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A 5 page discussion of the transition from slave to citizen for American blacks. The author outlines
key historical fact and emphasizes the importance of African tradition in allowing the slaves to not only survive but eventually to triumph.
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black slaves arrived in the Americas in 1619 with the arrival of a Dutch ship to Jamestown Virginia. The cargo, in part, included twenty black men. The journey
could not have been pleasant. These men were likely chained in the bowels of the ship that transported them to the Americas. They would have seen no sunlight
and been fed only enough to keep them alive. This journey, however, was likely just the beginning of the trials and tribulations they would face in the new land.
Blacks would be forced to endure over two centuries of slavery and persecution. Even when they were finally emancipated blacks did not immediately find themselves on equal footing with
white Americans. The thesis can be presented, however, that blacks today have finally managed to rise above the injustices past slavery and achieve true equality with white Americans.
Never-the-less many of the elements that infiltrated their history as slaves still play an important role in the contemporary black experience. The fact that they were able to retain
much of their traditional culture, or at least to modify elements of that culture, played a tremendously important role in allowing blacks to finally triumph in the Americas.
Many facts impacted the black experience in the Americas and that impact is occurring even today. Some of those impacts are positive but others
are negative. Misperceptions abound and they in themselves serve as a denigration to the contemporary black experience. One of the most predominant misperceptions regarding slavery is that Africans
were the only people to be bound in slavery and that American was the only place where slavery occurred. In reality the practice of slavery encompassed all races and
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