstruction, "By 1860, New York was home to over one million residents. ...
It has been commentated by many that the system leads to the main body of available wealth and power in the world to be held by an elite minority. ... It is estimated that between 25 and 30 million people, were taken from their homes and sold into a life of slavery. ... In scenes mirrored across Europe over this period in history the majority of the wealth generated from the slave trade was held by a capital owning elite in France, one family that prevailed in this industry was the Montaudoinsm's, a trading family that alone were responsible for the sending of 357 ships to cultivate slav...
Britain's attitude toward African expansion doesn't really change in the last two decades of the 19th century from its long held overall view of keeping Africa on a shoestring. ... Egyptian mismanagement of the economy and military and a continually more strained relationship with France who had held considerable sway since the Napoleonic era in Egypt created an opportunity for England to become more important in Egyptian affairs which the English desired because of the importance of the Suez Canal as an eastern trade route (Porter, p. 92-93). ...
So, where Washington tells us a straightforward Horatio-Alger-like story, DuBois becomes more psychoanalytical and chooses to investigate at more length (and with more artistic and personal freedom in his writing) what it means to be black, what it means to be white, what it means to be free, et al, rather than adopting one stance very early on and hammering it home over and over, as Washington does. ... (p. 51, DuBois) Contrast this with Washington's statement, quoted earlier, that a disadvantaged black man is, in his view, at more of an advantage, as he is held to a lower standard a...
The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...
