The blacks were treated in an inhumane style, receiving violent beating and extreme manual labour for many hours of the day, minimum amounts of food and poor living conditions. In 1861, the war against Slavery in America began. After 4 years of fighting between the Northern and Southern States of America that left of 600,000 dead, the Northern states had defeated the Southern states that had been fighting for slavery and their own secession. After becoming victorious, the Northern states and the President declared slavery to be abolished in America. However, even after its abolishment, blacks were still kept in slavery and were treated poorly and unequal to other, white Americans.
All humans, no matter which skin color, have been enslaved one time or another in their history. People have been enslaved because of what other human beings believe what is good enough or not. These people have suffered for many years just because of skin color and basically just their appearance on the outside. In the autobiographies by Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano, “My Bondage and My Freedom,” and “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,” Both writers vividly present to the reader the devastation and humiliation of slavery. Douglass and Equiano were both Africans and slaves; however, they lived very different lives.
Martin Luther King is a African American civil rights activist that uses numerous techniques of peaceful protest to imrove the human rights of African americans. In 1954, he became pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where Rosa Parks was famously arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus. After Parks' arrest, King came to national prominence in the US. He was a leading figure in organising the boycott by African Americans of buses in Montgomery. Tutelage from Bayard Rustin, a prominent civil rights campaigner, helped King to commit to a principle of non-violent action heavily influenced by Mahatma Gandhi's success in opposing the British in India.
Another major accomplishment of Martin Luther was the institution of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an American civil rights organisation in 1957. The organisation aimed at supporting the philosophy of non-violence. It was led by King as the President along with Ralph Abernathy and other activists. As a believer of the Gandhi principles of non-violence, he enforced the non-violent techniques in the protests organised by SCLC. King also fought for the civil rights of blacks, like, right to vote, labor rights, etc.
It could be coincidental that all prospective slave traders flock towards Africa to fill their demand for laborers or that they believed they were superior enough to take those people and force them into a different life. This resulted in the unfortunate incident of many Africans becoming unwilling participants in the institution of slavery. One of the largest practices of slavery was that of Muslim societies in the Arab slave trade. More than 10 million Africans were taken and traded as a part of the Arab slave trade. This helps to assume that the target of enslaving people fell heavily in the people of the African race.
A lot of people moved to colonial America. They moved to colonial America either because the were forced to, or protested there king. Slaves were forced to move to colonial America to do labor work for Americans. The English, who became the Americans moved there because they were sick of there King’s laws and religious requirements. African slaves were forced to move to colonial America.
The March on Washington was about a large rally of civil and economic rights for African Americans. This event took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic speech I Have a Dream advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial during the march. This march was helled by a group of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations, under the theme "jobs, and freedom." The march had about 200,000 police to over 300,000 leaders of the march.
JP Morgan Chase’s Slavement When you heard the word “slavery”, you knew that it related to abusiveness, inhumanity, and brutality with keeping the slaves to work 24/7 without payment, abusing them if they don’t follow the direct order and letting them died slowly without giving them any food. African-American had been enslaved in The United States of America since early 17th century. Slavery had its origin with the first English Colonization of North America in Virginia in 1607, even though African slaves were brought to Spanish Florida in 1607.⁽¹) Furthermore, it had been more than twelve million African were shipped to America from 16th to 19th century to work as slaves. At that point of time, slaves didn’t have their own rights to fight for themselves. I personally think that slavery was one of the most unethical issues that ever happened in The United States of America, and one of those many cases pointed out to the second-biggest bank in The U.S., JP Morgan Chase, which had two predecessors in Louisiana that had customers that appear to have used enslaved individuals.⁽2⁾ Even though the law already persistent the slavery case clearly with the adoption of the Thirteen Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865, JP Morgan Chase extended loans to slave-owners using slaves as collateral for the loans, consolidated lawsuit alleges.⁽3⁾ JP Morgan Chase hired a Maryland research firm and found that its predecessors had approximately 13,000 enslaved individuals as collateral on loans and took ownership of approximately 1,250 of them when the plantation owners defaulted on the loans.⁽4⁾ JP Morgan Chase’s involvement in this case because there was a link between JP Morgan’s predecessors which were Citizens Bank and Canal Bank, and Bank One which JP Morgan bought in 2004.
The Impacts of Slavery, Race, and Capitalism in North America Taken from their homeland, ripped of their freedom, and enslaved to those who would suppress their race for so long in the centuries to come, were the Africans of West Africa. This marks the start of the separation of races and establishing power in the colonies in North America. During the seventeenth century, indigo became an immensely favored commodity for English planters. Indigo flourished most and became a major cash crop especially in English colonies, South Carolina and Georgia. Indigo was an extremely difficult crop to grow and harvest, and required intense and extensive labor.
From the very first time they were brought to American till the abolition of the bonds and manacles of slavery, the American blacks went through a hard struggle for equality and pursuits to emancipate themselves from segregation and agonies that engrave their history with pains and sufferings. Men and women , alike , were savagely discriminated and subjected to different kinds of abuse and offensive wrongdoings of the hardhearted owners of plantations who exploited the American Blacks to the extent they violently dehumanized and intently deprived them from the simplest right a human being could benefit from. All these hardships and mistreatment threw their light and influential impacts on the whole panorama of the black community and culturally affected it to the welfare of the Blacks. From the womb of anguish and yoke of oppression, men and women started their everlasting struggle to seek their own liberation and fought all kinds of gender and racial segregation through literary texts and works which vehemently let cries in the face of dehumanization and tyranny and call for reformation. Gender and racial problems call for a social critical attention because they pervade and permeate society and form predominant burning issues in the contemporary global scene.