Seminar Questions On ' A Thousand Miles For Freedom '

The story Freedom Walkers talks about how racism was bad back then and how African Americans were treated poorly i feel like why would someone treat somebody bad just because of the color or nationality it’s rude how people talk about you just because that’s how you look. Also in the story it talked about how African Americans had to be in the back and whites in the front now to me that is cruel and anybody should sit where they wanna sit not where someone else wanted them to sit. In the story it stated that black people had to take a test but whites didn’t and even if the blacks were so smart and intelligent it didn’t matter they didn’t pass because the white people rigged the test so that they wouldn’t pass if you have the ability to be

Michelle Alexander begins chapter one with what amounts to a critical race summary of how African American were put into slavery by the political elites that made a separation of black and lower class whites after the Bacon Rebellion. After the Bacon rebellion plantation owners decided to ship in slaves from Africa instead of slaves or indentured servants from Europe because they thought that the African slaves would be less likely to form an alliance with the poor whites and the white indentured servants. She

And in the cases of Alabama, there were at least 100,000 African American men between the 1890s and the 1930s were leased or sold by the state of Alabama to coal mines, iron ore mines, sawmills, timber harvesting camps, cotton plantations, turpentine stills, all across the state. And so at least 200,000 African Americans, just in Alabama, were forced into the system, just in the most informal ways. And there are very well documented records of thousands of Black men who died under these circumstances during that period of time. Stories of men like Jonathan Davis, who in the fall of 1901, left his cotton field trying to reach the home of his wife's parents, where she was being cared for and would soon die of an illness. He was trying to reach her before she died. And on his way to the town, which was 15 or 20 miles away where she was being taken care of, he was accosted on the road by a constable, and essentially is kidnapped from the roadway and sold to a white farmer a few days later for $45. This is something that is named in the book to dozens of people that happened to. It's clear some version of that sort of kidnapping happened to hundreds and hundreds of other African Americans. And again, all of that is just in Alabama, and there were versions of this going on in all of the

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The slave narratives also gave Northerners a glimpse into the life of slave communities: the love between family members, the respect for elders, the bonds between friends. They described an enduring, truly African American culture, which was expressed through music, folktales, and religion. Then, as now, the narratives of ex-slaves provided the world with the closest look at the lives of enslaved African American men, women and children. (in incheiere)

A group of people risked their life to obtain equality for African Americans in the south. The Freedom Riders were a group of around 13 people. Most of them were African Americans but there were always a few white skinned people in the group as well. There was no set leader for the Freedom Riders. The Freedom Riders rode interstate buses into the Southern United States. The south was referred to as the most segregated part of the U.S. The main goal of the Freedom Riders was to desegregate and become “separate but equal.” They had also set out to defy the Jim Crow Laws. The Freedom Riders had a little bit of help from two court cases: Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia. These court cases ruled that it was

The connection to real world events regarding slavery is necessary for effective to craft an

Following, on May 4, 1961, a mixed group of 13 African Americans and white civil rights activist led the Freedom Rides (Freedom Rides?). Similar, to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Freedom Rides traveled to various cities in the south to protest against segregation of the bus terminals. History.com staff concurs “the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals.” The purpose of the freedom riders was to openly disobey the Jim Crow laws in the south in a nonviolent fashion. This was a dangerous journey, many of these people were beaten, arrested, and even the buses were destroyed. Yet, they persevered (“Freedom Riders: The Nashville Connection”). History.com staff, adds “The Freedom Riders, were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a U.S. civil rights group, they departed from Washington D.C., and attempted to integrate facilities at bus terminals along the way in the Deep South.” African Americans would try to use the “whites only” bathrooms and counters, which attracted attention and violence (Freedom Rides). According to the history.com staff due to the efforts of the Freedom Rides, “in September 1961, the interstate Commerce Commission issued regulations prohibiting segregation in bus and train nationwide.” The

A member of Congress argues on behalf of free white labor as a reposition for all of the black slaves having whites now work on the farms for they are not much different than each other (Doc. H). Many didn’t believe this though thinking that the best solution to the issue of increasing free people of color in the population is separation of the races (Doc. D). They had been separated for many years now though so this was an invalid reason for trying to keep slavery in the Americas. This picture encourages free black people in Boston to avoid police officers who may have been ordered to catch escaped former slaves and return them to slavery (Doc. I). It makes for a spread of the idea of slavery because it is trying to get any free blacks arrested and put back into slavery, even though they were free. If these freeman were white then no one would be trying to do this. Books such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin started being sold to help promote this impression (Doc.

However in the novel, The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead, freedom is just a dream every African American character desires. Whether enslaved or free they must navigate the impossible choice between slavery or racism. The stigma of colored people create this idea that Ridgeway believes "If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now." (Whitehead) Similarly, any white person who feels sympathy for the enslaved is confronted with the fact that if they choose to assist enslaved people, they will likely be killed along with their families.

The Antebellum period saw a drastic increase in the phenomenon of runaway slaves proportional to the increase in slavery at the time. To accommodate slaves, the Underground Railroad and several committees dedicated to the aid of fugitive slaves were developed. Free blacks and whites collaborated with the intent of assisting slaves in their journey to the north and in maintaining their freedom while living in northern states. Abolitionist societies also worked to document the experiences of runaway slaves and expose to the public the atrocities and injustices of slavery with the expectation that this would provoke a change in public opinion and subsequently laws. Like many who recorded the slave narratives, the author of “The Escape of William and Ellen Craft”, Nina Moor Tiffany, intended to accurately portray the experience of fugitive slaves in a way that was sympathetic to the slave. Although little is known about the author, the intent of the source can be extrapolated from where it was created, when it was written, and how it was published. “The Escape of William and Ellen Craft” was published in an 1890 issue of The New England Magazine, a monthly literary magazine published in Boston. During the time period in which it was published, the north especially Boston contained a public sentiment against slavery. Instead the North was in favor of an industrial economy based on wage labor. Knowing the historical context of the article as it coincides with the sympathetic

In the South, the slaves were treated poorly. The free slaves were discriminated against because of their skin color. At the time, many Blacks became free because of the reduced plantation profits in the late 1700s. Regardless of their freedom, they were still working for white employers and had many restrictions. They were limited through freedom of movement, economics options, and protection by the law. The book gives the example of Ester Fells who was beaten by her White neighbor because she was ‘disturbing his peace’. The police, in addition, whipped Fells more for “being insolent to a white person”. However, free Blacks boys could become apprentices and eventually make independent living.

As stated before, it is based or should one say inspired by the life of the slave Margaret Garner, who was an African American slave . She attempts to escape in 1856 Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio, which was a free state. A mob of slave owners, planters and overseers arrived to repossess her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue

In “The Life and Escape”, William Wells Brown tells his story of being a slave as a young child and his escape out of slavery as he was older. He was a slave alongside his mother and he had witnessed her going through struggles, but could never do anything about it to help her. He came to realize that all he could do was sit back.

The African-American authors of this time period wrote stories describing life during and after slavery. Real life issues that these authors lived through and experienced through the world around them. The excerpts that we read of Booker T. Washington’s “Up From Slavery,” told a compelling tale of his life of being born into