In Richard Wright's Native Son, Bigger Thomas, the main character, attempts to attain personal freedom in a racist prohibiting society. Richard Wright's "Native Son" demonstrates how the racist white society oppresses personal freedom and perpetuates evil. ... Throughout his book, Wright depicts religion as something Digger views as suppression against African Americans. ... Bigger goes on to exclaim the cross is nothing but a lie, implying that he has lost all faith in religion, seeing it as only another tool of white society to control African Americans. ... In Native Son, Bigge...

• Word Count: 1690
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... RELIGION: Obeah viewed by whites" as a superstition was a form of slave religion a powerful facet of African culture transplanted to America. ... Like America, slave religion in the Caribbean shared a great deal of the same features. ... Like America the Caribbean h...

• Word Count: 2095
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Enslaved African Americans developed a sense of racial identity. ... Yet through, storytelling, religion and music African Americans managed to preserve their culture. ... Religion and life Away from the view of owners and overseers, slaves lived their own lives. ... Religion served as a second refuge. In the colonial period, African slaves usually clung to their native religions, and many slave owners were suspicious of others who sought to convert their slaves to Christianity, in part because they feared that converted slaves would have to be freed. ...

• Word Count: 2002
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Because Africans were both accessible and used to the tropical climate, they became the staple for American slave labor. ... The treatment of slaves varied across religions. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 1892
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The first quatrain draws upon her new self as an American. ... She uses religion in her argument, writing that it was through God's own "mercy," that she was saved from her "pagan" land and allowed her to seek redemption. ... As an African American woman slave, Wheatley had to read only what was thoughtfully handed down to her by white Americans. ... Wheatley's skillfully chose to write in a level that was at her audience's caliber; "and it must be borne in mind that she was neither reading, nor writing, nor speaking to her audience in her native language," (Kafka 46). ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Whereas, India had social issues such as famine and Latin America did not have the land capacity for the colonial powers to invest. ... Not only did the colonial state provide a simpler way of understanding identity, the colonial state provided religion and schooling systems in order to conduct the behavior of the colonized subjects. ... In the light of this, African customs, religion, language, heritage and way of life was discouraged. ... " 4 It is clear to see the Colonial thinking of superiority and dominance in the name of religion. ... Evidence which was illustrated previously s...

• Word Count: 2491
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

AFRICA ART Since the beginning Africa Art has played in integral part in American history. ... Ife, Benin and Djenne' made great contributions to Africa art, culture, religion, military and politics. ... Africa Art continues to play an integral part in mainstream America. ... Many Blacks and native African artists continue to produce great works. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The ships then traveled to America, where slaves were exchanged for sugar, rum, salt, and other island products. ... He forced the native people to work under cruel conditions in his rubber plants. ... Africans learned of the faith through devout Christians who traveled to Africa on a mission to teach their religion. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 2251
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School