Effects Of Slavery On African American Culture

In the 1700 Africans made up most of South Carolina population. The African gave labor on sugar and rice plantation. This is important because it proved that the locked up Africans was a more tightly controlled labor force than the white written contracted servants whom they slowly replaced. In 1739 a slave known as the Stono Rebellion happened in a low county of South Carolina. Many blacks along the Stono River tried to march to Spanish Florida. The group of armed people militia was called in to put down the

The many ways that southern men showed respect to each other often had a big effect on slaves, including Douglass. Southern men loved giving gifts to each other, and were deeply connected with the economy of the south and its trade. Gift exchanges were popular, and “Gift exchanges flourished because they were so intimately connected to the values and behaviors associated with the language of honor and slavery.” This did not stop there, they often traded slaves and bought them: “They bought and sold slaves at prices that reflected the slave’s potential productivity.” This is when slaves would be separated from their families and sold to new masters. Douglass went through many owners, as he was sold and moved around frequently.

Epictetus, the great Greek philosopher once said, “only the educated are free.” Epictetus was born a slave in Greece, and gained his freedom as he acquired knowledge. To those who are oppressed by the chains of slavery, education is a rarity. To oppressors, keeping slaves ignorant is ideal. African-American social reformer, Frederick Douglass, experienced the bondage of slavery and the influence education held in regards to gaining his freedom. Education was a major force for social change with regard to to slavery and African-American rights.

During the war, some slave owners ran businesses as well as owning plantations. In addition, African-Americans mostly worked in the fields plowing, weeding, planting, taking care of the tobacco, corn, cotton, sugar cane, tomatoes, and other vegetables. (Appendix 13). The slaves did the majority of work in the households they were assigned. When the slaves were assigned to a home that had less than five people, they were treated like family. When they were placed in a household with hundreds of slaves, they were treated more strictly with a great deal of discipline. 3 However, being an African-American during this time was rough. Slaves were not allowed to read and write as their white slave-owners thought they would pass messages along with slaves on other plantations and start a revolt.

Slavery began in 1619 when a Dutch ship brought 20 African Americans ashore to Jamestown, Virginia. However, they were not slaves, they were indentured servants. These first 20 African Americans were not slaves because they made a deal with their “master” whether it be for

Most African American thinks slavery is still causing a big issue on their society, Such as their music, their art and their own identity. Most African American still feels like they are being lied to about their past ancestor and culture, which make them feels very confused about the question of their real heritage. One of the impact the slavery had on the African American was that it brought a lot of sadness to the individual and sometimes that person ends up hating his or her self, not because of their skin color but because they feels like they are the only race who cannot find their true DNA. This destruction of slavery started from previous culture and it continued through generation, their inability to communicate as slaves, and the impact of slavery after emancipation all negatively affected African-American Culture. Kennedy, David (2002) explain, through slavery, Africans completely lost their heritage and previous culture. They were separated from their families, and cultural items such as their music which use to give them strength when their needed it. They also used their music to stay bonded each other; which were also taken away from them during slavery. Another issue the slavery left on the African American society is the lost their own sense of identity. Their true identify were totally ignored, and their new master or the person who raised them, their usually try to make them become a new human being without any consideration who they use to be

Depopulation was another negative impact that slavery had on Arica. This affected the African culture because the people who were stolen may have fulfilled many societal roles in the community. Africa lost many young strong people who could have been potential traders, philosophers, and skilled laborers. This led to an economic and cultural depletion to the regions. This also slowed the growth of existing populations and halted the development of nations. The younger, stronger people were the highly chosen ones to be taken for enslavement. The opportunities they may have had to raise children of their own within their own culture damaged cultural perpetuation. The trauma of losing young family members, people removed from the social frameworks

The enslavement of Africans in the Americas was such a gruesome time in history that we often generalize it into one event not being careful to look closely at the effects it had on the African people: During the course of those 400 years slavery as we knew it single handily shaped the early African American. Starting with the export of the first wave of African Slaves the impact of this would profoundly affect descendants hundreds of years later. Europeans who decided to enslave African people thought only of what monetary value they would be as they were their property who didn't deserve the decency of being anything more. The enslavement destroyed life as they knew it in their native Mother Africa. There they thrived with resources they

Through out this chapter we discover that the Europeans tend to take things that do not belong to them and also like to take credit for numerous things as well. We also learn that they like to kidnap others to do their hard labor while that stand back and making a living off of others hard labor. During this process I do believe it was the start of slavery for the African Americans. For the Europeans it meant the freedom to treat people any kind of way rather than treating someone like another human being.

