The United States History - 1568 Words

MALIK, 703, HUMANITIES CYCLE 4 Over the course of the united states history there have been many different ethnic groups who have been discriminated. There s sna very long list of people who were forced out of certain opportunities because of their skin color, but for this project I old like to focus on the African American people. So African Americans (AA) have a long history of discrimination in this country starting out with the idea of races. Europeans originally used irish and indian people as their slaves(at least the british did) and african americans were better than the sea of poor whites so than demand began(this was the latter part of the 17th century)The transatlantic slave trade took many aa away during 1525 and 1866†¦show more content†¦While tensions are mounting to between America and England Two notable things happen one aa Lucy Terry writes a poem in 1746 and is the very first aa to get it published. Also Phillis weasley publishes a book. Later on in time after the colonies war with Great Britain,and the American revolution began slaves on both sides were offered their freedom in exchange for their service in the military. So there were both freed American slaves on the British and American sides. They joined the british for liberty and freedom much like they should have gotten when the sided with the americans when they joined the British. After the was over and the Americans were successful in establishing this here country, just like had been done to them before they were lied to ruthlessly and heartlessly cheated out of their freedom and things stayed the same. In the time inbetween the revolution and the civil war a lot happened like for example nat turner s rebellion, where nat turner and other slaves led a violent and short lived rebellion against their ex-oppressors(1831).(1839) 53 African slaves on board the slave ship the Amistad revolted against their captors, killing all but the ship s navigator, who sailed them to Long Island, N.Y., instead of their intended destination, Africa. Joseph Cinquà © was the group s leader. The slaves aboard the ship