Shadricka Thompson December 12, 2011 African American History I HIST 221 A To me the author has really emphasized no to give up on your dream. There were many sacrifices that African Americans have made it out poverty. Through all the negative statistics and discrimination black economic empowerment has continued to overcome and survive depression, recession, and recovered. African Americans were the most integral part of the economic history of our nation by creating economic growth and development in ways that were not acknowledge by white society. A few major points are: How Mr. Frank known as Free Frank a saltpeter minims and production operation owner bought his own freedom then bought sixteen other family members as well as founded the town of Philadelphia, Illinois in 1836.
This book detailed how he felt about the black African people he met their ways, private lives morals, and religion. Ibn Battuta lived quite a life and kept records about his travels. Battuta’s words were edited by a scribe by the name Ibn Juzayy who stated, Battuta was “one of the greatest travelers” of that age. All of Battuta’s stories could not be verified and it was known that maybe he stretched the truth at times. The most peculiar aspect about Ibn Battuta’s travel to me were that even though he went to almost fifty countries is that he was running into people he had met before in his life.
* While the Chesapeake Bay was struggling with money they came to a conclusion that the only way they would be on par with the economy is if they had Tobacco. * Unfortunately now since slaves were getting bought my many rich families, many slurs started to arise such as the n work and many harsh more. * The Carrabin was a main source for slaves which only the high end wealthy families bought and used to work on planation for Tobacco etc. The Web of Empire and the Atlantic Slave Trade Claim- Most large Europeans started to benefit with the economy due the large demand of slaves at the time. This only led to the downfall of small business since now they wouldn’t have much inventory and as many customers to sell their goods too.
African American women were treated even worse than men. Many of them were stuck in domestic service jobs with low pay due to their treatment as second class citizens. However, there was one major improvement in the south – the FEPC in 1941. This ended discrimination against blacks in the workplace so they had equal employment opportunities to whites. Treatment of African Americans as second class citizens was still bad regarding economics in the north, but not as severe as in the south.
There is only a handful written by actual slaves, rather than just stories passed on and written many years later by third parties. Marion Starkey painted a clear picture of what life was like in the struggle for African Americans to make America home. I hadn’t realized the rarity of this book when I found it in the library. This book has made me want to read the actual accounts of the people it includes. Marian Starkey has written several other books concerning slavery in America.
There were only known to be a handful of African’s to ever be in England and they were only there to learn the English language and return to Africa to translate for English traders. With this being the case, the whites had no idea of who these people really were. They were a strange and mysterious race and the English not only didn’t take time to find out what or who they were, but they flat out just didn’t want to. The English thought of the Africans as “demons”, “foul”, or “wicked”. They described them as being “black as coal”, and “a people of beastly living, without a god, law, or religion.” This is the start of when blacks first started to be looked down upon by the whites as an inferior race.
He is the chief at the firehouse and he knows a lot of information. When Beatty learns about Montag having a book, which is when the rising action really begins. Beatty is not trying to be an influence. He always pushes Montag to his limits and Montag always seems to get against whatever Beatty says. Beatty has a talk with Montag saying that books are not good and that nothing is good about them.
This is morally wrong as cargo is usually inanimate, unless it's the trading of animals. Humans are animate. These slaves were used because they were black, they were treated like this as the white men coudln't work for long in the heat as they'd develop skin cancer and other illnesses if they worked in the sun for too long. The AFricans were used to that sort of heat and as their skin is dark there is less damage to their skin. However, this isn't an excuse as to how they were treated, they were stripped naked, men were paired in two's and chained together.
They do this mainly to avoid shame; because they the importance of a black man’s existence. Now, as time progresses and after blacks have fought so hard for social positions in America, the black community is granted a month to celebrate their history; and the month of the year at that. Every year in the month of February, many of the members of the black community join in the celebration of history that have been hidden for many years and that is still not taught in many public schools nationwide. One would argue that black history is not relevant to African Americans nowadays, but is it their fault that they do not know their true history? A student at Spelman College, after taking the course, African Diaspora and the World, will know much more than any other black individual who is attending high school, especially those that are predominantly white.
The Arab-Islamic world was flourishing in the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, and in Spain. In the seventh century, Spain was the most advanced country in Europe under the Arab Muslim’s leadership. Most Arab countries have several universities. “al-Azhar University” in Egypt and “Zaytouna University” in Tunisia are two of the oldest universities in the world. Arabs have made major contribution to the world.