First Liberian Civil War

Slavery Reparations: A Call For Justice The supreme court of 1980 ordered the federal government to pay Native American Tribes $122 million dollars to compensate for the slaughter and illegal seizure of tribal lands in 1877; Shortly after, the congress of 1988 then consented to the payment of $1.2 billion dollars to Japanese-American citizens who had been held captive at the prison camps during WW2 (Costly, Andrew). African Americans haven’t been compensated for their enslavement until recently,…

The documents given to my colleagues and I are from two slavery abolitionists , one being Angelina Grimke Weld who was a woman that grew up surrounded by slavery. Watching the pain and suffering of the men and women around her she got a prime example of slavery and its harsh conditions. Angelina is tired of the north turning the other cheek when the issue of slavery is raised so she held a speech in Pennsylvania to raise concern. Along with William lloyd Garrison who was a prominent abolitionist…

1831: Year of Eclipse by Louis P. Masur questions the events that occurred during the year of 1831 in the United States and how they affected the country and put it on the path towards the Civil War. Masur addresses this question by focusing on four main subjects, which are coincidentally the four chapters of the book. These topics are Slavery and Abolition which discusses the issues regarding free blacks and the plans that were formed in order to abolish slavery, among other topics, Religion…

“Unfortunately, slavery is not only something of the past. When I first learned that there are now 21 million people enslaved today, I was astonished and terrified. Have we learned nothing from the past?” - Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave). We take responsibility for what we do, not for what others have caused. In the quote above, McQueen states how we have reflected something from the past into the present. The differences in the past and the present has been drastically changed throughout the…

proves her claim by referring to racial problems in the past, such as the War on Drugs and Civil Rights. The War on Drugs correlates to past problems. The first claim Alexander argues is, “The War on Drugs is the vehicle through which extraordinary numbers of black men are forced into the cage” (Alexander 185). She proves this claim in her book stating that white people aren’t as identified as blacks when it comes to the War on Drugs. Black men are more assumed to having, selling, or…

The United States of America was never perfect. In 1786, Daniel Shays, a farmer and a veteran of the revolutionary war that created the United States, led an armed rebellion to protest the poverty of the people due to the high taxes and economic depression. Shay’s rebellion was believed by some historians to be a wakeup call that demonstrated how weak the government was under the Articles of Confederation; and ultimately led to the creation of a new system that is still our constitution today by…

feelings of a civil war evident they later adopted a new tariff replacing the last one delaying the inevitable for a ten-year…

Americans was tested but not lost. The A.M.E church founded by Sir. Richard Allen played a pivotal role in keeping their spirits high. During this time Thaddeus Stevens “became a leader in the drive for equal rights for African Americans after the Civil War (Foner 363)”. By the year 1860 African-Americans could vote on the same issues as white in five New England…

Jim crow laws, fugitive slave act, the civil war, the 14th and 15th amendment and lastly the black codes. Now no one wants to ever go through this as child or as an adult, but there was a person that did and his name was Allen Allensworth. Through his struggle as a young child and later as an adult he would later find a town or better known as a community that African Americans could live in peacefully. Allen Allensworth was born in…

the African American community together to push for other initiatives as well: “The African-American Community of Beacon Hill] discovered the resolve…to force [integration of railroads and theaters] the legalization of interracial marriage…[and] the first formation of African American union regiments to fight for the end of slavery itself” (Kendrick XXI). Furthermore, the battle for legal integration culminated in 1855 when the Massachusetts Legislature abolished segregated…