Linguistics Of course, African slaves had their own language before they came to America. ... As would be expected, they adapted to the English language retaining distinctly African subtleties. ... This altered language is sometimes referred to as "Black English," and is said to be "spoken at times by as many as 80% to 90% of African-Americans." ... In other words, phrases such as "ain't" and "wasn't" that are wrong in English would have made perfect sense in an African language. ... Their advancements in music, art, religion, language, and science have helped shape ...

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The Africans brought here against their will were not born slaves. ... In Africa their cultures were rich and varied, as different from one another as were the African peoples themselves. Their colors, their languages, their food, their clothing differed in a range as great as the difference in size between the pygmies and the giant Watusi of Africa. ... "Oroonoko" was a love story about an african prince put into slavery. ... He is a leader of an African Tribe, and nobleman of African descent. ...

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The history of the African-American has been a story of assimilation and resistance. ... This fear of how resistance could be met compelled many African slaves to assimilate to their new life. ... They began to take on the cultures and the language of the majority. Thus, many slaves left behind the beliefs and traditions that had been taught to them in Africa. Many of the African slaves in America had the "Fanta Mentality." ...

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Carolina and the middle states enslaved Africans as well. ... There they were traded for Africans. ... The slaves mixed their African roots with Christianity. ... Off the coast of South Carolina, Africans evolved their own language, Gullah. Gullah blended English with African languages such as Yoruba and Ibo. ...

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Discrimination and prejudice integrates into our ever-evolving society like a recognizable language. ... Tracing these behaviors back to the early stepping stones of our country, we discover it was not just a language, but more so a way of life. ... African servants, who were stripped of their heritage and forced to embody a new set of beliefs, were seen as the best candidates for the demand in workers, thus the stigma was born. ... And if 50 million Africans, by the 1800's, are greeted with enslavement and/or death, it is more of lifestyle of disposable assets. With the turn of the cen...

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The first Africans that were brought to America were not slaves. ... In 1619 twenty slaves arrived who had been taught the English language and given Christian names. ... One African, Antonio Negro, survived a massacre and went on to own 250 acres of land. ... Still these African American slaves pressed on against something truly evil. ... The 17th century produced African Americans that would change some aristocratic whites assumptions of African Americans. ...

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The first Africans that were brought to America were not slaves. ... In 1619 twenty slaves arrived who had been taught the English language and given Christian names. ... One African, Antonio Negro, survived a massacre and went on to own 250 acres of land. ... Still these African American slaves pressed on against something truly evil. ... The 17th century produced African Americans that would change some aristocratic whites assumptions of African Americans. ...

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I would then like to insert the argument that the area of literature in which Wheatley published her works was highly censored since she was first African American slave to be formally recognized as a writer. ... In Wheatley's poem, "On Being Brought from Africa to America", the similarity of her writing to the message of the spirituals is apparent in carefully placed lines throughout the poem. ... In her poem Wheatley reminds not only her fellow African American's but Christians as well that all Christians, black and white, are admitted into heaven. Wheatley's poems an...

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Through beatings, mental abuse, trickery and all-out cruelty, White Americans worked to control African Americans in every aspect. An economical control of free labor diminished any ideas of liberation for African Americans. ... They also formed their own secrete language through church songs, usually uprising against their suppressors. ... He comes across a lot of nice slave owners and makes sure to differentiate between the slave owners in Africa and America. The author tells of the language barriers and moral regards between the cultures. ...

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The African resistance in the United states was much different than that of African resistance in other parts of the world. ... Culturally they would continue to practice their native dances, read moral narratives, played music, kept their native language patterns alive, built and maintained families, practiced their own spiritual beliefs, and even did magic. "The slaves made European forms serve African functions." ... The free Africans also helped the cause. The free Africans were also being mistreated and abused. ...

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Some people feel that it is far too offensive with its excessive use of the word "nigger" and that it openly stereotypes African Americans. ... Raised from the beginning to believe that slavery was fine and that blacks were inferior to whites, Huck soon learns differently from his travels with Jim, an African American slave. ... The other main character, Jim, should not be looked at as an African American stereotype, but a man of courage who is seeking freedom to be reunited with his family. ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains an abundance of racial slurs, however, many of these...

