The Gender Construction of Women in Early America Life was difficult in the early colonization of North America by the Europeans. The Native people were being forced off the land they had lived on for thousands of years, and forced to adopt they ways of the colonizers. ... In most of the Native American cultures, women were valued beings. ... As in the Native American culture, in most West African societies it was the women who dominated agriculture. ... This was the most stability a slave in North America could hope for. ...

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South American imperialism dramatically changed the economy for the native people of South America and thus changed the way that they lived their lives. ... During the era of imperialism in South America, there was a large decline of the native population and unfortunately the Spanish that came to America didn't have a lot of knowledge about agricultural and mining. ... This increase of jobs for the natives of South America definitely helped these people economically. ... The large amounts of Slaves brought into South America changed life greatly for the native people. ... After the Era...

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These types of servants we made up European, and native people. ... Cotton became a staple in America, which primarily carried their financial state in New York. African slaves were being placed in plantations to do work which the Americans saw fit for their capabilities only, opposed to the domestic servants. ... There were many disadvantages in native and white slavery that they did not face with the Africans; native people refused work and tried to escape, as well as the supply of natives was limited and whites worked on contracts, time limits and had legal protection[Sim14]. ... These peop...

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The Middle Passage referred to the second leg of the triangular trade, in which Africans were sent to the Americas to work as slaves. This is all because the Native Americans began to die out due to European disease. ... If a slave were to die en route to the Americas, he would toss them over the side of the ship. ...

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Spanish conquistadors set out hoping to trade goods for riches, but quickly enslaved the Native American people to make them search for gold and silver. Millions of Native Americans died either from disease, malnutrition, or Spanish torment. ... In 1501 the government in Madrid authorized the introduction of Africans as a substitution for the decline in Native American population. ... Mining silver Peru, Africans worked alongside with Native Americans. ... The Portuguese's early dominant position gave them an advantage in the slave trade, because the profit of Native American labor cr...

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Why America Allows slavery in the 21st century? ... Even though the colonizers worked in some ways along with the Native Americans, they also intimidated them with their weapons and all because of their ignorance. ... Other US corporations don't even need to bring them to America. They go to poor countries in Central and South America looking for people who will set for lower wages than Americans. ... It is not only Americas fault. ...

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Another reason that enslaved Africans were used because they were much preferred over Native Americans and indentured servants. Native Americans were not used commonly because they were hard to maintain as well caused specific problems to the colonies. Enslaved Native Americans were able to break away from their owners successfully because of their knowledge of the land. ... Using Native Americans also disrupted the trade between them as well cause a lot of tension in the frontier. In addition, the amount of Native Americans started to become limited due to epidemics and wars. ...

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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. ... By setting aside their forced leaving of their native Africa the slaves emerged with new identities with local roots but all based on their strong cultural belief and need for kinship. ... Like America, slave religion in the Caribbean shared a great deal of the same features. ... Like America the Caribbean h...

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To designate responsibility for the growth of slavery in the American colonies at first appears to be a difficult task. ... One can start by arguing that if the leaders of Africa failed to imprison and then sell innocent victims that slavery itself wouldn't have evolved in the Americas. ... In fact, during early settlement Native Americans were used as slaves as well. So, one then must assess the British Royal African Company's involvement in North American slavery. ... To me it's quite simple, the party that is responsible for the growth of slavery in the American colonies is t...

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Africans were transported to America to be sold throughout the continent as slave labourers. ... Portugal had been present in Western Africa for several years but in 1445 the King, Henry the Navigator instructed his sailors on their way to the continent to win over the natives so they could purchase human beings to be used as free labour rather than to kidnap them as they had done previously4. ... That being the Portuguese settlers in the Americas or the "New World" were given loans with easy repayment and interest plans to buy more slaves and develop sugar plantations. Africans were...

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The United States of America was founded as a country where "all men are created equal". ... Slavery was a pesky issue that was second to issues like manifest destiny, Native American problems, and foreign issues. ... This bill was ruled unconstitutional and was never passed but it had a lingering effect in Congress and on the American people. ...

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Because Africans were both accessible and used to the tropical climate, they became the staple for American slave labor. ... 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 Africa to the Americas in a complicated process. The triangular trade route, called the transatlantic slave trade, connected the Americas, Europe and Africa. ... The shipment process of slaves from Africa to the Americas was often uncivilized and killed 13% of all captors (Gomez 2005, 73). ...

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Olaudah Equiano, a native of the African province Eboe and author of The Interesting Narrative experienced the cruel and inhumane life of a slave. ... He faced slavery on several fronts, in his native Africa, the West Indies, Europe and America. ... It is no wonder so many of these African natives would prefer death to slavery. ... The inhumane treatment of the African natives was left unattended throughout the duration and a prejudice against them was all but expected, much of which remains today. ...

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Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman's book Time on the Cross, analyzes the Southern economy before and after the Civil War. 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 authors believe that historians and abolitionists before Wor...

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Other slaves were converted once they were in America. ... In conclusion, slaves were reluctant to convert to Christianity but after seeing all the similarities between Christianity and their native African religion, the slaves started seeing it as a path for equality....

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Death, especially for the women was not only seemed as a liberation from the extreme conditions of slavery but, regarding t their African beliefs, as a means of escape permitting the dead to return to their native land. ... One significant woman who successful guided slaves to freedom during slavery was Harriet Tubman, formerly a slave in the American South, Harriet Tubman became known as the most famous guide of the Underground Railroad, a secret network that during the mid-1800s helped slaves escape to freedom in the northern United States and Canada. ...

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Joseph Ellis opens up "Founding Brothers" by explaining "No event in American history which was so improbable at the time has seemed to inevitable in retrospect as the American Revolution" (Ellis 3). He claimed the American Revolution was inevitable because of those who were urging for independence tried everything they could to gain independence. ... There was no Africans or Native Americans," because the image of America was thought of a white, nothing else (Ellis 101). ... Ellis also explains that Madison knew the "American Revolution promised freedom, and slav...

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Introduction The Middle Passage is the crossing of the Ocean from Africa to America of African people, who passed from the state of liberty to the state of slavery, and took place between the XVI and XIX centuries. ... The Diaspora gives birth to a new human being: the African American, who links together the African and the American culture. ... The phase of transition from Africa to America took place on the slave ship which had two important functions: the first was the "transmutation", which meant that the transportation of the bodies of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean transfor...

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With the decline of the Amerindian population, labor from Africa formed the basis of the exploitation of the gold and agricultural resources of the export sectors of the Americas, with sugar plantations absorbing well over two thirds of slaves carried across the Atlantic by the major European and Euro-American powers. ... The short answer to the first of these two questions is that European expansion to the Americas was to mainly tropical and semi-tropical areas. ... African capacity to resist Europeans ensured that sugar plantations were established in the Americas rather than in Africa. ......

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Washington's real quality was the American Revolution. ... This cautioning got to be some piece of the American political scene. ... He was again asked to be the American power if The US went to war with France over the XYZ undertaking. ... It took America around a hundred years to do likewise4. George Washington was America's saint, first president and he was likewise a slave holder. ...

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"Cortés pointed out that the land was fruitful, rich in gold, and that the chief and all the natives seemed to bear us good will; Being united in public assembly we agreed to write to your Majesties sending them all the gold, silver and jewels which we have obtained in this country."" This was a piece of a letter to Governor Vela¡zquez from Cortés justifying his actions on not following the Governor's instructions, which was to find as much gold as possible by bartering with the natives. ... The main goals in the expansion were to Christianize the Indians, to gain trad...

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