The Europeans who owned slaves also thought that the slaves were not smart enough because they could not speak English and they did not have a written language. This was proven not to be true either because the second generation of slaves learned the English language with no trouble at all. ... There were a many number of free blacks, consisting of those had been freed or those in fact that were never slave. ... Nine percent of blacks are free. ... In 1844, Ross married a free black named John Tubman and took his last name. ...

• Word Count: 2041
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

He was a good scholar, studying at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania and Boston University. At Crozer, he decided to study ministry. ... A turning point in his life occurred when an English teacher told him to strive to be a carpenter rather than a lawyer. ... The thought of being free from oppression, instilled excitement and a drive to study the teachings of the Nation of Islam. ... For him, the white race was an enemy to all others and the only way to stop was to break free and form their own nation. ...

• Word Count: 2369
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

All slaves knew work associated with their culture and not the American culture, left them with nothing, so when freed in the late 1800's they had no other trade skills. ... "N-i-g-g-a is a term coined by white supremacists and slave masters who intended to harm the psychology and the social standing of black slaves," says Michael Eric Dyson, who teaches African-American studies at DePaul University. ... When I was in school all I learn about blacks history was that Harriet Tubeman freed 300 slaves, Martin Luther King's "I have a speech" and how Rosa Parks started the boycott on buse...

• Word Count: 1650
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During this period, the slaves really tried to break free from their past stereotypes. ... Once the North had defeated the South in the war, the slaves were freed from bondage, however, that did not mean that they would be free from the terrible prejudice that still permeated the country. ... Today there is no legal segregation in colleges but a recent study revealed that most southern colleges remain segregated. ... The fight occurred at the Study Hall pub when racial slurs were used against the black students. ... This, however, could be part of the problem says Shelby Steele,...

• Word Count: 2609
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Robert Beverley's "The History and Present State of Virginia"," is important to the study of the origins of slavery as the first published history of a British colony by a native of North America. ... As an ambitious planter, Beverley deplored the "heavy impositions "2 put upon colonists by the English crown and used outspoken Americanism to celebrate Virginia's quality of governance in rebuke. ... Verse 41 describes servitude as temporary, after which his whole family shall be free. ...

• Word Count: 1094
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Reviewers praised her for her use of the epistolary form, in which written correspondence between characters comprises the content of the book, and her ability to use black folk English. ... Through both mediums, people realize that the sexual abuse Celie endures from her stepfather and husband represents how all women should break free from this cycle so that they can be seen as individuals and not sex objects. ... This study shows the journey of Black women from Self-hatred to Self-love which helps them to liberate themselves from the men, from cruelty, violence and selfishness. ...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6

The English and Dutch colonized South Africa in the seventeenth century. Early in the colonization of South Africa, the English domination of the Dutch descendents (known as Boers or Afrikaners) resulted in the Dutch establishing the new colonies of Orange Free State and Transvaal. And, the discovery of diamonds in these newly founded colonies, around 1900, resulted in an English raids throughout South Africa during the early eighteenth century. This raid sparked the volatile Boer War between the English and the Dutch. ... Caluza's music, which merged choral, ragtime and English musical ...

• Word Count: 3760
• Approx Pages: 15

Its primary language is African American Vernacular English 2. ... Williams asserts that hip-hop is all music that comes out of struggle by black folks in this country trying to be free and reflects the struggle in so many ways (Williams, 2014). ...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Another text which explores this theme is the work of Coguano (1787), that describes, in English, the horrific conditions aboard the slave ships. ... The first one uses many documents, reports and testimonies produced by the English tribunals in eighteenth century, without consideration to the slaves point of view, or African American literature. ...

• Word Count: 4160
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

"# Degler's analysis of Negro discrimination continued with an explanation saying, "Thus, legal slavery in the English colonies reinforced and helped to perpetuate the discrimination against the Negro which prevailed almost from the beginning of settlement... Although, their meanings of race varied from place to place and "it was the English in North America who developed the most rigid and exclusionist form of race ideology" (Smedley 17). ...

• Word Count: 3801
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Martin Luther King and his View of the American Dream" Introduction The reason why I have chosen the topic "Martin Luther King and his view of the American Dream" for my research paper has its roots in my early childhood. My mom was very impressed of King and read picture books about hi...

• Word Count: 4457
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School