Women And Native Americans Face Problems

The African-American people have suffered great hardships since slavery. During the 15 and 19th century many Africans were taken and forced into slavery. Some slaves

What if everyday in America there was not an action someone could take because someone of an opposite race sexually assaulted or domestically abused that person? Often news outlets only focus on major even in cities or towns, but never the reservations. With the lack of awareness of the number of rapes and domestic abuse victims on reservations, at large society is saying America doesn’t care due to reservations having sovereignty. Even with new laws signed into place by President Obama to deal with the rape and abuse problems to Native American women, that come from non Native Americans, the problem with this is it’s a pilot only on three tribes (Culp-Ressler,1).It is said it will expand soon, but how soon? America is not known for being

Women in colonial America played revolutionary roles. They played roles that were always changing. “All men are created equal.” It’s the basis in which America was built, but what about the women? Without women, men wouldn’t have been nearly as successful. But what exactly did women do? Well, different races had different roles to play within their population(WiseGEEK).

Slavery originally started in Latin America and the West Indies by the French, Spanish, and Portuguese after the conquest, to replace the depopulated labor of the Indigenous people. Shortly after, slavery became a profitable enterprise for the capitalistic driven United States. Some of the principal laws and systems of slavery were the same in both regions, but others were later changed. It brought about many changes, with respect to African-Americans and black culture. Those changes had long lasting effects, not only on how blacks view and are viewed in society, but also on how the destruction of our culture influenced our current life-style today in United States and

Throughout history, African Americans both free and enslaved were not treated equally nor permitted with the same rights as white men. African Americans were enslaved and not allowed to vote or hold public office. Since the 15th century, African Americans have been treated less than human, some even experienced brutal punished for justifiable mistakes. The use of African American slave labor was an enormous contribution to agriculture and labor. It became a part of southern state’s economy within America. Additionally, African Americans were forced or born into slavery where they endured harsh working conditions with zero pay and often times were punished by their masters. Even slaves that became emancipated or paid for their freedom were also treated differently than whites. Notably, blacks did not have the same privileges as whites and were forced to carry a “freedom card” wherever they went. Failing to do so would lead to severe consequences, such as being forced back into slavery. Once African Americans were considered free, they faced additional discriminations such as not being able to vote or serve as a figure in public office. Due to this and additional factors, African Americans were almost entirely incapable of defending themselves against whites. Since the start of the 17th century, African Americans, free and enslaved were punished for their skin color and were considered the lowest scale by not being allowed to the same opportunities and rights and white men.

Imagine yourself looking at the world in fear and no understanding of hardships. Everyday,slaves had felt those feelings as if they were unwanted or were worthless. Since the time of slavery, slaves faced multiple challenges such as splitting families up for hard labor,having miniable food, and fighting against the eye of death. To begin,people had been forced to leave their families in Africa to become slaves.During the time period of the 1800’s, in order to have slaves,people from ether America, Europe, and many more would send out ships to capture the people in African.Once heading back they bored about 12.5 million Africans and only about 10 million survived. Most slaves were no able to handle the intense boat ride. Additionally, slaves

With all of these issues at play, some people believe that the federal and state governments should be more involved with the problems the native people face by giving Native Americans greater protection over their rights. After all, according to Chief Justice Marshall in 1831, the federal government has a special obligation to care for Native Americans. One way the government can assist Native Americans is by providing more funds to Native American communities such as in areas of healthcare and education.

African American slave families were faced with hardships that white families simply did not have to consider. Most notably, the African American slave family had to constantly deal with the fact that their family was subject to change. They could not reasonably plan for the future since they had no way of knowing how long they would be likely to remain on a particular property. Moreover, the family itself did not hold any autonomy with regard to maintaining the family.

