African American History or Black American History, a history of black people in the United States from their arrival in the Americas in the 15th century until the present day. In 2000, 34.7 million Americans, about one out of every eight people in the United States, were black. Although blacks from the West Indies and other areas have migrated to the United States in the 20th century, most African Americans were born in the United States, and this has been true since the early 19th century. Until the mid-20th century, the African American population was concentrated in the Southern states. Even today, a little over half of all African Americans live in the South. Blacks also make up a significant part of the population in most urban areas in the eastern United States and in some mid-western and western cities as well.
Africans and their descendants have been a part of the story of the Americas at least since the late 1400s. As scouts, interpreters, navigators, and military men, blacks were among those who first encountered Native Americans. Beginning in the colonial period, African Americans provided most of thelabor on which European settlement, development, and wealth depended, especially after European wars and diseases decimated Native Americans.
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African workers had extensive experience in cultivating rice, cotton, and sugar, all crops grown in West and North Africa. These skills became the basis of a flourishing plantation economy. Africans were also skilled at ironworking, music and musical instruments, the decorative arts, and architecture. Their work, which still marks the landscape today, helped shape American cultural styles. They brought with them African words, religious beliefs, styles of worship, aesthetic values, musical forms and rhythms. All of these were important from the beginning in shaping a hybrid American culture.
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Portuguese traders brought the first African slaves for agricultural labor to the Caribbean in 1502. From then until 1860, it is estimated that more than 10 million people were transported from Africa to the Americas. The great majority were brought to the Caribbean, Brazil, or the Spanish colonies of Central and South America. Only about 6 percent were traded in British North America.
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The Portuguese, Dutch, and British controlled most of the Atlantic slave trade. Most Africans taken to North America came from the various cultures of western and west central Africa. The territories that are now Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria were the origins of most slaves brought to North America, although significant numbers also came from the areas that are now Senegal, Gambia, and Angola. These areas were home to diverse linguistic, ethnic, and religious groups. Most of the people enslaved were subsistence farmers and raised livestock. Their agricultural and pastoral skills made them valuable laborers in the Americas.
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To transport the captured Africans to the Americas, Europeans loaded them onto specially constructed ships with platforms below deck designed to maximize the numbers of slaves that could be transported. Africans were confined for two to three months in irons in the hold of a slave ship during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean called the Middle Passage. The meager diet of rice, yams, or beans and the filthy conditions created by overcrowding resulted in a very high death rate. Many ships reached their destinations with barely half their cargo of slaves still alive to sell into forced labor in the Americas.
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The first Africans brought to the English colonies in North America came on a Dutch privateer that landed at Jamestown, Virginia, in August 1619. The ship had started out with about 100 captives, but it had run into extremely bad weather. When the ship finally put into Jamestown, it had only 20 surviving Africans to sell to the struggling colony. Soon many of the colonies along the Atlantic seaboard started importing African slaves. The Dutch West India Company brought 11 Africans to its garrison trading post in New Amsterdam (known today as New York City) in 1626, and Pennsylvanians imported 150 Africans in 1684.
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Abolitionist Movement, reform movement during the 18th and 19th centuries. Often called the antislavery movement, it sought to end the enslavement of Africans and people of African descent in Europe, the Americas, and Africa itself. It also aimed to end the Atlantic slave trade carried out in the Atlantic Ocean between Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Fore more Visit: www.worldhistory-hero.blogspot.com
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The Atlantic slave trade began in Africa in the mid-1400s and lasted into the 19th century. Initially, Portuguese traders purchased small numbers of slaves from kingdoms on the western coast of Africa and transported them for sale in Portugal and Spain. The Atlantic slave trade did not become a huge enterprise until after European nations began colonizing the Americas during the 1500s. During the 1600s the Dutch pushed the Portuguese out of the trade and then contested the British and French for control of it. By 1713 Britain had emerged as the dominant slave-trading nation. In all, the trade brought more than 10 million Africans to America, and at least another 1 million Africans died in passage. ( Five of the World’s Biggest minds reveal the secrets behind how to Think Big – and Act on it – to reach unparalleled success Click Here Now To Find Out! )
The brutality of the Atlantic slave trade and of slavery itself played an important role in the origins of the abolitionist movement. Those subjected to the trade suffered horribly: They were chained, branded, crowded onto disease-ridden slave ships, and abused by ship’s crews. Many Africans died on the ships well before they arrived in the Americas. Once in the colonies, slaves were deprived of their human rights, made to endure dreadful conditions, and forced to perform backbreaking labor. Despite the horrors of the slave trade and slavery, white opposition to the institution developed slowly. The economies of many of the colonies were based on huge plantations that required large labor forces in order to be profitable. Also, views of society at the time were very hierarchical, and many people simply accepted the fact that classes of people they considered lower than themselves should be enslaved. In addition, the widespread perception that blacks were culturally, morally, and intellectually inferior to whites contributed to the longevity of the system. It was not until the early 18th century that attitudes began to change. ( Five of the World’s Biggest minds reveal the secrets behind how to Think Big – and Act on it – to reach unparalleled success Click Here Now To Find Out! )
Black resistance to enslavement, Christian humanitarianism, economic change, and intellectual developments all contributed to the rise of abolitionist movements in European countries—most notably Great Britain—and in the colonial Americas. Black resistance was the most important of these factors. Since the 1500s Africans and persons of African descent had attempted to free themselves from slavery by force. Revolts were most common in the West Indies and Brazil, where the majority of the population was black. But there were also uprisings in Mexico, Venezuela, and the British colonies in North America.
