Slavery has influenced America’s history greatly and even in modern times we see the impacts of slavery in our society. My paper will talk about the enslavement of Western Africans and the impact that the slave trade had on the colonization and international trade of early America. I will be do this by summarizing information from two of our text books, African Americans: A Concise History, Chapters 3-9, and Let Nobody Turn Us Around, Sec. 1 Doc. 1, 3, 5-15.
Many know that America was originally inhabited by the native Indians, or as Americans Indians. As the British colonized countries around the world, including the coast of North America, the American Indians had a significant influence on how the British developed the land and survived new strange conditions of North America. In the year 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived in North America, and rapidly afterwards the Spanish colonized and build a colonial empire in the Americas. The Indians and African American …show more content…
These children were referred to as Creole and in some cases would work under the slave masters controlling the slave populations. Creole were considered to be black from the slave masters, but the black community did not see them as black. In many cases this separation of the Creoles led to a loss of their black culture and heritage (Hines, 62). The vile treatment of the slaves led to many slaves and whites which would try to revolt against the slave trades and customs. One of the most famous revolts against slavery was organized by Nat Turner in (1800-1831). In 1831 Nat Turner led about sixty-eighty instigated a revolt which killed over sixty whites. This revolt was crushed within forty hours and Nat Turner was tried and hung. Nat Turner’s revolt is just one example of African Americans and whites try to achieve freedom and fight racism (Marable, page
Many know that America was originally inhabited by the native Indians, or as Americans Indians. As the British colonized countries around the world, including the coast of North America, the American Indians had a significant influence on how the British developed the land and survived new strange conditions of North America. In the year 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived in North America, and rapidly afterwards the Spanish colonized and build a colonial empire in the Americas. The Indians and African American …show more content…
These children were referred to as Creole and in some cases would work under the slave masters controlling the slave populations. Creole were considered to be black from the slave masters, but the black community did not see them as black. In many cases this separation of the Creoles led to a loss of their black culture and heritage (Hines, 62). The vile treatment of the slaves led to many slaves and whites which would try to revolt against the slave trades and customs. One of the most famous revolts against slavery was organized by Nat Turner in (1800-1831). In 1831 Nat Turner led about sixty-eighty instigated a revolt which killed over sixty whites. This revolt was crushed within forty hours and Nat Turner was tried and hung. Nat Turner’s revolt is just one example of African Americans and whites try to achieve freedom and fight racism (Marable, page