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- 491: Biography of Robert E. Lee
- ... in Texas. When Texas seceded from the Union in 1861, Lee was called to Washington D.C. to wait for further orders. Unlike many Southerners, Lee did not believe in slavery and did not favor secession. He felt that slavery had an evil effect on masters as well as slaves. Long before the war, he had freed the few slaves whom he had inherited. Lee greatly admired George Washington, and ...
- 492: Egyptian Cosmogony
- ... culture, when studying any type of black music it is very much an exploration into the back mind. Music has been part of the black cultural scene dating back to slavery. Although Jazz music is loved and performed by people of every national background, in America, the groundbreaker, leader and innovator in every step forward of Jazz has been the Negro ... be possessed by a spirit in a state of mental and physical convulsion. Soon many African- American rites and celebrations were born, playing a major role in the life of slavery. Jazz is a music with a history and a heart, it is both historically and musically a very deep expression of American culture, it has grown in to a vast ...
- 493: I Too Sing America
- ... hidden from the company, the company can be interpreted as a metaphor for foreign countries, or people in general. Most American people were blind to the horror and brutality of slavery. Slavery was also Psychological, that's why the knowledge is important. Before one can rise up, one must first discover what it is they are rising up against. "Tomorrow/I’ll ...
- 494: Early Chinese Immigrant
- ... Gold Rush) With the large fertile lands of California, workers were needed to help reap the profits that would flow in. In 1833, the British Empire abolished the practice of slavery. Plantation owners desperate for field labor made use of coolies. Coolies were basically Chinese that signed labor contracts and were held in virtual slavery. They were ensnared by brokers into this system by debts, clan war prisoners, or kidnapping. (From Gold Rush) Like the African slave trade, this method flourished over Asia and had ...
- 495: Alexander The Great
- ... on an island but Alexander built a causeway out to the island so that it is now a peninsula. About 8,000 Tyrians were killed and 30,000 sold to slavery. Alexander’s victory over Tyre is sometimes considered the greatest military achievement. After that, the whole region surrendered to him except Gaza, where a brave Persian governor resisted for three ... the Persian cities of Susa and Persepolis. These cities yielded to him vast treasures of gold and silver. All of the inhabitants of Perspolis were either killed or sold into slavery. Shortly after, Alexander married a daughter of a Sogdian baron, Roxanne. Victory in India Alexander reinforced his troops and reached the rich plains of India in 326 BC. He defeated ...
- 496: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... Despite persistent tries to advance the cause of the blacks, Truman was repeatedly shot down by a conservative congress. The boiling discontent felt by the blacks since the days of slavery could not be silenced so easily. The war had generated a new militancy and restlessness in the black community. Blacks increasingly voiced their opinions publicly and found many effective ways ... of blacks were the landmark supreme court's rulings enacted to tear down the institutions of segregation in place for nearly three quarters of a century after the fall of slavery. Clearing the way for the civil rights movement was Chief Justice Earl Warren. Appointed by Eisenhower, a man who believed more in social harmony than social justice, Warren shocked the ...
- 497: Sojourner Truth
- ... York State, Truth was born a slave and remained so until 1826. Although she never lived on a plantation or in the South, Truth experienced first-hand the brutality of slavery. As she related in her autobiography, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, first published in 1850, one master scarred her for life when she was only nine years old. Like many enslaved ... than one million Americans, that the end of the world was at hand. African Americans, in particular, foresaw an impending Day of Judgment prompted by the continuing national sin of slavery, and in her wanderings, Sojourner Truth preached for others to find Jesus before the second advent. Truth soon made her way to Northampton, Massachusetts, where she mingled with other social ...
- 498: Thomas Jefferson Biography
- ... and a proper education. (6) These values helped him obtain the Presidency and accomplish many feats during his term. One of his most widely known belief is his attitude toward slavery. He believed that “all men are created equal” and that slaves were unnecessary and a cruel way to treat fellow humans. However, even while Jefferson believed the slavery was “an evil that would plague the Union," he owned a great number of slaves. (7) Jefferson did not even set his slaves free while on his deathbed. Due to ...
- 499: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
- ... by a very small group of people, when in fact it should have been run by the simple majority: "I am willing to leave it to the majority" (Thoreau 225). Slavery was Thoreau's biggest issue with the government. He felt that slavery was inhumane, and that a government who claimed to stand for and protect liberty had no right permitting the practice. Though Thoreau wanted an immediate end to or improvement of ...
- 500: Malcolm X
- Malcolm X According to many, Black America is facing its worse crisis since the days of slavery., with black-on-black violence, endemic drug abuse and the virtual disappearance of the two-parent family the most visible symbols of a community devastated by unemployment and Government cuts ... called land of the free, a country which claimed to be the champion of democracy yet denied that self-same democracy to its own twenty million strong black population. Although slavery had been abolished in America after the 1861-1865 Civil War, negroes were still treated as the lowest of the low, not only in the deeply bigoted South but also ...
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