African Americans were found mainly in the North and South, while Native Americans were sprinkled all over the United States. ... There is a huge concept of "diversity" in American History. ... The Native Americans disguised themselves in the image to look like the Americans or the white people. ... Throughout it's history, American slavery has evolved and changed. ... In the early eighteenth century slaves made up more than seventy percent of the population in only South Carolina, and those slaves lived on holdings of more than twenty-five (Kolchin, 31). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book's purpose is to show how important African Americans were to the Southern economy, and tries to "correct the perversion of the history of blacks - in order to strike down the view that black Americans were without culture, without achievement, and without development for their first two hundred and fifty years on American soil." ... The first chapter of the book discusses the history of the slave trade in the western hemisphere. ... Cotton was in its early stages in 1810 and in tobacco production, a typical slave could produce about a ton of tobacco. ... As early as 1680 the m...

• Word Count: 3223
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• Grade Level: High School

What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be an American slave? ... Life in America for a slave was not a dream come true. ... I am an American, but I am also Black. ... When someone is forced to do anything against their will today it is easily forgotten about, but in the early 18th and 19th centuries not doing what you were told (even if you did not feel it is right) could result in a severe beating or even death. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the years, slavery has played a dominant role within the Cherokee Nation, inevitably affecting thousands of African Americans, American Indians, and Europeans alike. ... The purpose of this research is to outline a brief history of slavery within the Cherokee Nation, key conflicts, and the resulting outcomes. Before Europeans journeyed to North America and brought African slaves with them, Africans and Native Americans actually had a lot in common. ... However, there is a history of slavery long before white men stumbled upon the Americas. ... Early on in the Europeans settlement,...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Frederick Douglass was the leading spokesman of African Americans in the 1800's. ... He founded an antislavery newspaper, wrote several autobiographical books, and helped recruit African Americans for the Union army during the Civil War. ... Frederick Douglass is one of the most important people in American History. ... Another custom in slavery, probably also out of deference to the feelings of the white wife, is to part children from their mothers at a very early age. ... Dougalss said "I see, in the exclusion of the colored man from the Sixth Avenue Rail cars, the cruel and maligna...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Indeed I must confess that much of my early research was confined to biographies of Lincoln, examinations of his presidency, and his speeches and letters. ... Also there are those who believe that certainly Lincoln took this step with its military applications in mind, but also was making an attempt to put an end to an evil institution that had thrived in America for too long. One such example is Mark Krug, author of The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It. ... He made it clear even early in his career that he was opposed at least to the spread of slavery. ... Perhaps the best...

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The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817. It led antislavery protests during the early 1800's. ... Nat Turner - Nat Turner, a black slave and preacher, led the most famous slave revolt in United States history. ... More whites died during the rebellion led by Turner than in any other in the nation's history. ... The mob returned the following day and burned the hall, which had been inaugurated only three days earlier, to the ground. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The 1831 slave narrative The History of Mary Prince is indeed a multi-layered text. ... In many ways, her impact on history mirrors that of the myriad abolitionist women active during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. ... By the time of the History's publication, a substantial number of organizations were founded that protested slavery in England. ... African-American studies scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., explains the slave narrative in these terms: The Black slave narrators sought to indict both those who enslaved them and the meta- physical system drawn upon to justify their...

• Word Count: 3051
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School