• By 1860, there were 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in
the United States due to the Atlantic slave trade, andபைடு நூலகம்
another 500,000 African Americans lived free cross the country. • Over time in most areas of the Americas, these different peoples did away with tribal differences and forged a new history and culture that was a creolization of their common pasts and present.
African American
Negro / Nigger
Darkie
Black
African American
Introduction of Slavery 17th & 18th Century American Civil War 19th Century The Civil Rights Movement 20th Century
Exploitation. Increased economic oppression of blacks, Latinos, and Asians, denial of economic opportunities, and widespread employment discrimination.
• But African Americans still not free. They are suffering from segregation （种族隔离）, discrimination and oppression（压迫）. They had no citizenship rights. African Americans were the victims of the unspeakable horrors of police and brutality.
Racial segregation. By law, public facilities and government services such as education were divided into separate "white" and "colored" domains.
Disenfranchisement. （剥夺公民选举 权）Black voters were forced off the voting rolls, and elections were made more complicated.
How does the status of African Americans improved in the course of American history？
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How can we call those black people?
Negro
Spanish word “black”
Violence. Individual, police, organizational, and mass racial violence against blacks.
Montgomery Bus Boycott 蒙哥马利巴士抵制运动
• On December 1, 1955, Montgomery, Alabama in the United States, Rosa Parks, an African-American seamstress, boarded a bus. When she was in the bus driving after several station, the bus driver ordered Rosa Parks to her seat to a white passenger. Rosa Parks thought she should get and white the same treatment, and refused to give up her seat. Subsequently, Parks was arrested by the police.
Introduction of Slavery 17th & 18th Century
American Civil War 19th Century
• In 1863, during the American Civil War (1861–1865), President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation(解放黑奴宣言). The proclamation declared all slaves in states that had seceded from the Union were free.
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African Origins
• The majority of African Americans descend from slaves who were either sold as prisoners of war by African states or kidnapped directly by Europeans or Americans.
Introduction of Slavery 17th & 18th Century
Black slaves were the slave owners’ private property, they were treat just like animals and were purchased to do some hard work, there was no freedom for them.