When compared to other minorities and women, African Americans have gone through the most unjust and horrendous treatment above all and have made the most progress in the struggle for civil rights. "Most Southerners rationalized the exploitation, brutality, injustice, and degradation of slaves with the "old assumptions of Anglo-Saxon superiority and innate African inferiority, white supremacy, and Negro subordination." (pg.435) The most important struggle that African Americans faced was slavery. Slavery began in 1619, when colonists brought Black Africans to the new world to harvest the tobacco crops in Jamestown. Slavery granted economic prosperity to thousands of white families. Being born an African American meant a 99 percent chance of being a slave and having your life controlled unfairly from birth to death. "Slaves were part of their owner 's properties just like a house, the fields, and the furniture." (pg.435) Slaves were denied education and the deprivation of education strengthened the "concept of the superior/inferior relationship by making the slave more dependent on his master." (pg.436) Slavery grew rapidly because of the cross-Atlantic slave trading industry. Owning a slave was economically attractive to the North 's textile industries and South 's agricultural interests. Many farmers and plantation owners morally opposed slavery, however, "economic reality prevented the abolition of the system, opting instead to ban the exportation of new slaves into the

With the advancements in technology and the invention of the sailboat, exploration gave way to the “discovery” of America. Crop production grew and soon after colonists began importation and deportation of goods. Because production was so great, the demand for laborers was even greater. Although a form of slavery existed in Africa prior to the Atlantic Slave Trade, the trade gave way to the dehumanization of African-Americans. Enslaved Africans were stripped from their land, brought over to the New World, and then sold off like cattle led to the slaughter. Slavery lasted for almost a century, however the effects are still seen in the African American community today. Slavery started in the mind and then presented itself in the physical form. Slaves were made to believe they were less than human and that they needed someone to rule over them. Without the slave trade the New World would not have grown to the America it is

Slavery is a stain in the history of the United States that will always be particularly remembered for the cruelty it exhibited. Up until 1865 slaves were imported in shiploads and treated as if they were merely cattle. On the farms slaves were given no mercy and had to work long, arduous days for nothing. Additionally they were often subject to cruel overseers who would beat and whip them on a regular basis. As brutal and destructive as the institution of slavery was, slaves were not defenseless victims. Through their families, and religion, as well as more direct forms of resistance, Africans-Americans resisted the debilitating effects of slavery and created a vital culture supportive of human dignity.

First, lets me explain what kind of problem I found out from this chapter. Everything related begins at Native American people losing their motherland. The good soil land had been taken away replace by the sand area. They would not grow any crop or raise any animal. Without food, water, and good resources. Native American people force either moving out to the big city changing their culture or choose to stay in reservation surrender to this environment. Although, the Federal government subsidizes food while take away the natural nutrition feed them by supplement food the healthy level is affected. After two generation, they lost their hunting skill, fishing skill and their natural ability to farm their crop. Without food, the jobless family

Slavery, due to its overall violent nature, had lasting effects on African American’s. Enslaved African Americans faced tremendous turmoil internally and within society with all that they had to deal with. The most apparent and disastrous affects of slavery during the 18th century was the overall dissolution of society in regards to human rights, families, and the inability for slaves to voice an opinion of their own. Slavery brought forth major suffering. African American’s who were enslaved experienced many troubling and painful feelings and emotions. With slavery, came problems; physical, emotional, and traumatizing experiences. Slavery was corrupt and dehumanizing. Some of the leading factors that resulted in why slavery was so awful was the tension and conflict it caused in society, families were split up and sold off separately, and lastly, it led to extremely inappropriate and wrongful forced sexual relationships between slave masters and their slaves, specifically young girls and women.

A big problem to slaves were food and health, slaves were only fed if they had a nice owner or if they were on the verge of dying. Not being fed the daily three meals caused health problems and they would get sick faster and die faster. If slaves were dying then another problem creates because then the slave owners would have to pay for more slaves and slaves today would cost 40,000. You could be cruel and mean to your slaves but when you are

The Native Americans and the United States have not always seen eye to eye on things since the beginning. The approach of the people of the white civilization has brought extreme agony and torture to the Native Americans. This was as a result of race playing a humongous part in humanity during this time, for this reason the Native Americans were looked down on and poorly treated by the white population. This was a strenuous point in time for the American Indians to adapt to society since their culture, attitudes, values, and beliefs were slowly being abandoned and the federal government wanting them to assimilate to the white culture. Since then the Native Americans have struggled to persevere on reservation lands, deprived of support, and for the most part hopelessness. There are many social problems that contribute to the delinquency of Native-American youth on the reservation. The community dilemmas that contribute to the failure of the Native-Americans younger generation are poor academic achievement, alcoholism, domestic violence, mental health issues, and unemployment. These horrendous matters will hopefully disappear in the time and Native-Americans will become successful in today’s society.