Their personalities, characteristics, and physicality were terribly exaggerated for the white people's enjoyment. ... Because of this, people started to assume that Mammies preferred the white children over their own children. ... This is what people didn't understand. ... Robinson mentions that the view of Mammy is only ever seen through the positive eyes of the white people. Her story of love and devotion to the white children are all that people are told about. ...

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Also, the people who would benefit from the reparations would have to prove their ancestor/s was owned by a white person rather than by his/her African captor. If the slave was owned by a white person, it would be necessary for there to be proof that the white person was an American rather than a white immigrant. ... Not only would descendents of Union soldiers feel enough had been sacrificed, but descendents of white people who were not in the military and promoted the abolishment of slavery would feel the same way. ... The people who agree reparations should be paid many times become raci...

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Even as a young boy Douglass becomes frustrated at the fact that he does not know his birthday but all the white children do. ... He plays games with white children in order to improve his literacy and jumps at reading everything he can get his hands on. ... He recognizes that many people are not aware of the severity of suffering that slaves endure and hopes to bring that reality to light. ... Douglass does however let some emotions come forth during his famous speech overlooking the Chesapeake Bay where he wishes to be as free as white sails of the ship. ... It demonstrates the power of t...

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Today, reparations more often involve government's payments to people it has mistreated. ... In 1808, less than 10% of the white U.S. population owned slaves. Should only the white descendants of slaveholders have to finance these reparations? Shouldn"t white descendants of non-slave holders be excluded from financing this farce? ... Aetna Insurance sold policies to white people so that they could recover when their slaves ran away (Copper). ...

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The ones who were able to comprehend the fact that all people are born equal opposed abolition for one of two reasons. ... Jefferson, the genius of politics, could see no way for African-Americans to live in society as free people. ... The abolition of slavery did not completely end the idea that white people were superior. ... This led to many racist laws and horrible acts in the name of "white power". ... In his article he quotes Annette Gordon-Reed as saying "African-American enslaved people were the only people who I think were made to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the thi...

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Portugal Unlike England was very small in native population and discouraged people from settling there. ... These half whites sought to become more white as the years progressed not because of written laws but because it was easy to see that the whiter you were the better the chance you had of advancing in society. Mulattoes disassociated themselves with blacks and thought of themselves as superior, this thought of white superiority helped to disunify the black population and fortify the position that the white ruling class was superior. ... The English did not keep there promises to the nativ...

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In the nineteenth century, white men needed slaves to do work on their plantations. The white man didn't treat these slaves as human beings but rather as objects or property. ... This shows the dehumanizing of slaves by the white man. ... By seeing the white man do harm to the black slaves made the slaves have a sense of worthlessness. ... This shows how slaves can learn how to be educated people as well as the white man. ...

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The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln, proclaimed the freedom of enslaved people in the ten states still rebellious. ... The racist attitudes of many people left whites with low expectations for the black soldiers. ... The small number of blacks located in Massachusetts was not enough to form a regiment but people used other ways of informing the public. ... They were told that they would be treated the same, as well as paid the same amount as their fellow white soldiers. ... He bean to learn new things about his troops and was ecstatic with the number of intel...

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They are also meant to stir up a moral feeling for the slave, and if successful in doing so, to prove that slave laws are immoral and inhuman - this would "convince the people of the Free States what Slavery really is"(Jacobs XIV ), and would contribute to its abolishment. Humanity was denied from the black slaves in order to justify white ownership over them, and treating slaves inhumanly convinced the white owner that slaves were inhuman. ... Even if the father was white, by the "one drop rule" the child was considered to be black and thus "followed the condition of the mother"(Douglass 3...

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Slaves were able to develop methods of worship that were not only unique to their people, but were filled with elements of worship not previously associated with traditionally Christian worship. ... The content of these sermons was often consistent with themes from the Old Testament concentrating on deliverance, such as Moses and Joshua, which were the same stories that the white slaveholders wanted to shield from the minds of their slaves. Ironically, the same story the white Christians connected with in motivating themselves for separation from England was used by the slaves in motivating ...

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Who were these people? ... The general perception of the white slave traders and owners due to African men having a number of wives was that there could be no ties of family. ... With the power to heal or to make ill or they were both revered and feared by white and black alike. The whites feared these people because of their strong influence over the slaves and tried everything they could think of to abolish the "heathen" ritual punishing anyone they found practicing, however, the Obeah remained an influential figure in African slave life. ... During these years" black and white mixed, with b...

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White individuals did not need African Americans as their occupants they needed whites just as their inhabitants. No colored hairdressers might serve as a stylist to white young ladies or ladies in Georgia. ... The schools for white kids and the schools for negro youngsters might be led independently (Florida). ... Negroes, mexicans and other non-white races would get treated in an unexpected way. ... There was a school closer to the Brown's home, however it was just for white understudies. ...

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This "voice" will do many things, not the least of which is "demonstrate that people of African descent possessed the requisite degrees of reason and whit to create literature, that they were, indeed, full and equal members of the community of rational, sentient beings". ... Given the white audience, Douglass craftily presents the majority his story from the perspective of a white abolitionist. ... Listwell, a white man who will guide the reader through much of the story. In presenting the location and the atmosphere of an ordinary Sabbath day, Douglass takes an extra step in making a white...

