Slavery

who had not created an immunity to them. Furthermore, French and British wars against the Native Americans and amongst themselves broke out ending in a genocide through pox infected blankets. Over the years of the Europeans migration in the US, slavery was brought to America by the incoming of African slaves - many were sent to the Sugar Islands of the Caribbean. The African and African-Americans who were turned into slaves lived in awful conditions – whipped and starved, most of them never went

serious injustices such as apartheid and colonialism. How does black people consider white people ? How do white people consider black people? And why? A little bit of history in order to understand ... 2) History 1) Triangular trade The slavery of the black Africans by European , represent the official creation of a categorie of people racialement lower : the «Negros» and in the same time , the superior category the Whites. In fact eleven milllions Africans were deported to become slaves

discrimination”, by using this metaphor kings points out even though the Black people are free from the slavery , there are still discrimination and segregation against them. Just as the life of the black people is bound by the manacles of segregation and chains of discrimination, freedom is still limited in the American society. Kings used the term “manacles “to show that there is no freedom even if the slavery was abolished a hundred years earlier. When you have manacles and chains it means that your hands

judiciary appointed by the executives, with life-terms l) Laws set by the Congress took precedence over state law m) Each state had the same number of representatives (2) Concerning the problem of Slavery: * Northern states generally wanted to abolish slavery * Southern states did not want to free the slaves or allow them to vote * But Southern states wanted to count their slaves as part of their population when it was time to determine how many representatives they

years before the French revolution, when the King of France could send anyone who displeased him to the Bastille with a simple ‘lettre de cachet’. b) Its shortcomings But the main failure of the Constitution of 1787 was slavery, “it was stained by its original sin of slavery”. Its ideals only applied, at the time, to white men only, and black people, Indians, or women did not have these rights. It was “ultimately unfinished”. Indeed, the constitution was “the Great compromise” between the southern

F0869 1759 William Wilberforce, the abolitionist, is born in Hull. 1760 Slave rebellion in Jamaica led by Tacky. 1760 Thomas Clarkson, the abolitionist, is born. 1770s The abolitionist campaigner Granville Sharpe collects evidence showing that slavery is incompatible with English Law. 1772 The Somerset case in London. Chief Justice Lord Mansfield rules that enslaved people in England cannot be forced to return to the West Indies. 1772-73 John Stedman joins a military expedition to suppress a

segregation Man drinking at a water cooler reserved for "Colored," Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1939. Source: Russell Lee, July 1939, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC. After the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in America, racial discrimination became regulated by the Jim Crow laws, which mandated strict segregation of the races.  The end of Reconstruction produced a political and social climate of fear and intimidation for every black person in the South

The status of African Americans in the U.S.A has seen many twists in the story, Let me introduce you to one of the largest part of the U.S story. In the 1619 the slavery was introduced in America. It marks the beginning of many racial events. The Slavery shows us that the Black People were clearly consider inferior to Whites. In 1787 the American Government ratified a Constitution. This one says that Human beings were not equal. In their point of view a Black is three fifth of all other people

To what extent was Tom Robinson faith sealed the moment Mayelle Ewell accused him of rape ? In America slavery was present during more than 200 years. Everybody that had a bite of money had to have slaves. It was normal at the time, point of views were very different from today. Maycomb county Alabama, in the 1930’s. Slavery had just ended 70 years ago, so people were still extremely prejudiced against black people, except for certain rare cases that had the audacity to not be like the rest

which protect the fundamental rights of the citizens. (Free of speech, carry a weapon) New States only accepted to ratify the Constitution once the Bill of Rights was added. Moreover, the Constitution seems to accept slavery. Nothing was written against slavery in the Constitution. (Slavery was abolished in 1865 with the 13th amendment) This shortcoming would lead to a civil war. Advantages: It’s written in very general terms, easy-to-understand. It makes it a pliable document to which new interpretations