African-Americans During The Jim Crow Era

Nigger. Mulatto. Blackface. Mammy. Zoo Ape. Brute. All of these are the very offensive terms used to reference African-Americans during the Jim Crow era. These names demonstrated how hard life was for African-Americans in the South during Jim Crow. To be regarded as someone you’re not and to be made fun of I believe is one of the most hurtful things someone can do to another human being. Internally that is. During Jim Crow much worse things happened to African-Americans. Blacks endured unspeakable acts carried out by racist whites in the South. Throughout this essay we will explore what life was like growing up in the South as an African-American during the Jim Crow era and what it meant to be Black during this time. African-Americans were

The first colony to ever have slaves was in Jamestown. Virginia. Slaves were brought to the United States from Africa to aid in the development of agriculture. As the United States developed, slaves were moved South to work on fields and plantations. Slaves were used to pick crops such as cotton, tobacco, rice, and sugarcane. A lot of slaves during the voyage to the America’s committed suicide as opposed to being a slave for the rest of their lives. The majority of the slaves were whipped on a regular basis with leather straps that were a few feet long. When slaves weren’t cooperative of the plantation owner’s rules, they were punished. Slaves were punished for simply moving too slow or not being disobedient in the slave master’s eyes. Most slaves were beaten ruthlessly, starved, and sometimes were killed in an instant. Now what does slavery have to do with Jim Crow you might ask? Slavery was the start of what would later be referred to as the Jim Crow

Blacks did everything in their power to avoid interaction with the Ku Klux Klan at all costs but sometimes this was inevitable. The Ku Klux Klan was responsible for almost all of the lynchings carried out on blacks during the Jim Crow era and afterwards. The Ku Klux Klan believed in the superiority of the white race and that blacks had no place in their world. They were so strong about their beliefs that they would torture, maim, hang, burn, and beat blacks inhumanely. The Ku Klux Klan created a fear within all African Americans across the