Until the end of the 18th century, rebellious slaves did not really challenge the institution of slavery itself. Instead, they simply sought to free themselves from it. While this rebellion occasionally took the form of slave revolts or uprisings, more frequently slaves tried to free themselves by escape. Sometimes, especially in the West Indies and Latin America, escaped slaves formed maroon communities. These settlements were located in inaccessible areas, to prevent recapture by the authorities, and were usually heavily fortified. Maroon communities, many of which endured for years or decades, became havens for escaped slaves and bases for attacks on plantations and passersby. In a way, these communities encouraged antislavery sentiment among whites: The inability of local authorities to recapture escaped slaves and the periodic violent raids by members of maroon communities made some whites disturbingly aware of their vulnerability in a slave society. In addition, whites became more aware of the inherent cruelty of slavery because slaves were willing to risk severe punishment and even death to escape from their masters or to rise up against them. If slaves had submitted meekly to their masters, slavery would not have been perceived to be oppressive and sinful. ( Five of the World’s Biggest minds reveal the secrets behind how to Think Big – and Act on it – to reach unparalleled success Click Here Now To Find Out! )
The first whites to denounce slavery in Europe and the European colonies were members of the Society of Friends—commonly known as Quakers. Unlike the prevailing idea of the time that blacks were inferior to whites, Quakers believed that all people, regardless of race, had a divine spark inside them and were equal in the eyes of God. These beliefs led them in the mid-18th century to take steps against slavery in Great Britain and the British colonies in North America. The first goal of the Quaker abolitionists was to end slave trading among fellow Quakers because the barbarity of the buying and selling of slaves was more obvious than that of the institution of slavery as a whole. It was also generally assumed that if the slave trade was abolished slavery itself would soon cease to exist. After slave trading among Friends had been stopped, during the 1760s Quaker congregations began expelling slaveholders. Under the influence of Quakers in the American colonies, British Quakers established Britain’s first antislavery society, the London Committee to Abolish the Slave Trade, in 1783.
In the late 18th century an age of revolution began to bring ideas about equal rights to the forefront, ideas that became a powerful force against slavery in the Atlantic world. In the past, servitude and slavery had been taken for granted as part of a class system where the rich dominated the poor and those of the lower classes were prevented from social advancement. But the Industrial Revolution, which brought increased economic opportunity and power to the lower and middle classes, began to undermine this system. Also, an 18th-century European intellectual movement known as the Age of Enlightenment asserted that all human beings had natural rights. The American Revolution (1775-1783) and the French Revolution (1789-1799), widely seen as revolutions by citizens against oppressive rulers, transformed this Enlightenment assertion into a call for universal liberty and freedom. ( Five of the World’s Biggest minds reveal the secrets behind how to Think Big – and Act on it – to reach unparalleled success Click Here Now To Find Out! )
The successful slave revolt that began in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791 was part of this revolutionary age. Led by François Dominique Toussaint Louverture, black rebels overthrew the colonial government, ended slavery in the colony, and in 1804 established the republic of Haiti, the first independent black republic in the world (see Haitian Slave Revolt). The revolt frightened slaveholders everywhere, inspired other slaves and free blacks to action, and convinced religiously motivated whites that only peaceful emancipation could prevent more bloodshed.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1846-1847
THURSDAY, December 24, 1846
Another member appeared, and took his seat, viz:
From the State of Illinois, Edward D. Baker.
