I belong to the African American race and my ancestors were brought to America during times of conflict and were bought, sold and used as workers on American soil. Other Africans immigrated to the United States. The first Africans in America arrived as indentured servants in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. Several African families own farms and some were wealthy. In the 1770's the American Revolution happened, and by 186- there were about 3.5 million Africans enslaved in the United States because of the Atlantic Slave Trade. African Americans had to submit to humility and violence during these times. African Americans have faced plenty of unjust actions from prejudice, segregation and racism. Yes, African Americans faced all three. They faced these problems because whites knew they were different and they wanted the African Americans to know that they were different, so therefore they treated them differently. Black Americans lived generation after generation as slaves from 1619 to 1865. That is when the southern states that separated from the United States in a Civil War that cost millions of lives and slavery was abolished.
There have been many prejudice behavior and social injustices that has been brought on African American people in Africa and the United States. For example, African Americans had to eat, sit, drink and learn in places specially made for them (blacks). Apartheid has been a leading role to separating society. It goes on today, but it’s more of the rich and the poor. Since African Americans were not original citizens, they could not vote, own property, serve on juries or hold offices. When the slaves were finally freed The federal government never followed through on the General Sherman’s Civil War plan to divide up plantations and give each freed slave “40 acres and a mule” as reparations. Americans have profited from 200 years of unpaid slave labor, including interest, begin their estimates at $1 trillion, Julie Moore of the...