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. ... The Diaspora gives birth to a new human being: the African American, who links together the African and the American culture. ... For Africans the slave ship is a hell over the water. ... "Their complexions, differing so much from ours, their long hair and the language they spoke, which was different from any I had ever heard, united to confirm me in this belief. ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

European colonialism evolved benefitted from African markets they had created yet contained the African population. ... The East African Campaign was a series of battles and guerilla actions, which stated in German East Africa in WW1 (www.dw.de). ... In WW2 The North African Campaign took place in Northern African deserts, it included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian desserts it was fought between the Allies and Axis powers. ... After independence the main revenue base was, for African countries, continued to be the export of raw materials, which resulted in the underdevelopment of ...

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Before Europeans journeyed to North America and brought African slaves with them, Africans and Native Americans actually had a lot in common. ... In this hemisphere, there were hundreds of Native nations, each with its own spirituality, language, system of government, and land base. ... The very first Cherokee to own an African American slave was Nancy Ward. ... The tribe interacted with enslaved Africans and African Americans in a multitude of ways. ... Meigs, Sr. counted 583 African American slaves held by Cherokee Indians (Davis). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The music within the novel "Beloved" presses upon the reader's own emotional boundaries by presenting to us the treatment of slaves through an entirely different medium; not only through language but through sound; through the "soul" of those who give their voice melody. ... Music for the black American has always been an encoded language, a means of unification and cultural preservation. ... The reader must observe that the singing is an allusion to the community itself, their own emotion and their acceptance of others, a powerful tool to be used to explain the survival of the African-A...

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The book was focused on the primitive modern sense of what it meant to be an African-American during the Harlem Renaissance. ... However, by 1922 his work had appeared in many magazines including Double Dealer that sought to publish African-American poets and writers. ... I made up a language in which to exist. ... Georgia forces the mixed-race Kabnis, who could be an allusion to Toomer himself, to confront the African-American past. ... The earth becomes a symbol of the south – home to the African-American people. ...

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Looking back into history, it is determined that many languages used the word race to "categorize human beings". ... This story not only gives insight on other races but of the African race the one in which we are more concerned. There is a biblical story that states Ham, the second son of Noah, was the ancestor of the African race, which is agreed upon by many scholars. ... The idea of Ham's succeeding generations being cursed is an important factor because it gives an explanation of the African race. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Its goal was to send the free slaves to Liberia, Africa. ... He often wrote in corse and blunt language that left no room to be misunderstood. ... Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass, (1818-1895), was the leading spokesman of African Americans in the 1800's. ... Harriet Tubman - Harriet Tubman was an African American whose daring rescues helped hundreds of slaves escape to freedom. ... Douglass, an eloquent ex-slave from Maryland, was the leading African American spokesperson of the time. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

O'Connor lived in a time period when, "Racial segregation was a system derived from the efforts of white Americans to keep African Americans in a subordinate status by denying them equal access to public facilities and ensuring that blacks lived apart from whites. During the era of slavery, most African Americans resided in the South, mainly in rural areas" (Segregation, Freedom's Story, TeacherServe). ... O'Connor uses language throughout her stories that a reader almost cringes in present day hearing, like in the "Geranium" when it says " I say they go...

• Word Count: 2519
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School