African Americans In The Early 1800s

Agustin Banuelos Hist 313 Prof. Diana Reed December 6, 2015 Word Count: African-Americans in the South (1910’s - 1920’s) America in the 1920’s was not as friendly and diverse as it is today. Many ethnic groups were discriminated against and hated by the general populace. A group that is a great example of just how much America has changed in its short span of two-hundred-and-thirty-nine years.

African Americans face a struggle with racism which has been present in our country before the Civil War began in 1861. America still faces racism today however, around the 1920’s the daily life of an African American slowly began to improve. Thus, this time period was known by many, as the “Negro Fad” (O’Neill). The quality of life and freedom of African Americans that lived in the United States was constantly evolving and never completely considered ‘equal’. From being enslaved, to fighting for their freedom, African Americans were greatly changing the status quo and beginning to make their mark in the United States.

Pain. Deception. Hatred. These words are rooted in the minds of the African countries whenever the mention of Imperialism. This practice of extending a government's reign to gain economic control, using missionaries as facades, hurt many African’s during 1750 to 1914.

Although by the late eighteenth century slavery was disappearing from Connecticut the 1790 census indicates that a considerable number of free African American families continued to live in households that were headed by whites. Likely due to the economic and social struggle that remained, however in the town of Fairfield the census contained two households headed by non-whites. One of these two families headed by Sarah Hubbard had been independent since 1769. While most of Connecticut’s African Americans gained their freedom as slavery was abolished the Hubbards do not fit this pattern.

Before the American Civil War happened close to four million African-Americans were slaves. At the turn of the century the Naturalization Act of 1970 allowed only white men to vote. After the Civil War the thirteenth (1865), fourteenth (1868) and fifteenth (1870) amendments were passed, allowing African-American males to vote and have citizenship, which also led to ending slavery. Even after the ending of slavery, there were still some white men who tried to keep white supremacy alive thereby dehumanizing and alienating African-Americans from the mainstream of people. Even after African-Americans were given all their rights, there were still problems with racial segregation.

In the early 1900’s America as a country was going through a reconstruction as they just overcame a four year battle that split the country into free and slave states. . Race played a big factor in this reconstruction, because before the civil war wealthy whites were able to own slaves. Slaves were supposed to gain their full freedom after the civil war, but they never really gained it. Many opportunities opened for Americans, and as the country became one again.

In the early explorer days the first African American to enter America was Juan Guarrido came to florida with Spanish explorers in 1513. He was free and left a mark on the new world. Guarrido helped Ortex take Mexico then he headed for California searching for gold. In 1534 a black man struggled to cross the Texas desert; his name was Esteban The Moor.

The United States (U.S.) has gone through many changes throughout its long and harrowing history. All of these stages of U.S. history are influential in their own ways. But the most influential era of United States history is 1914 through 1920. While WWI was a bloody and sad war it pioneered modern technology like no other era in American history. WWI was a war that started because of the assasination of archduke ferdinand on june 28,1914 (“CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I”).

At the turn of the century, blacks have been free for some time and in order for their advancement to freedom to occur they must be able to have a say not only in politics but the economy as well. In order for blacks to succeed in the time of the early 1900's they must stay in the south in order to take control of it. Blacks have the power to control the economy in the south because they are the only ones willing to do the labor. This is why I believe the idea of blacks moving to the north is not what is best for the blacks of the 1900's. This not to say that there are several opportunities for blacks in the north but for people who have done nothing but labor, the south is all that they know.

The “discovery” by the United States that Europe had inferior and superior races was a result of the large amount of immigration from southern and eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century (Brodkin, 1994). Before this wave of immigration took place, European immigrants had been accepted into the white population. However, the European immigrants who came to the United States to work after 1880 were too numerous and too concentrated to scatter and blend in. Rather, they built working-class ethnic communities in the United States’ urban areas. Because of this, urban American began to take on a noticeably immigrant feel (Brodkin,

The 1900s were full of white privilege and racism. Not only did white supremacists kill many escaping slaves, but many enslaved, alienated, and separated African Americans, which is frustrating to no end. People like Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Barack Obama helped make the world a better place for many of these people but giving Black men and women voting rights and desegregating many public areas through their positions of power and freedom of speech. Escaped slaves who were caught were hung.

According to Thomas Maloney, University of Utah, the nineteenth century was a time of radical tranformation in the political and legal status of African Americans. Blacks were freed from slavery and began to enjoy greater right in citizens. The century was divide into three distinct eras. However the text said it is four.

“The South grew, but it did not develop,” is the way one historian described the South during the beginning of the nineteenth century because it failed to move from an agrarian to an industrial economy. This was primarily due to the fact that the South’s agricultural economy was skyrocketing, which caused little incentive for ambitious capitalists to look elsewhere for profit. Slavery played a major role in the prosperity of the South’s economy, as well as impacting it politically and socially. However, despite the common assumption that the majority of whites in the South were slave owners, in actuality only a small minority of southern whites did in fact own slaves. With a population of just above 8 million, the number of slaveholders was only 383,637.

Introduction: During the 1800’s, Slavery was an immense problem in the United States. Slaves were people who were harshly forced to work against their will and were often deprived of their basic human rights. Forced marriages, child soldiers, and servants were all considered part of enslaved workers. As a consequence to the abolition people found guilty were severely punished by the law.

In the 1950s there were several laws that kept African American people separated from White Americans. African Americans were not allowed to do anything with White Americans or even be close to them. The White Americans were so harsh toward them that they established laws that said that African Americans could not vote, could not enter the same building of White Americans, they was not even allowed to drink out of the same water fountain. The people of the South were very strict to their beliefs and laws and if any African American was caught breaking any of the laws they were punished and sometimes killed. Some African Americans that were not familiar with the dangers of the south were few of the unfortunate ones to lose their life.