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    Beginning around 1500, Europeans started trading slaves. The slaves were for labor purposes. Like farming and working for a master. The slaves made the population percentage go up. Slaves were from Africa and traders would trade their items for slaves and then ship them to the new world. They were put on ships under the decks, sometimes they wouldn’t see sunlight for weeks. Sometimes they were beaten and wiped by the merchants. And when they got to the new world they would get off the ships and plantation

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    Slave trade represented a domestic institution in the United States and was mainly regulated by the local government.Moreover, the slave possessorslead the nations’ national government. Abolitionism refers to a movement coined in the 18th and 19th centuries that attempted to end the enslavement of the African Americans. The movement was particularly focused on stopping the Atlantic slave trade conductedin the Atlantic Ocean between the Africans, Europeans, and the Americans.Abolitionism had begunback

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    Music in the slave cultural was very essential to the slaves and their everyday survival during the times of slavery. The music created by Africans during slavery laid the foundation for all styles of African American music and culture as we know today in society. There are a variety of types of slave genres such as religious songs, work songs, and recreational songs. Each genre had its own types of functions, characteristics, and expressions that slaves wanted to express through music but they all

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    Beliefs Influenced the Black American Slave Narrative: “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” Compared. Throughout the abolition movement, both men and women slaves were trying to escape from slavery, and find their way to freedom in the North. Many of wrote their stories down. Some with the aid of ghost writers, and often under pseudonyms to protect their safety. These slave narratives spoke of the sufferings of the slave experience in America (Campbell

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    began to publish ‘The Liberator’ one of the most important tool of the anti-slavery movement. Two year later in 1833, The American Anti-Slavery Society. This part was the most important piece in the denouncement and public detestation toward slavery in the North throughout the mid 1800s. Abolitionist began to build antislavery churches, created school for African American, help slaves to escape to the North, and fought for freedman rights.( ) Long before “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was published

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    This story is about an African American female slave, Harriet Jacobs, writing about her trials and tribulations that her life in bondage has brought to her. The letter commences with her describing her type of work which is taking care of the master’s children. The story makes a 180 when she addresses the fact that she turned fifteen and the master starts to sexually pursue her. She describes the different ways he tries to seduce her. Furthermore, she tries to avoid him as long as she physically

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    Once slaves have been shipped to the America colonies, their population started to grow rapidly. Some slaves worked on plantations while others worked as skilled or unskilled labor force in the industry. Later on, these slaves were promised freedom. To gain this freedom they had to join the fight for the king. During this war (or fight), some have gained their freedom. Those who did not go, use this event onto their advantage to escape from their masters. Those who went to war and did not get their

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    owners at least, of all the colonies in the Caribbean. In 1789, whites numbered 32,000; mulattoes and free blacks, 28,000; and dark slaves, an expected 452,000. The most reduced class of society was oppressed blacks, who dwarfed whites and free non-white individuals by an edge of ten to one. The slave populace on the island totaled portion of the one million slaves in the Caribbean by 1789. 66% were African-conceived, and they had a tendency to be less tame than those conceived in the Americas. The

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    As the Native American population had been decimated by genocide and war, England looked to African slaves to provide them with the necessary labor to harvest tobacco. Although African slaves had the same status as that of an indentured servant, African slaves began to become more and more restricted, losing all human and civil rights. These restrictions were placed on African slaves to protect the rights of the indentured Englishmen, and developed a social/political system based of segregation and

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    The transatlantic slave trade did negatively impact the lives of 11 million of African individuals. Millions of these individuals were captured and transported to the “new world”, between the mid-1500s and late 1800s.The death toll, economic and environmental destruction due to wars and slave protests were immensely high. The old and very young were often left to starve or killed. Dehumanisation due to the slave trade was lead by ill usage and mistreatment leaving many African individuals feeling

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