It's surprising to know that African American were not all enslaved. While reading, I learned that some African Americans were born free; black and you're not enslaved. Growing up I always that thought that in the nineteenth hundredths and in previous years all African Americans were born into slavery. It's ironic that in 1617, African Americans had their own settlement in Mexico. Who would have thought that African Americans had their own settlement in Mexico, that's very surprising. The color of my skin originated from those that worked in intense heat and sunlight. African Americans skin dark sin color was to protect them from the sun. I don't see how darn skin complexion is going to protect you from the sun. Growing up I always believed that being in the sun if you're black is just going to make you gain a darker skin tone.
While reading, the book "To make our world anew", talks of how African Americans brought strong traditions with them. They would tell when harvest time would be, they would tell the name of a new born and so much more. If Africa Americans were capable of so many things, then why were they looked down on as if they were trash? The looking down upon may not occur as much as it did now, but it's still here. Now I see why many African Americans came from different places. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries many African Americans came to the Americas, but were distributed to many place in the world. The most common; Latin America, the Caribbean, and Britain, which was like only five percent. This is why when I heard someone say well, I'm African American, and that there family was born in the United States, someone said that their family had to come from somewhere else besides the United States of America.
Slaves had an opportunity to not be enslaved under some conditions. Who was to know that that even existed. The Spanish were the first people to give African Americans some of the rights that they deserved as according to the declaration of Independence.
When slaves were carried to others states to be owned by slaveowners, they would travel on a ship. Traveling on a ship for the Africa Americans, was a hard thing. There was very little space. African Americans were dying day by day in the ships. After African Americans were dead by diseases and infections , their bodies would be thrown into the river with sharks. African Americans were getting tired of living in the terrible conditions that they were in while on the ships. Some people decided to just give up and commit suicide by throwing themselves overboard. Mothers would even feel so down where they would throw their babies overboard.
African Americans depended upon each other. Music was a big part of their tradition. Africans had many languages, and they found help from each other. When African Americans migrated from one place to another they adopted languages forms different places. Many African Americans decided that they would stick with their religious views from growing up, but some African Americans who left Africa when they were very young, or were born in the new world would accept the whites religious views.
Many African Americans wanted to rebel against slave masters, but the task and punishment was a hard thing to accomplish. Africans would burn down house of whites or they would poison whites while cooking in the kitchen. If a slave didn't get away with their ways of revenge, then slave masters would treat them with horrible acts, and acts of their own, for example putting shackles on the slaves, or even whipping them. Masters even went as far as putting masks over the slaves face so that they couldn't sneak any food to put in their mouth.
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