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As a young boy in Eboe, Olaudah was exposed to slavery among his own people. ... On other occasions the people of Eboe were forced to battle in defense of their land against other provinces or districts. ... The white man's version of slavery would soon become a nightmare-like reality. ... "(232) The white man's greed and lack of humanity quickly turned slavery into a global commodity. ... Any belief in God was hypocritical, people obviously lived in absence of moral values, and humanity was a thing of the future. ...

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It makes white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched... Excessive power can often consume the very people in control while serving to increase the bonds of those it is inflicted upon. ... You deserve it all, and more too."" (9) This quote is from a passage in which a young slave girl is dying soon after giving birth to a child that is nearly white. ... The predominant impact of her sentiment being, that slaves should not be held and compared to the same standards as free people in their behavior, because they h...

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The world's census states that its population is over 319.000.000 people, 31% of which are "non-white people"; their president itself is black. ... They were discriminates in the battalions, and had a lower salary than white soldiers (González de la Aleja 81). ... In the southern states there was hostility towards black people. Groups of white people, as Ku Klux Klan, organized in order to beat or kill everybody that sympathised with negros, as happened with James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in 1964: The sheriff Cecil Price, member of the Ku Klux Klan, ar...

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All together the white population on Saint Domingue in 1789 totaled between 25,000 (Knight 2001, p. 229) and 40,000 (Wingfield & Parenton 1965, p.339) people. Grand blancs were the upper white class of the colony. ... The second group on Saint Domingue was the free people of color. ... In 1770 the free people of color numbered 7,000 but by 1789 it had reached 27,500 (Fick 1990, p. 19). ... If a mulatto were to strike a white for any reason the penalty was to have his hand cut off (Geggus 1982, p.20-21). ...

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People from England who migrated to America used many different methods to enslave black people and passed them down through the children. ... It was the rain of terror that kept black people in fear of their lives for so long. The invention of the gun back in the fifth-teenth century was the main reason that these people were able to go to another continent and enslave so many people. These people from Africa were mistreated very badly right from the start both mentally and physically. ... Sometimes one women cared for both white and black children. ...

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He made many people understand what was not clearly visible because of the white Americans who long before had rationalized slavery as no more than a disagreeable but inevitable necessity, best ignored. ... Douglass expresses how the religion of the south was just a front for covering up the horrendous punishments the white man forced upon the black man. ... To the common white person, blacks were a race inferior to whites not only in intelligence, but in moral and emotional development as well. ... But this seemed impossible considering the black man was less intelligent than the white man...

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"Black people, in short, learned to take the blows and to parry it as best they could. They found themselves shut out by white racism..."" ... Otherwise said, the blacks were punished by white racism and were forced to accept it, there by reinforcing the legitimacy of the racism in white, thus causing a cycling pattern. ... As said in the quote, the addition of slave resistance (no matter how little) to the cycling pattern explained previously causes an even more intensified result of white racism and misconception about the black slaves. ... Criticism in his work can only be found in that h...

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But what exactly would have made such a young African American man aspire to be as white as possible? ... This is the truly liberated artist who translates their beauty in the only way they know black people. ... Their people tried not to identify with their art and the white people outright ignored it. ... It almost seems that the general consensus was that black people don't possess analytical skill. ... People need to learn to understand that these African Americans do react and feel just like any other person. ...

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In 19th century America, nearly any white person was a racist. ... This shows that he indeed belonged with any other white man in 19th century society that was just how America functioned at the time. ... In his famous speech at Peoria, Illinois, he states: "But in ascertaining the number of the people, for this purpose five slaves are counted as being equal to three whites. The slaves do not vote; they are only counted and so used, as to swell the influence of the white people's voted there is not instance of exact equality and the disadvantage is against us the whole chapter throug...

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Hall begins with a discussion of the people who were originally sent to Louisiana to colonize. She discusses how criminals and the generally unwanted people in French pre-revolutionary society were sent to colonize this area. She gives numerous documents and accounts of how these people were deported to Louisiana instead of being put to death. ... As such the French government deported many people and sent soldiers there as a punishment for deserting. ... The African population so heavily outnumbered the white that to use any other for internal trade would be ridiculous. ...

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Had slavery not existed and the large influx of African peoples who brought their cultural and musical heritage with them, our music might sound more like German "oom-pah" songs." ... It emerged from under the great weight and strain of years of oppression and cruelty as a shining pearl and testament to the intelligence and creativity of this race of people." ... As the popularity of African influenced music in the African American community erupted, the up-beat rhythm and unique tune interested the younger white community. But in some cases "produced primarily for the black market, the songs ...

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This group of people were moved from different places, bought and sold, and were considered "property " during those years. ... Paul Revere showed only white individuals who have been wounded and among the dead. ... They stated their belief that government should represent the people and not a king. The individuals who signed the Declaration of Independence were not only white but they were also slave owners. ... As the ideals of freedoms and citizenship for colonies were formed, such ideals were considered mostly for the white men rather than blacks and women. ...

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