The atrocities committed during the colonization times makes us realize how much we have changed and how civilized we are today. ... After the declaration of independence when Thomas Jefferson stated that "All men are created equal", the slaves thought that they would gain also some freedom as a result of the American Revolution. ... Modern slaves, as I named them, have some similarities with the ones we saw during the colonization period. ... They come from poverty and we take advantage of their condition. ... Most of them work in crops or as servants and Americans take advantage from them by...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The slaves were sailed to North America, South America, and the Caribbean and exchanged for sugar, tobacco, and other products that were shipped to Europe. ... During these times, slaves stayed below for extended periods.   ... Southerners resisted, and northerners eventually acquiesced to state's rights rhetoric, leaving African Americans the victims of state and national governments' refusal to enforce the legislation. 1 During the Civil War, Lincoln "freed" slaves in specific regions of the U.S. ... The workers never understood or they rejected the idea that they had to take ...

• Word Count: 2175
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography

The cultivation of cash crops was very essential for the economy in the South during the American colonial times. ... The slave trade, also known as the Triangular Trade, was barbaric since Europeans took advantage of Africa's overwhelming loss of population, creating easy access to exploitation and domination. ... It weakened Africa as a continent since they lost millions of their strongest men and women during the slave trade, resulting in an underdeveloped continent. According to a Ghanaian historian and lawyer named Mohamed Shaibu Abdulai, the slave trade prevented an agrarian revolut...

• Word Count: 1478
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many took advantage of their position to exploit slave women sexually. ... Enslaved African Americans developed a sense of racial identity. ... Yet through, storytelling, religion and music African Americans managed to preserve their culture. ... Spirituals - Were a genre of religious folk song founded in American black and white musical traditions. ... During the decades following the American Revolution, however, Christianity was increasingly central to the slaves" cultura...

• Word Count: 2002
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate