Would you agree that African culture survived more strongly in the Caribbean colonies than in North America? ... North American slaves lived together in buildings near to their place of work. ... Links via relations to other family members in other villages created the kinship ties and the same sense of identity similar to slaves in North America. ... However, in both the Caribbean and in North America it would appear that a certain amount of assimilation took place if the slaves were to survive in their new "homeland". ... Like America the Caribbean h...

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"Drawing the Color Line" by Howard Zinn chronicles the beginning of slavery in North America (Gallagher, 2012). The beginning of slavery in North America developed into a regular institution, into the normal labor relation of blacks to whites (Gallagher, 2012). With it developed those special racial feelings - hatred, contempt, pity, or patronization - that accompanied the inferior position of blacks in America for the next three hundred fifty years, that combination of inferior status and derogatory thought we call racism. ... The discipline of hard labor, the breakup of the slave family, th...

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The struggle between state and federal government is a large part of American history. ... The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments aided the North's vision of reconstruction. The amendments provided a series of advantages for the North's ideal Union. ... The amendment's most important provision, was to defined an American citizen as anyone born in the United States or naturalized, thereby automatically making African Americans citizens. ... Slavery had been a part of life in America since the early colonial period and became more acceptable in the South than in the North. ...

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African Americans are an "at-risk" population. ... Systematic oppression of African Americans has become part of the everyday tapestry of the US society. ... Since the early 17th century, discrimination of African Americans has been an immanent part of daily life. ... During the 20th century, many from the African American population were forced to move up north and to the Midwest by blatant discrimination, permissible in the south. ... This will allow the lives of African Americans to be psychologically healthy....

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The Civil War pitted Americans against each other. ... In fact, she says, "cotton productivity, no doubt due to the sharecropping system that replaced slavery, remained central to the American economy for a very long time Cotton was the leading American export from 1803 to 1937." 1. ... Whenever you have two people-or peoples- [the North and South] joined in politics but doing diametrically opposing things, it becomes almost inevitable that at some point tensions and jealousies would break out." 3 Alexander points out that tensions between the two sides of America were inevitable. ... As Ameri...

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Although it wasn't until the 1860's that national unity had been split between North and South, national unity started to fade as the United States was expanding in the early 1800's. ... Document C is starting to explain some of the tension between the North and South with the Nullification Crisis where South Carolina nullified the Tariffs the Government put on the states. ... Southerners' resentment is growing exponentially towards the North and the government to the point in Document K where James Hammond writes about how the Southern states can hold their own without th...

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When Americans didn't agree on things, the outcome was always violent, and the altercation was the Civil War. ... Documents A and B both show the areas of the union and how there was an unequal balance of economical systems in the north and south. In the year 1860, it can be seen that the North had way more railroads than the south, showing the importance of trade in the North rather than the South. ... The North wanted to advance and form a thriving country without the use of slavery, separating themselves from the South. ... Douglass said, in document G, "What, to the American sla...

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Failure to live by the statement, "All men are created equal," and honor the inalienable rights of people following the American Revolution, is not the main precursor that doomed the United States to a Civil War. ... The Federalists in the North, wanted a strong central government and chose to take a loose interpretation of the Constitution. ... Quarrels between the two parties continued, until eventually 11 states made a resolution, and finally disaffiliated from the United States in 1860-1861, and formed the Confederate States of America. ... The North was proceeding to become more...

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The main issue in America politics during the years of the late 1840's to the late 1870's was slavery. ... During this time the North was pushing for full emancipation of slavery through the emancipation proclamation. ... Without the cotton produced by the South the textile mills in the North would eventually fall as well, making a horrible cycle of destruction of the economy all over America. Whether people liked it or not the economy was based on the backs of slavery and America needed them to survive. ... Southerners began to portray groups like American Anti-Slavery Society,...

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The Civil War The American civil War is sometimes called the War Between the States. It the most memeriable war in American history, 3 million fought - 600,000 died. It was the only war fought on American soil by Americans, and for that reason we have always been fascinated with The Civil War. ... But by the 1830s the market revolution had tied Northeastern factories and Northwestern farms into a roughly unified, commercialized North. ... An antislavery Republican Party became dominant in the North and elected Abraham Lincoln president in 1860. ...

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Throughout the years, slavery has played a dominant role within the Cherokee Nation, inevitably affecting thousands of African Americans, American Indians, and Europeans alike. ... Before Europeans journeyed to North America and brought African slaves with them, Africans and Native Americans actually had a lot in common. ... Also, it is widely taught that white Europeans introduced slavery to North America upon their arrival since certain more violent types of slavery were introduced. ... Forms of slavery that existed before Europeans arrived in North America were quite different than the form...

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Territorial Issues Before the onset of the American Civil War, a great debate was raging among the citizens, and politicians of the Untied States. ... Slavery was not only an institution in the Southern states, but it was part of a lifestyle that had been going on since the founding of the United States of America. ... One particularly famous African American who was freed from slavery was Fredrick Douglass. ... "The fugitive slave law plunged Negroes of the North into the bitterest anguish. ... It turned out to be the calm before the storm; which was to become the bloodiest war in w...