Throughout the American history, everything influenced us to be different and change the way we live now. Two events in which changed and impacted the American History, culture, and life is slavery in the South and the battle of Lexington and Concord. Slavery in the South has made a huge impact not only the American History, but our lives as well. Slavery started in 1619 in Jamestown, Virginia. They were used to attend tobacco.

Hi James, indeed slavery devastated the African American population. The other day I spoke with a friend the other day, and interacted in a discussion regarding the slave trade in Europe. The friend I spoke with shared the slave trade wiped out the African American’s land. The African American population has never actually recovers from the slave trade experience. Perhaps this is the cause of poverty, disease, and no industrialization. Thus I have an African friend who shared with me that she speaks French. Do you believe African American speaks French as a result of the African slave trade? Do you believe that African countries will ever recover? Is there anything they can do to improve their land aftermath. Therefore, I know a few Africans

African American veneration of elders did not begin in the new world but was transported by slave ships from Africa during the Middle Passage. Despite the many Africans who chose to acclimate to slavery to survive in the new world, there were many who held tight to their beliefs and traditions including ancestor worship. The values that have been passed down from generation to generation have focused on family, along with the emphasis on both children and elders in the African American community (Billingsley, 1992). From the onset of slavery in the United States, informal caregiving included fictive kin and has played a crucial role in the African American community as a response to racism, according to Sudarkasa (1996). During slavery in the

America just like other nation has had its dark times. America has gone through a dreadful past. It once decided to own people as property and deprive them of their human equality and rights that were basic to life. America deprived African Americans of their liberties and enslaved them. Slavery played a huge role in the economy. Slavery did provide the means for whites to build wealth, income, and status while African Americans have continued to struggle. The oppression and segregation and the lack of rights made it impossible for African Americans to have any political and economic power to change their position. African Americans were basically deprived of their rights to vote and use the power of the government in their own favor to better their living standards. However reparation is not needed. Many may argue that reparation is what African Americans need to better themself now in the current economy states Robert L. Allen, yet it is impossible to establish who 's a descendant? The “Economist” argues that their laws in play that deny and prohibit reparations from corporations and companies. Ask yourself how can we put a price tag on something that happened nearly two and a half centuries ago? In what form would this payment be? How will the central government handle this? How will the economy handle such a large debt? Why should American taxpayers, who never owned slaves, pay for the sins of their ancestors? It is impossible to forecast such a large change in the

115 years ago, African Americans fought against the most oppressive and cruel system of chattel slavery. Their fight was executed by slaves and white abolitionists. As a result, 13th amendment abolished slavery in 1865, and the struggle succeeded. After the abolishment of slavery, life was a world filled with happiness and hope.The brutalities and indignities of slave life, the whippings and sexual assaults, the selling and forcible displacement of family members, the denial of education, wages, legal marriage, homeownership were gone. Free and enslaved African Americans, abolitionists, and everyone else who helped with this achievement celebrated their newfound freedom and win. However life in the years after slavery proved to be unbearable as well.

Imagine being forced to work for people who have bought you, and not being treated equally due to your race. Well this act occurred during the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth century. This was known as slavery. African Americans were sold to Caucasians, where their freedom would be taken away from them. It was a consistent struggle to fight through the discrimination, that was occurring. African Americans who were willing to risk their lives had the ability to have freedom. However, it was a long crucial journey for people on the underground railroad. Even so, freedom wasn’t always guaranteed. Caucasians did awful things to African Americans, which will never be forgotten. The Pledge of Allegiance says “ … one nation, indivisible…” however, at one point we were not a nation. We were divided. To this day and in one hundred years we will always have that division, based on the act of slavery.