The House resumed the consideration of the resolution offered yesterday by Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, and pending when the House adjourned; the question being on agreeing to the amendment thereto moved by Mr. Seaborn Jones, to strike out the words "two o'clock," and insert, in lieu thereof, "twelve o'clock and fifteen minutes."
Mr. Rathbun moved that the further consideration of the said resolution be postponed until to-morrow.
And the question being put,
It was decided in the affirmative.
On motion of Mr. Rathbun, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; and, after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Boyd reported thai the committee having, according to order, had the state of the Union generally under consideration, particularly the Message of the President of the United States, had come to no resolution thereon.
On motion of Mr. Vinton,
Ordered, That when the House adjourns to-day, it adjourn to meet on Monday next.
In pursuance of previous notice, Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll asked, obtained leave, and introduced a bill (No. 575) for the more easy ascertaining of the names of the owners of ships or vessels: which bill was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.(Five top Websites Revealed Click here NOW to Read More!)
On motion of Mr. Haralson,
Ordered, That leave be given to withdraw the papers in the case of E. Hardaway; and the same were withdrawn accordingly by Mr. Haralson.
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Dickins, their Secretary:
Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed the bill (557) entitled "An act for the admission of the State of Iowa into the Union."
The Senate, in pursuance of the joint rules of the two Houses, have appointed a Committee on Enrolled Bills on their part, consisting of Mr. Bright and Mr. Jarnagin.
And then he withdrew.
The Speaker laid before the House the following communication:
House of Representatives U. S., December 24, 1846.
Sir: I have the honor to announce that I have forwarded to his Excellency the Governor of the State of Illinois my resignation usa member of the House of Representatives, to take effect from the 15th of January, or sooner if my successor shall appear and take his seat.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
E. D. BAKER.
To the Hon. J. W. Davis, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Ordered, That the said communication laid upon the table.
The following petitions, memorials, and other papers, were laid on the Clerk's table under the 24th rule of the House, to wit:
By Mr. James McDowell: A petition, of citizens of Alexandria and Fairfax counties, in the State of Virginia, praying an appropriation for the purpose of repairing the Long bridge, on the Potomac river, at the city of Washington: which was referred to the Committee on PublicBuildings and Grounds.
By Mr. Harmanson: The petition of the heirs of Francois Grimillion--heretofore presented April 4, 1846;
Also, the petition of Marcus Fulton Johnson--heretofore presented June 10, 1846.
By Mr. Garvin: The petition of Sarah Shatto, heir of John Walker, deceased--heretofore presented March 27, 1846.
Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committees on Private Land Claims.
By Mr. Augustus A. Chapman: A petition of James Brownlee, sole heir of Alexander Brownlee, deceased, who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, praying that an act may be passed to authorize the Commissioner of Pensions to issue to him another land warrant, in lieu of one that has been lost: which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands.
By Mr. McLean: The petition of John McLean, one of the heirs of Moses McLean, deceased, who was a captain in the war of the Revolution--heretofore presented March 23, 1846: which was referred to the Committee, on Revolutionary Claims.
By Mr. Marsh: Papers in regard to the memorial of T. Gallushia, for the repeal of Peter L. Allen's pension: which was committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow, with bill No. 343.
By Mr. Crozier: The petition and papers relative to the payment of certain volunteers in the Florida war--heretofore presented February 3, 1840: which was referred to the Committee of Claims.
By Mr. Jams McDowell: A memorial of Margaret Gaither, Eliza McArdle, and Mary Ann Canfield, daughters and heirs of the late John Jacob Kern, of Alexandria, Virginia, praying indemnity for French spoliations prior to the year 1800: which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
By Mr. Thomasson: A memorial of citizens of the State of Kentucky, in favor of the Claim of Sutherland Mayfield.
By Mr. Grider: The petition and papers of Samuel M. Asbury--heretofore presented May 28, 1846.
Ordered, That said memorial and petition be referred to the Committee on-Invalid Pensions.
By Mr. Russell: A petition of George A. Standish, of Plattsburgh, New York, attorney for the heirs at law of Prudent La Jennesse, deceased, who was an officer of the American army in the war of the Revolution, praying for the arrears of pension to which their ancestor was entitled.
By Mr. Boyd: A petition of Benjamin Allen, senior, of Clarke county, and State of Kentucky, praying for a pension on account of his sufferings and for the loss of property taken by the Indians who killed his father in 1788.
By Mr. John H. Ewing: The petition of Mary Woods, widow of Hugh Woods, deceased--heretofore presented May 7, 1846;