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This book was one of the first works of literature that provided the north with which they thought was an accurate look at the institution of slavery. ... Many people did not even realize that the institution of slavery is wrong, because they were raised being taught that that's why African American people were put here on earth. ... If the north would force the south to put an end to all slavery, then the south would be forced to succeed, because they would have to save their economy. ... Uncle Tom's Cabin was an event that lead to the start of he American civil war, because it s...

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The Compromise of 1850 infuriated the South, as it greatly tipped the scales in favor of the North. ... The struggle between the North and the South over Kansas threw the territory into chaos. ... The South paralleled her situation to that of the thirteen colonies prior to the American Revolution. ... The seven states formed their new government, the Confederate States of America before electing Davis as president. ... During the late 1850s, sectional struggles mounted, contributing to the widening schism between the North and the South. ...

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The Compromise of 1850 infuriated the South, as it greatly tipped the scales in favor of the North. ... The struggle between the North and the South over Kansas threw the territory into chaos. ... The South paralleled her situation to that of the thirteen colonies prior to the American Revolution. ... The seven states formed their new government, the Confederate States of America before electing Davis as president. ... During the late 1850s, sectional struggles mounted, contributing to the widening schism between the North and the South. ...

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The Compromise of 1850 infuriated the South, as it greatly tipped the scales in favor of the North. ... The struggle between the North and the South over Kansas threw the territory into chaos. ... The South paralleled her situation to that of the thirteen colonies prior to the American Revolution. ... The seven states formed their new government, the Confederate States of America before electing Davis as president. ... During the late 1850s, sectional struggles mounted, contributing to the widening schism between the North and the South. ...

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Literacy, in its turn, was denied from slaves because it would have given them access to perspectives on their condition and the ability to articulate and spread them among the reading public of the North. ... Jacobs's "knowledge" has to do with "premature knowledge" of sexual harassment because of sexual exploitation of enslaved African-American women, by their white masters. ... "The Cult of True Womanhood" was an organization that dictated the moral codes for women's virtues and proper conduct, and women both in the North and in the South were judged upon its rules. Jacobs sta...

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The interests of the North and South were quite different on the issue of slavery, and this is what divided the two. The North was more industrialized, business and industry played major roles within the north having no need for slaves while in the South was primarily based on agriculture. ... A huge issue between the North and South was the Missouri Compromise. ... All these things together rose tensions for the South and the North. ... The North and the South had many ideas which were different from each other which they wanted to do to improve the nation. ...

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In actuality Northerners did help African Americans achieve freedom but did not "do away with" slavery. Over the decades the country was divided between those who desired an America whose labor was legally free, and the North who believed that only a system based on slave labor could guarantee social order, as in the South. ... Slavery benefited the textile manufacturers in the north and immigrants and other workers. The North has always been known for initiating the end of Slavery. ... The majority on the other hand only objected to it in the North. ...

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This poet was not alone though as Black art suffered greatly them in America and these people tried to fuse as little Black and as much American as possible into their craft in a bid to be given a chance to fit into the Caucasian standard of what was consider American. But what exactly would have made such a young African American man aspire to be as white as possible? ... He uses a lot of rhetoric to show that there is a different definition of the fourth of July to both the African American and the white American when he utilizes phrases like us and them, you and we. ... The last three decad...

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Some of the first settlers in seventeenth century America were British revolutionaries escaping religious prejudices back home. ... The north was against slavery spreading into new states. ... By 1861, seven Southern States had seceded from the Union and created the Confederate States of America. ... Arguably, historians have loosely compared slavery in America to slavery in other countries. ... Slavery has been simplified to a part of our gruesome past that everyone - including African-Americans - wants to forget. ...

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This meant that Lincoln, even before being sworn in as president, was faced with the rebellion of 7 southern states who left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, and later four more who joined as hostilities began between the North and South. ... Up until the war the North and South had operated on very different economic systems. ... They grew and harvested cotton only for it to be shipped to the North, woven into cloth and sold at a profit. The North also imposed taxes on the South, which they felt was unfair. ... More Americans died in the Civil War than in all other wars Am...

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The controversial issue of slavery further divided the North and the South based on their views; the north viewed slavery as a morally wrong practice, and the south viewed slavery as a part of their life style.  ... The North had a cooler climate and rocky terrain, which did not allow for a focus on agriculture; however, the north was able to focus more on trade. ... A major resource that the north had that the south did not was fast flowing rivers. ... Dred Scott, an African American who was born a slave but had lived on free soil for four years, tried to sue his master for not granting him ...

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Black American women were forced to go to America in order to serve as slaves, although, thanks of their African heritage they had constituted an important role in the survival of their race. Similarly, Mary Ann Shadd is an African-American woman who had to emigrate to Canada because of the plight of blacks after the Fugitive Slave Law; becoming a Black-Canadian woman. In Canada, she became a strong opponent of slavery in America, inasmuch as her African-American forefathers who were slaves. ... On one hand, Mary Ann wrote A Plea for Emigration, a pamphlet which praise the virtues of Canada t...

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These reasons were based on population, the south was made up of more people than the north, but the actual physical population was large in the south. This was caused by the way population was calculated; in the south every three slaves were counted as one man, thus a new state in the south with no slaves would not give the south the power they have been seeking to rival the growth in the north. ... Secondly, the compromise excluded slavery from all new states in the Louisiana Purchase north of southern boundary of Missouri. ... The compromise, although deemed fair, was seen as just a way ...

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