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The language used in this narrative is very proper and Equiano also goes out of his way to show respect for the white Europeans while voicing his opinion on slavery as shown here: Tortures, murder, and every other imaginable barbarity and iniquity, are practiced upon poor slaves with impunity. ... He spends a lot of time showing similarities in African and European culture. ... Slaves in Africa were not sold or bought though. ... Equiano believes that slaves in Africa are not treated harshly at all though because, "they do no more work than other members of the community, even their m...

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We must give reparations to African American descendents. ... Government had benefited from the slave labor of African Americans. ... America today as we know it was built off the free, skilled labor of African American Slaves. ... They were stripped of all dignity and culture being taken from Africa. They couldn't keep their culture because there are so many different tribes in Africa and they all spoke different languages, and when they were all mashed together in America how could they communicate? ...

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(Twain 16) African Americans always have been talked down and they are just as equal as a white man. ... Kids now days do not go up to an African American and call them a nigger. ... The reason that people get so mad at this novel is because of the language. ... Jim, an African American slave in the novel was introduced as a lower class civilian who stole. ... Most African Americans had nothing to eat and they had to steal if they wanted something to eat. ...

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The Dutch would capture Africans on their homeland and take them through the Middle Passage to the New World where they would be treated like animals for the remainder of their lives. African slavery was much more efficient from the colonial's perspective. ... The Dutch would make arrangements with tribal officials in Africa for the purchase of slaves. ... They would usually teach them the English language and sometimes a more extensive education. ... If they were smart enough to learn another language than certainly they are smart enough to organize a revolt. ...

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Providing housing, food, and work for the poor and uneducated Africans brought into the United States. ... Another benefit that affected the slaves would be that when they got their freedom they had learned the language and the culture of the white man. ...

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LITERARY ANALYSIS - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain, the author of the one of the greatest novels in American literature, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, portrays his opinion of prejudice of African Americans during the 19th Century in the United States by criticizing the white people who have "racism". ... By breaking Huck's prejudice over African Americans during his journey with Jim, Twain is trying to reflect the foolishness of prejudice which uncountable number of white people had during the time period. ... Despite his ignorance and irresponsible be...

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Lincoln believed that the slaves should just be sent back to Africa or killed or saved or whatever as long as keeping the union peaceful was the number one priority. ... The author of this film made the language easily understandable so that the audience could easily keep up with the intricate details of the story line. The language was modern and very to the point without the unneeded fillings, which cause boredom. ...

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This provision was not permitted as white slave owners viewed blacks as property and as being unable to learn proper grammar and structure of the English language. ... During those times it was acceptable to lynch an African American man, and acceptable to use the "N" word. ...

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Frederick Douglass The work of Douglass was one of the first African-American literary works, an important autobiography representing the black culture. ... In his writing, the language is greatly simplified, as his education was somehow lacking. ...

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Seuss, with his wacky language and understanding of this harsh world, brought us the incredible story of Horton Hears a Who where, "a person is a person, no matter how small". ... Second of all, Eddoo takes advantage of Abina's ignorance of law, court etiquette, and complicated language to make her appear incompetent to the jury. Since the qualifications to sit on a jury included speaking English well, owning land or having money, and being male, they were much more likely to sympathize on the side of Eddoo rather than the inarticulate African American woman. ...

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Each character in Beloved is a former slave with a painful and scaring past. Sethe, a main character, killed her first-born daughter to protect her from slavery and has been haunted by the ghost of her first born for 18 years. Sethe lives in this haunted house with her daughter Denver, who i...

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"Compare your own language , extracted from your Declaration of Independence, with your cruelties and murders inflicted by your cruel and unmerciful fathers and yourselves on our fathers and on us--men who have never given your fathers or you the least provocation!!!!!!... Not only were peoples feelings on slavery changing but so were they're views on African-Americans. ...

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