a few options
a. you could ignore them (probably don't do this)
b. pretend they are someone you like
c. just figure out how to respect them without trying to have full conversations
A. with captured Africans who were brought as slaves
During that time period, certain African group leaders would conquer other African tribes and sell the members as slaves to Europeans, who then sold them to colonists in the Americas. These kidnapped Africans were then used to fill the need for labor on plantations, including sugar, in the Americas.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett ( 1862 – 1931) was an African American woman who was an investigative journalist and a leader of the civil rights movement in America. She displayed the unjust treatment of the blacks and especially the lynching of black people at that racially divided time. She was one of the founders of the NAACP.
<u>The unique challenges she faced in fighting for the rights of African American women:
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- Her newspaper and press were destroyed by a white mob
- She was continually threatened to be killed so she had to move from Memphis to Chicago
- She had to face public disapproval for her fight in the women’s suffrage movement
Chinese River Valley civilization<span>although it was from 8000 to 2000 BCE
They used the river for irrigation and they raised pigs and chickens. Used stone tools</span>
B. Free African Americans
Underground Railroad is a passage African Americans used to escape slavery.
