African American Slavery

 

African American Slavery trade was prohibited in 1808 by congress. Importing slaves may not had been allowed, but their was still trading and auctions around to sell slaves. Around 1790 and 1860, slavery was pushed more to the southern area. Being put in a area not close to their family. The reason for raising and selling them was to make the economy better for them in ways of getting money. They had different jobs in the 1800s, they worked for hours and hours on picking cotton and planting. Some did laundry and made dinner. Some worked in factories, construction workers.
If some did good, they were given nice things. While some slaves werent appreciated at times,they were threatened. Some worked in mines and there they were usually punished. But some were freed because of their goodness of doing so well with their owners after their owner died. They created the underground railroad in canada in the 1800s. There was many free Negroes after the 1830s. During the 1830s and 1860s, the number of slaves decreased.

There was different negros in seven classes. some were descendents of some servants, while some were born free mothers. Some were successful at gaining freedom. But these slaves were not considered as good people to follow for the other slaves in different communities. The more they tried to escape, the worse they were said as bad examples to follow. If a negro was to try to become a free slave, they had to pay for the mayer and his family $50 each person. Even if they were free, they could not underestimate and do wrong towards the whites, they were sent to jail for any misbehavior they had. There was 290 free slaves that became trapped in the city jail. Life for both free slaves and slaves, still remained a struggle

Niagara Movement

 

During the year of 1905,  Du Bois had great contolling power over the black community. He formed a meeting at the Niagara Falls, New York.He formed a group offering militant alternative to Washington This is how it became known as the Niagara Movement.It represented the African American community. Booker Washington had made a policy of adjustments. Of July, 29 men formed a group called the niagra movement, the reason for the groups name was because of the location that everything was taking place and it became something that they wanted to protest  and let out world wide, something they wanted to be done.They believed that all men were equal, meaning that no man is better than the other, they also believed that everyone should be treated the same due to their actions or conduct. 

Economically, at the time, they argued that negro-americans should have the option of living out their own dreams and making a living decently like regular americans did. Education was not given to them properly around this time they were seperated because of color  during schooling. There was not much education given in the south, so they believed that they should have the rights to have proper teaching, or if they wanted to be well educated, have the ability and decision to have higher education.Juries was made to stop discrimination and if negro-americans ever made a fault in their actions, whites should have the same punishments so as to being equal towards torment and hatred.They believed that all men were created equal, even though they had different rights for certain things. In many ways, they helped and supported the African American people in slavery. They stood as great supporters from year 1896 to 1954.

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Harriet Tubman

Originally, around 1819, Harriet Tubman birth name was Araminta Ross. in Dorchester County, Maryland. being brought into slavery, she was not treated right, taking in whippings throughout her life. At age 6, she gained experience in working, but was beaten a lot. She had gotten the measles at that age,  her owners at the time thought that something was wrong with her. So they brought her back to Brodas, getting her owners changed after she got better. But then, it turned out her new owners wasn't any better than the first. They whipped her while she worked, and was taken back to Brodas due to her behavior. She was later given a bright bandana to wear over her head representing she was no longer a child. She got her named changed to Harriet, naming herself after her mother. She was injured during the time she was age 12 because she refused to help a white man in tying a man who tried to escape from somewhere.

At the age 25, she married a man named John Tubman who was a free African American who did not want to leave nor want her to travel north in escape of the area. She wanted to leave the area so she did not have to go into slavery again. But he didn't care, and he said if she does he will tell her master. She wanted freedom, so in order to have that freedom, she had left him 1849 and escaped to Philadelphia. During her escape, a white abolitionist neighbor, gave a piece of paper, in help to her freedom. So she took the opportunity heading in the direction to freedom, while receiving help from other abolitionists. After arriving to Philadelphia, she got a job where she got payed to help free slaves. In 1850, she helped slaves leave the north. She went back to get her husband, but he had already remarried so she went back.Later she was made a "conductor"of the underground railroad knowing all the rights to free territory. in 1951, she came back to the U.S. to help other slaves escape. She continued her search in other slaves to help them in freedom. In 1861, she had gotten a job in the civil war, becoming a nurse helping injured soldiers, treating them with medicines. After the war ended 1869, she got married to a man named Nelson Davis, whom she stood with for 19 years, till he had died. So she returned back to Auburn New York while supporting for women rights. But then, she died 1913. When 1995 arrived, she was honored by the federal government, bearing her name and likeness.
  

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