I have a feeling that most slave lives were mainly the same, except for when the slave masters had different races; this was rarely. I have previously read other slave books, and I really do not like reading and picturing descriptions on how slaves were treated and used. I get chills. I really feel bad for slaves, because they really did not have a choice in becoming a slave or not. If the person was told to be a slave, that person had to be a slave no matter what.
Because of slavery, black’s concept of God was totally different from the masters who enslaved them. White Christians saw God as a more spiritual savior, the reflection of God for blacks came in the struggle for freedom by blacks. The black theology ideas are old, nearly 400 years ago during the time of slavery African Americans sang spiritual hymns as their worked on the field of their masters, which can be seen as the birth of black liberation theology
Kemetic people created paper and ink, and also created their own language called hieroglyphics. To the Kemetic people, everything was centered on spiritualty, which was very important to them. Another point that Dr. Ingram mentioned was “Before there was history, there was Black History.” This quote is major and has a great meaning. Day to
However, they are search for their identities in Aminata who looks familiar to them. Mamed could see the resemblence between Aminata and his mother. Therefore, they taught Aminata about the western culture as well as the survival skills at workto build up their own identity. In addition, Alex Haley, the author of “Roots”, shows how the strength of the human spirit to overcome challenges comes from pride in one's heritage. The protagonist of Roots, Kunta was born in Africa and later was captured by the white slavers.
Those rituals were completely different from the ones of Christian slaveholders, like shamanism and other tribal cults. Soon, both African cults and Christianity were mixed together giving rise to new cults, like voodoo for example. By the eighteenth century, slaves were being forced to convert to the slaveholder’s religion, which caused the loss of many tribal practices in the African-American slave community. In 1807, the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves forbid the importation of slaves from African countries. The slaveholding system had become self-sufficient and this dictated the end of many tribal practices among black slaves.
Masters would even read the Bible with their slaves because most slaves were illiterate or not allowed to read and write based upon laws. By reading the Bible together, the masters were providing the slaves with religion which served as a means to connect the slave populations. Black children and white children were even allowed to play together on the plantations, so there was a great deal of interaction between the races. During the time of the American Revolution, the ideology of slavery began to be questioned by not only the North but also in the South. “Relatively few people called for its immediate abolition, but many, including some slave owners, expressed real concern over its morality as its utility.” (Kolchin 65) The people questioning slavery inquired about the morality of using slaves for their labor purposes.
We are taught to blame slavery on the Southern states but we learned that the Northern states were just as responsible due to their lack of action, fear of the results due to abolishment, and most importantly their double standard on the stance of slavery. Professor Nash gives us and insightful view from the eyes of free blacks and their contribution in the fight for freedom and equality of African Americans. This book has given me an insight of our history of slavery that I was unaware of, people involved and events that took place. The struggle for equality that we have in our country now is evident that it stem from our past. Using these events we can understand ourselves and continue to build a stable and free America which our forefathers based their fight for liberty and freedom from England and strengthen the words written within our Constitution that establish freedom and equality for “ALL
Even though this quotation is a major source in the ills of the African American community we lack of knowledge of our history. I think we must begin by respecting and educating ourselves. Every successful person should be able to know the history of his past in order to educate his children
Richard Scigarjovs AFR 2612 / 7894 Final Examination Before i came to AFR2612 the only thing i knew was what was tought to in public schools. I never thought about African relegion or philosophy. This course has given allot to think about, philosophy is such a general term that to pick it out of a completley difrent civilization is not so easy. Learning from a difrenet perspective gave me a better understanding than whats taught in public schools. After readin articles and stories like "The concepts of time" by Mbiti, "The racial contract" by C.W.
Much of the plantation and slave owner’s power came from the slave’s dependence on the owner for survival. Education was seen as a way to establish an independence; thus weakening the slave owner’s control. Several laws were passed in the Deep South, which forbid slaves to learn to read and write as well as making it illegal for any persons, white or black, to educate slaves. In 1740,