Slavery according to the historians is the part of our history that we should be most ashamed of. ... We are repeating our mistakes and we are also repeating our history. ... But historians say that it all started as early as the 7th century. ... It is not late to really change the history of our society. ... Let our history show us that we can change, and that there is hope for a better world. ...

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Because Africans were both accessible and used to the tropical climate, they became the staple for American slave labor. ... As mentioned, the Qur'an greatly influenced the positive treatment of slaves.1 The Qur'an designated that there were different colors and early Muslims saw color as merely a fact with no negative or positive connotation or superiority and inferiority complex (Gomez 2005, 45). ... The opportunity to find slaves in the Americas was nixed when many of the Native Americans died from the foreign European pioneers' diseases. ... Slaves were transported from Afri...

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When I came back to America, I was in a state of shock for a while. ... Shortly after Columbus discovered America, in the early 1500s, Spain invaded what is now South America and attacked the Incas, Mayas and Aztecs who had civilized and developed cultures. ... In the early 19th Century, before the industrial revolution, European countries were occupying areas that had precious metals, slaves, and tropical products. ... Today, there are small civilizations of these tribes in South America and North America, but they live in extreme poverty. ... The biggest argument that I mentioned earlier: is...

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African-Americans had to endure such harsh treatment, but how can any criteria be established by which to grant reparations. ... In this paper, I will discuss my views on the reparations for African Americans. ... It was this same attitude that the early European missionaries took with Africa; that they are not capable of dealing with their own problems and situations. ... A similar situation with African Americans is with that of "Afro-centric history" (Asante, 174); many suggest that perhaps we ought to provide black student with their own curriculum, such as to instill in them a sense ...

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The first people who crossed the Bering land bridge to migrate to North America were known as "Clovis People", which were the name archaeologists given to the earliest human culture in the North American continent. ... It was the oldest Clovis burial ever found in North America. ... Kelly Graft, assistant professor in the Center for the Study of the First Americans and Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M, conclude: "these individuals who live in Siberia 24,000 years ago their gens contributes to first Americans gens and 14 to 38% of people who lived in South and North Amer...

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Lets go back in history and see how this whole thing acuatlly led up to to the Underground Railroad. There have been slaves through most of human history. ... Slavery was very different in early history, often people became slaves when their nation lost a war. ... In early times, slaves were usually recognized as human beings like the owners, just less fortunate. ... The outcome to all this is that the American Blacks had settled in. ...

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The Need to Believe In the late 18th century, a significant belief in the history of the world had arisen. ... America had also taken a bite from the forbidden fruit. ... Theories of racial history were transformed into theories of world history. ... During the early 19th century, America had become a financial powerhouse, dominated by whites. ... This event dealt with the genocide of the Native Americans. ...

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AFRICA ART Since the beginning Africa Art has played in integral part in American history. ... At the same time, many European artists of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance did not sign or date their work either. ... But most of the wooden dated from the late 19th or early 20th century. ... This was the earlier known sculpture of sub-Saharan Africa. ... Africa Art continues to play an integral part in mainstream America. ...

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With slaves spread over a vast region it was difficult to find a suitable female partner, many slaves died in the early years without ever doing so. ... 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. ... From the early days of slavery in the Americas slaves used wood, string, bones, skin, sticks, gourds, pans and horns to create music. Like America the Caribbean h...

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As do proverbs, African American folktales have origins rooted in West African literary and cultural forms of expression. When Africans were taken from their homeland and brought to America as slaves, they also brought with them their individual cultures, languages and customs. ... Their traditional tales were similar to those in early European culture where stories tried to explain natural phenomena in human terms. ... The griot, a person who was soaked with his cultures wisdom, would also have the duty to preserving ones history and keeping traditions alive. He had to remember stories, riddl...

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Enslaved African Americans developed a sense of racial identity. ... Yet through, storytelling, religion and music African Americans managed to preserve their culture. ... Storytelling, music, and dance have all played a central role in African culture, because they help preserve history and religious and social customs. ... Since storytellers or griots focus mainly on the history of their people ancestors are usually the principal subjects of a particular chronicle of the past (Stuckey, 14). ... Spirituals - Were a genre of religious folk song founded in American black and white musical t...

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History often likes to portray all Africans of this time period as helpless victims when in actuality come of them were just as, if not more, ruthless in the slave trade than their European counterparts. What history sometimes fails to mention is the fear based brutality that Africans suffered not at the hands of Europeans, but at the hands of their own people. ... Between the year 1650 and 1900, it is estimated that over 10.24 million enslaved Africans arrived in the Americas. ... The two areas by themselves alone are accountable for at least two-thirds of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in th...

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As an American, when it comes to Africa, one is on the outside looking in, waiting to be informed. ... From early silent films still depicting the British hero of 19th century novels, to early Americanized white heroes such as Humphrey Bogart in "African Queen", to the modern day action epic, evolution and has been slow in coming. ... He eventually gains the help of a haughty, unkempt rogue hunter from America. ... And with years of exploitation and misunderstanding in its long history, a lack of balance in western understanding and commitment is the last thing Afric...

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In Africa therefore, the development tends to have a very short history, with development programmes only being set up in the late 19th century. ... Development in the West and North America has been steady and successful. ... In view of the "laws of history" which Marx claimed to have discovered, Marxists mostly see development as inevitably involving a long and painful process in which capitalism matures, self-destructs and is transcended. ... There have not been the improvements in living standards which have become apparent in many Asian and Latin American countries. ...

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There cannot just be only one element to this complex history. ... Whereas, India had social issues such as famine and Latin America did not have the land capacity for the colonial powers to invest. ... This was also another way of dealing with wrongdoers in society, instead of implementing severe punishment- one could be sent out to the "dark continent." as most Europeans tended to see Africa. 2 The three reasons mentioned earlier are not the only definite reasons; these reasons are like the others that happen to be interrelated. ...

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The first Article is taken from the "BBC" history site, which begins with: "Within the space of four hundred years millions of people were forcibly taken from Africa as slaves. The majority of them went to the Americas, although many were taken to the Middle East and North Africa. ... For example, in the small area of the Gold Coast (the coastal area of contemporary Ghana), with a population no more than a hundred thousand in the early 17th century, there were about 43 autonomous chiefdoms at this time. ...

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Just a few years earlier, Queen Isabella of Spain hired a sailor from Genoa to reach India by sailing west. ... The ships then traveled to America, where slaves were exchanged for sugar, rum, salt, and other island products. ... Liberia Liberia is a West Africa nation originally founded by freed slaves from the American South between 1820 and 1865. ... Tolbert, was the grandson of freed American slaves. ... Liberia's recent history is a sad chapter for a nation whose founding was steeped in freedom. ...

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