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Jordan Guice US History I Jennifer Egas 18 February 2018 Strange New Land Book Review Wood, Peter H. Strange new land--Africans in Colonial America, 1526-1776 / Peter H. Wood. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Many years ago, a continental drift split North and South America from Eurasia and Africa. As they remained separated, new species of plants and animals developed and evolved on each continent. The Columbian Exchange was a period of physical exchanges between the Old and New worlds. The Old and the New worlds exchanged diseases, populations, crops, and animals. All of these exchanges were brought to the Americas after Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the Americas.
Before the American Civil War happened close to four million African-Americans were slaves. At the turn of the century the Naturalization Act of 1970 allowed only white men to vote. After the Civil War the thirteenth (1865), fourteenth (1868) and fifteenth (1870) amendments were passed, allowing African-American males to vote and have citizenship, which also led to ending slavery. Even after the ending of slavery, there were still some white men who tried to keep white supremacy alive thereby dehumanizing and alienating African-Americans from the mainstream of people. Even after African-Americans were given all their rights, there were still problems with racial segregation.
The Antebellum Period was a time when people started thinking about changing social classes. This all started after the War of 1812 and before the beginning of the Civil War. This happened in many countries, but in the United States this was looked at a couple of main groups of people. This was pointed to Native Americans, African Americans, women, and Irish immigrants.
Towards the close of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth century, European imperialist governments in their quest to expand their territories for various reasons aggressively scrambled and invaded the African continent. Initially, the gullible African societies, most of which were decentralized, welcomed the foreigners but after realizing the stakes some mounted resistance (Johnston,43). As expected, the more sophisticated imperialist governments prevailed in most of the colonies and subdued the natives. The effects of the foreign presence were monumental, and it would take more than half a century for these colonies to free themselves from the oppressive rule and become independent governments. Until the late 1800’s,
In 1608, the French established their first settlement in Quebec, found by Samuel de Champlain. French Catholics had no reason to leave France, and the Huguenots wished to migrate, but were excluded. Their colony’s population grew quite slow. French Jesuit Missionaries were the first to infiltrate the Native societies. The fur trade helped provide an opportunity for friendly relations.
The American Civil War ended in 1865, with defeat of the Southern States. Slavery as the root of the conflict between the North and the South was abolished in 1865 with passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. (Ransom, 1989) Despite the presidential efforts to deliver justice to blacks by passing the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Amendments, racial discrimination in the U.S. continued for several decades. Blacks struggled during Reconstruction period that brings different form of servitude known as the Sharecropping.
It is stated in the second paragraph of the United States Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal. However, during the Gilded Age, many different crowds of people were not being treated equally. The new immigrants traveling to America had to deal with the pain and sorrow from the multiple challenges that came with Ellis Island. After all of it was over, they ventured out into the country, but had to face overcrowded living quarters, long work days, dangerous jobs, poorly paid jobs, and the threat of disease. During the same time, African Americans had a lot of limits on their rights; including, limited social rights, limited political rights, and limited economic rights.
In the 1800’s, all women were being controlled under the supervision of their husbands, females did not have an voice until the 1890’s. Women throughout the 1800’s were expected to stay home moms to care for their children's. As Susan B. Anthony teaches us that women had the right to have an education of their own and gain a profession of their very own when she says the following quote “I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand” - (Susan B Anthony). I agree with Susan B Anthony, I believe that women should have the courage to be able to learn many things and not letting men encouraging them failure. Some of the issues that women had to face during
During the revolutionary era, 1750-1800, tensions were at an all-time high between the colonists and Great Britain. Within the thirteen colonies, the tensions between white and black Americans had been present for many years. Throughout the revolutionary era, African Americans faced many hardships, including: abuse on the plantations, fighting in the war, and attempting to gain freedom. Slave owners often abused their slaves, especially when they tried to run away.
Common experiences the united the African diaspora were that American Indians and African Americans were kind of the outcast of society, they were considered out of the main society. The continent of Africa was exotic and unknown to most Westerners, but the exposition also had exhibits showing less developed life in Africa and Asia. To "modern" Westerners, African society was both ancient and strange. Americans enjoyed learning about these differences, but Africa was portrayed as lagging the Western way of living. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, African Americans began to realize that they were part of an African diaspora, a people scattered by history to different parts of the world.
I am an American. However, because I am not of the white hegemony in society, I am primarily identified by two very necessary adjectives as either Black or African before defining my Americanism. This begs the question: when did race, the black race particularly, and injustice become so synonymous? I sit here wondering about each race and ethnicity of persons that are gathering his or her thoughts as well about the question that has been presented before us to attempt. Now at the age of thirty a Black, African American, how can I pluck out just one incident that has directly or indirectly affected me?
Before the Atlantic slave trade, there existed the Islamic slave trade in Africa. The majority of the merchants of Islamic religion and captured slaves which they then sold in ports surrounding the Indian Ocean and Arabia. After all this new connections between Europe and the Americas were founded expanding the slave trade to new regions of the world. Africans started to enslave their own people to sell at ports with foreigners that came from Europe and the Americas. In Africa Political leaders participated in the capture of slaves which led to civil wars and fights with in the countries.
The culture I 've chosen to explore for this assignment is the African American culture. This culture has many many struggles that have been faced for as long as anyone can remember, I am specifically referring to the days when slaves were considered the norm. A good event I got recommended to go to from a good friend of mine was the Slaves of the State event. This event was so much more informing than I thought it would be and to be honest, it was something I needed to go to because I learned so much from it. This event was presented by Dennis Childs, who is an Associate Professor of African American literature at the University of California in San Diego.
115 Watson) Europeans turned to Africa as the source of enslaved laborers because they solved many of the issues they had come into after conquering the new land after exasperating the use of Natives. The Colonist also attempted using white labores such as British labores to solve some of their issues. Colonist enslaved these laborers under contract. Many of these laborers came willingly to the Americas, completed their work and created a new life as land owners in the Americas. “About 40 percent of the roughly 300,000 European immigrants were bound servants of some kind, including some 50,000 British convicts.”
