Blacks in America
It is no secret that African Americans in the land currently known as the United States have been abused and mistreated for centuries. Some of the most horrific displays of the loss of humanity and respect for life have found their victims in the African American community. Early on in the America's, during the age of colonialism, merchants found it was most profitable to import slaves from Africa, which they could get cheap from feuding tribes, to work of sugar and tobacco plantations. Soon, the islands and the mainland were teeming with African American activity, which was suppressed by the wealthy and powerful landowners. Their culture and heritage was squashed, and replaced by forceful missionaries and preachers with perverted interpretations of Christ's message of understanding and compassion. The African Americans moved on through the slavery issue, which grew to become and epidemic, one that required an immediate and absolute cure. And they therefore turned to politic, and Abraham Lincoln, whose drive and deter
mination led them from bondage to freedom, but at the same time opened a world of new problems. To begin with, their freedom was limited, and they were not given the same opportunities as whites. Many expected to buy land, but were thwarted to find that "black laws" had been passed to inhibit their ability to do so. Such hate groups as the Ku Klux Klan flared up, and hatred and tensions ran high, and over time blacks began to feel to discomfort the whites so hastily put upon them. After a considerable period of waiting and working, many blacks moved north, where acceptance was more likely, though still not probably. This mass exodus to such places s New York was the driving force behind what has become known as the "Harlem Renaissance." It was a time when these African Americans were given the chance to share with each other what they knew about their culture and heritage, and extend it into new fields of music, art, and literature. Still though the blacks were unable to make any real strongholds in public unders
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Approximate Word count = 695
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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