Africa has only a few natural harbors, for that reason it's hard to land ships around Africa. ... Europeans would first ask to use the land then gradually take over and make the natives their laborers. ... The Europeans build roads, mines, bridges, and dams that helped make land more manageable. ... Some of these ways were good and some were bad. They did help industrialize the African society, but they also did bad things such as create slavery. ...

• Word Count: 891
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During the early years of colonization and exploration in North America and Africa, many New World "collided" and brought to each other many new things, both good and bad. ... Occasionally they burned sections of land in the wilderness for better hunting area, but other than that they provided no threat to its well being. ... The Europeans believed that humans had domination over the land. ... Also, the ill treatment of the Native Americans by the land hungry Europeans virtually wiped out their civilization. ...

• Word Count: 507
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Though the Europeans used Africans as slaves because they knew how to farm land and also were very hard workers. ... Plus both men and women knew how to work on the land. ... Going back to the video we watched in class it just reenacted how bad this time was but I am sure it was worse than what the video showed. ... See Africans cared about their family and land. ... Also, because there was plenty of land in Africa, which made the African people important, especially to the Europeans. ...

• Word Count: 1029
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Things got so bad that there was a war between the North and South called the Civil War. ... In 1896, Harriet got some land at an auction located in Auburn, NY (not far away from here!) Eventually, she opened a home for old people on that land. ...

• Word Count: 711
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• Grade Level: High School

Settlers fled to this land in order to be able to practice religion as they pleased, here they had the opposite to what they had in Europe. ... The treatment of the slaves was bad and even the treatment of the small African-American children were treated badly. ... America is the land of the free. ...

• Word Count: 1096
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

It is said in Canada, a slave could own land and even vote (National Geographic.com). ... Along with the good guys there has to be bad guys, these were the slave hunters. ... The African's helped cultivate land and fought with native American's in the Seminole Indian wars. ...

• Word Count: 1178
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

There never was true equality between human beings because society has created a place where different is bad. ... Starting in the early 1500's immigrants and travelers from Spain sailed to America to claim the land. ...

• Word Count: 721
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• Grade Level: High School

Although everyone knew slave's lives were bad, few knew the actual specifics and every day events of a slave's life. ... The slave was to receive a beating, but ran away into a pond and refused to come back to land. ... How could a sane person not feel bad for what slaves had to go through? ...

• Word Count: 1011
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• Grade Level: High School

Also slaves lived in such bad conditions that they caught diseases such as Yaws, measles, whooping cough, dropsy and dysentery. ... Some plantation owners gave their slaves a small piece of land, a truck-patch, where they could grow vegetables. ...

• Word Count: 1165
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• Grade Level: High School

Unsurprisingly Hollywood glossed over the truth to glorify the good guys winning over the bad guys and creates a feel good disposition from the movie. ... It also shows the anguish of the Africans and their struggles with adapting to being captive in a foreign land. ...

• Word Count: 1126
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

They do not want their slaves to differentiate themselves from their land or farm animals, as Douglass implies when he says that most slaves know how old they are no more than horses do. ... We are put in a situation we do not like, whether it is a bad home life, poverty, or social status, and we change things about our lives to put us in a position that will make us happier. ...

• Word Count: 1047
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

They use guns to steal land in North America (during 1660 to 1880s) and force blacks to work on it as slaves. ... So they come up with a big lie: racism, that blacks are not as good as whites, that blacks are screwed up, that blacks are born bad. ...

• Word Count: 1234
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