Other Americans believe that there is no debt owed. ... There is a large population of "blacks" in America who either themselves came at the end of slavery or have ancestors who came after slavery had ended. ... Before slavery was even abolished, white slave owners totaled fewer than 10% of the population. ... It distracts the black population and can " sustain more lasting damage from misallocating their time, attention and efforts" (Sowell, p. 2, 2000). ... Blacks in America today are better off in America than they would be if they were in Africa. ...

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The Confederacy now consists of eleven states with a population of 9 million (including 3.5 million slaves). Twenty-three states, with a population of 22 million, remain in the Union. With such population favoring the North, one would think that the war is in their hands. ... In conclusion, the Union and Confederacy held different dogmas in America. Each faction thought its methods to be the best for America. ...

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Most blacks in America were slaves on plantation-sized units in the seven states of the South. ... Virginia's slave population reaches 200,000, up from over 100,000 from 1756. ... By the American Revolution, 20 percent of the overall population in the thirteen colonies was of African descent. ... During the Revolutionary era, more than half of all African-Americans lived in Virginia and Maryland. ... The majority, but not all, of these African-Americans were slaves. ...

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On November 7th, 1775, Lord Dunmore made his fated proclamation; this utterance changed the course of the American Revolution for the African-American. ... Had the rhetoric of American liberty accounted for the African-American? The injustices served out to the African-American between 1775 and 1776 by the white American patriot made the British promise of emancipation both appealing and logical. ... In April, 1775, Dunmore, in a letter to General Gage, indicated the destructive influence that the slave population could have: "that if any injury or insult was offer"d he would declare freedo...

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The American Civil War was a milestone in the history of not only the United States, but the world as well. ... Through the bloodiest battles in American history, the goals of the Northern and Southern counterparts were either achieved or failed. ... Whether he felt this was true or not, it was essential to the Confederacy gaining victory, because a fairly big portion of the population in the South consisted of yeomen farmers. ... These bloody battles murdered more Americans than in any war in U.S. history. ... The battles only discouraged the Southern population as a whole because they ...

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In 1860 its population ranged around 31.500.000 people, 12.1% of which were represented by slaves. Why is it important to make a comparison between nowadays United States' population and 1860's ones? ... Thus, the American Civil War begun. ... Over the years, black population have been wining an equal treatment in society, despite still nowadays are troubles in several countries, not only in the United States of America, but also in South Africa, Rwanda, and Argentina. ... The actions, political movements, books, discourses, etc that had been created through this year shows how the ...

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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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" He then states how it is so beneficial that the black population keeps on growing while enslaved. This then, in Calhoun's opinion, shows how slavery is vital for the black population. ... It constitutes the curse of slavery to both the bond and free portions of our population. ... Samuel Cartwright, a doctor residing at the University of Louisiana, debates two diseases that he believes are solely linked to the African American race. ...

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That's what the government did to African-American's. ... It seems like we can make a fuss and, fight others for their wrong doings, but "our" very own American government cant help black American get reparations or a sorry for our troubles. ... In 1808, less than 10% of the white U.S. population owned slaves. ... However, American slavery was based on race (news.org). ... African Americans continue to suffer even through slavery has ended. ...

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The populations of slaves started to grow after 1700's. ... Overtime African American lifestyle changed drastically, and African American men and women created new lives for themselves. ... Therefore, the effects of the American Revolutionary War on African Americans depended on where they lived. ... Thus, many African-Americans had their chances of freedom in various ways. ... Their population grew quickly between 1775 and 1810 but the number of slaves that were held captive grew even larger. ...

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This was caused by the inability of it's slave population to reproduce. ... Unlike South Africa where there was a strong sense of tribal unity or in Brazil where slaves were imported relatively frequently giving them a sense of family and a bond with each other, American slaves were second or third generation slaves who new nothing of there culture or native lands and who where stripped from there family at a early age. ... First we look at Brazil and find that it imported slaves due to its lack of population. Portugal Unlike England was very small in native population and discouraged ...

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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. ... Like America, slave religion in the Caribbean shared a great deal of the same features. ... As in America the Obeah exerted a great deal of power and influence over the slave population and plantation owners in the Caribbean feared these charismatic religious leaders like their counterparts in America as they could incite slaves to question their oppression. ... Like America the Caribbean h...

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By 1789, the population of free coloreds was virtually equal with that of the white population and increasing at a much more rapid rate than the whites. ... In every manner they sought to distance themselves from the slave population from which they had emerged from. ... Saint Domingue was renowned for its brutality; its reputation was such that in the rest of the Americas it was a common threat to slaves to sell them to Saint Domingue if they did not cooperate (Corbett). This slave population was also divided into two major categories domestic slaves and field slaves. ... But the one issu...

