Africans were first brought to the British colonies in 1619 to Jamestown, Virginia after they were kidnapped by the Portuguese and brought by an English Privateer ship. Now, over 400 years later, African Americans are still needing to fight for their rights through the Antebellum period, Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration, the Civil Rights movement, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Although there are constant civil and human rights advancements made every day, African Americans still face oppression with continual effects from chattel slavery, police brutality, and modern-day slavery. Because though we are leaps and bounds from where we started, there are still downfalls of a system made to benefit the oppressor,
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Joy DeGruy is an author, academic, and researcher who wrote Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing: The Study Guide. Dr. DeGruy discusses in the chapter “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” that African Americans still feel the trauma done to them by slave masters because of parenting. That because mothers wanted the least amount of suffering, they wanted them to survive, and that, “. for the most part, parenting is part of a myriad of skills passed down generation to generation. What do you think gets passed down through generations if what was experienced were lifetimes of abuse at the hands of slave masters and other authorities?... What do you think the result would be if the primary skills that mothers teach their children are those associated with adapting to a lifetime of torture?” (DeGruy 102 & 103) This quote is important because slavery didn’t stop after the civil war, oppression and brutalization of African Americans has never truly stopped. So, mothers have had to make sure that their children will survive through these centuries of learned parenting tactics. They needed to adapt to modern white supremacy so that their children could still remain, adapt, and …show more content…
enslaved persons were considered property up until their liberation, Southern states sought to preserve white supremacy by reintegrating freedmen into forced labor through criminalization and incarceration. .depriving incarcerated individuals of constitutional protection from forced labor as punishment for their crimes.” (Hammad 66) Prison labor is often an overlooked and untalked about part of oppression because police brutality is often at the forefront of a person’s mind when thinking about the criminalization of African Americans. Black people had hoped for freedom of their minds, bodies, and souls, but the new wave of oppression would affect them well beyond their generation. This quote highlights that the prison system was considered a better system than slave trading because of lower prices, black people were no longer personal property, and an increase in white supremacy paved the way for a new, more torturous way of life for African
Joy DeGruy is an author, academic, and researcher who wrote Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing: The Study Guide. Dr. DeGruy discusses in the chapter “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” that African Americans still feel the trauma done to them by slave masters because of parenting. That because mothers wanted the least amount of suffering, they wanted them to survive, and that, “. for the most part, parenting is part of a myriad of skills passed down generation to generation. What do you think gets passed down through generations if what was experienced were lifetimes of abuse at the hands of slave masters and other authorities?... What do you think the result would be if the primary skills that mothers teach their children are those associated with adapting to a lifetime of torture?” (DeGruy 102 & 103) This quote is important because slavery didn’t stop after the civil war, oppression and brutalization of African Americans has never truly stopped. So, mothers have had to make sure that their children will survive through these centuries of learned parenting tactics. They needed to adapt to modern white supremacy so that their children could still remain, adapt, and …show more content…
enslaved persons were considered property up until their liberation, Southern states sought to preserve white supremacy by reintegrating freedmen into forced labor through criminalization and incarceration. .depriving incarcerated individuals of constitutional protection from forced labor as punishment for their crimes.” (Hammad 66) Prison labor is often an overlooked and untalked about part of oppression because police brutality is often at the forefront of a person’s mind when thinking about the criminalization of African Americans. Black people had hoped for freedom of their minds, bodies, and souls, but the new wave of oppression would affect them well beyond their generation. This quote highlights that the prison system was considered a better system than slave trading because of lower prices, black people were no longer personal property, and an increase in white supremacy paved the way for a new, more torturous way of life for African