Black Americans were the only racial or ethnic group brought to America against their will. Africans came to be captured and sent to the Western Hemisphere as slaves (Sowell 184). They were submitted to forced labor and had no human rights. They were the property of their masters, an object that could be bought, sold, given or mortgaged according to their masters will (Maameri 125).Colonial America depended on agriculture and the near- decimation of the native Indians by warfare and diseases created a labor shortage. In the English colonies, labor was initially provided by indentured servants ,poor whites or convicts. Enslavement of blacks started on a small scale in 1619 the year in which a shipment of slaves was brought and sold in Jamestown.
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President Abraham Lincoln led the charge into the Civil War, the prior aim of federal government was restoring the seceding states and preserving the Union, during the war the emancipation of the slaves became a second war aim necessary to defeat the confederacy, the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 declared that all slaves were to be made free, it reaffirmed the beliefs of the declaration of independence about equality (Kolchin 202). The Emancipation of slaves hit the Southern economy, undermined the ability of confederates to wage the war and the Federal army made use of slaves who were eager to strike the confederacy for freedom. The Civil War put an end to slavery, the American congress voted a constitutional amendment, 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery early in 1865. The ratification of the amendment occurred after the assassination of Lincoln (Slavery: Cause and Catalyst of the Civil War …show more content…
American music and American slang have been flavored from the music and speeches of Negroes. Two blacks have won the Nobel Prize in peace and one in economics. Despite these racial opportunities and successes, the post–civil rights period, must also be defined by a more threatening racial condition, capital deficiencies created by slavery and perpetuated by Jim Crow have continued throughout the entire post–civil rights period, long after the death of Jim Crow so changes were needed in human attitudes and in the underlying economic conditions (Sowell
President Abraham Lincoln led the charge into the Civil War, the prior aim of federal government was restoring the seceding states and preserving the Union, during the war the emancipation of the slaves became a second war aim necessary to defeat the confederacy, the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 declared that all slaves were to be made free, it reaffirmed the beliefs of the declaration of independence about equality (Kolchin 202). The Emancipation of slaves hit the Southern economy, undermined the ability of confederates to wage the war and the Federal army made use of slaves who were eager to strike the confederacy for freedom. The Civil War put an end to slavery, the American congress voted a constitutional amendment, 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery early in 1865. The ratification of the amendment occurred after the assassination of Lincoln (Slavery: Cause and Catalyst of the Civil War …show more content…
American music and American slang have been flavored from the music and speeches of Negroes. Two blacks have won the Nobel Prize in peace and one in economics. Despite these racial opportunities and successes, the post–civil rights period, must also be defined by a more threatening racial condition, capital deficiencies created by slavery and perpetuated by Jim Crow have continued throughout the entire post–civil rights period, long after the death of Jim Crow so changes were needed in human attitudes and in the underlying economic conditions (Sowell