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Civil War Was the American Civil War caused by slavery or economics? ... With the northern and western states populations growing due to the mass migration, the southern states felt threatened at the thought of slavery being outlawed by the rest of the country. They found a way prevent this from occurring by creating the three-fifths compromise, which allowed for three of every five slaves to be counted as part of each states population. ... By this time, the northerners were quite opposed to the idea of people being considered property, and those people (property) being counted as part of...

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While some may argue that slavery no longer affects African-Americans, we still see small amounts of animosity even today. ... Although the average American had little power or say regarding the issue, many were brainwashed into believing African-Americans were inferior or unequal. ... Jefferson, the genius of politics, could see no way for African-Americans to live in society as free people. ... While abolitionists and slave-owners argued over the evil, a majority of the population stayed uninvolved because there were very few positives for them in terms of self-interest. ... In her article a...

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As long as slavery existed in America, equality between the races would be impossible. ... Lincoln alludes to what is the greatest political irony in American history that Americans were never so enamored with the liberty than when they were surrounded by slaves. ... To this end, he was in favor of "second-class citizenship" of African-American living in Illinois. Finally, Lincoln used prejudice to persuade his audience to rethink their attitudes towards African-Americans. ... Unlike Young America, the "Old Fogy" did not think he knew everything. ...

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The merits of the Montesquieu did not turn up until The Federalist; and although a perverse argument could be made that Madison's ideal was truly in the tradition of John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, the Locke whom the American rebels treated as an honorary president was a pluralistic defender of vested rights, not of parliamentary supremacy. ... The issue was not the morality of slavery, but rather the concrete aspects of population, taxation, commerce, and representation. ... Other issues concerning Southerners, perhaps more so than slaves, were things such as ta...

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This quotation shows how Kunta compares the rich culture in his African hometown, to the American culture. ... The director makes the characters thoroughly helpless, because he wants to stress the fact of the cruel and harsh life the slaves faced in America. ... The director made this personality change in the white characters, because this movie is made right after the civil rights movement, and if he does not show kindness in the whites, the movie would lose popularity among the majority of the population. ... This scene sets up the story of Kunta's forlorn and long ill fated life in Am...

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Going into the nineteenth century cotton came to the forefront of the American economy, making the economy a success, and revolutionizing slavery in the United States. Solomon Northup's experiences on Bayou Boeuf are a good representation of how the increasing production of cotton in the United States resulted in the mass movement of slaves, and the emergence of a new kind of slave labor, one in which was even more labor intensive than previous slave labor in North America. ... In older slave regions there was not as much gender imbalance, resulting in a slave population that would r...

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"African slaves were placed on ships and began the long journey to the Americas.   ... 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. The trip from Africa to the Americas took at least six weeks.   ... "The Supreme Court decided the citizenship question for African Americans, slave and free, in Scott v. ... Because the black population was so large in many parts of the South, whites were fearful of their participation in the political process. ...

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The French treated the Louisiana colony as a military post to prevent England colonies from gaining too much control of the Americas. ... She then later discusses how the conditions that were evident during the early days of colonization created a "creole or Afro-American slave culture through a process of blending and adaptation of cultural materials brought by the slaves who were first introduced" (159). ... The African population so heavily outnumbered the white that to use any other for internal trade would be ridiculous. ...

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Jones, an Ohioan African-American, to Simon Cameron, the Secretary of War, we are able to see his true desire to fight. Jones wrote about how Ohio was a free state and how its population was filled with blacks willing to fight but laws that were put in place did not allow it. ...

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Blacks were not given an expressive place in society for lack of education and attention from the white population. The cause of antislavery was always argued by the predominantly white abolitionists rather than Africans and African Americans who were directly affected by slavery. ... He changes: • the date from February 1805 to August 1799 • the name of the Spanish slaveship from the Tryal to the San Dominick and of the American ship from the Perseverance to the Bachelor's Delight. ... • The monetary reward promised to the American sailors for subduing the mutinist...

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They also tried t o negate the republicans strength bye fusing the 3 opposing parties, Whigs, Know Nothings, and American parties. ... The North had more population, and more ways to produce weapons due to the abundance of factories. ...

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By the late 1860s, the south had a major percentage of its population as slaveholders and relied on these slaves as the main source of labor (Document H). ... 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 freedom (Document F). ...

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