Boys played the female roles in Shakespeare's plays when the plays were first produced because women did not perform in the theater during that era. Acting was not considered a reputable profession, and women typically stayed away from this type of work.
The black ships were given this name because the vessels were black as they were older and black smoke would rise from the coal-fired steam engines of the American ships.
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Africans were forced into brutal labor by Belgian rulers to collect rubber, leading to millions of deaths
Explanation:
Under the rule of Belgium, with King Leopold II as its head, the Congo Free State, roughly on the territory of modern day DR Congo, had suffered immensely. Initially, the colony was not barely sustainable, always being on the verge of bankruptcy, but that all changed with the sudden big demand fro rubber. The Congo Basin had loads of it, and the Belgians intended to use that to make profit. The native population was quickly mobilized and was forced to brutal labor force, being constantly tortured, mutilated, beaten up, given only so much food so that they can barely survive to work the next day. This, combined with other factors, led to lot of deaths, the numbers vary anywhere from one to fifteen million deaths. Understandably, the native people rebelled against this, and it turned out to be a long and bloody conflict, where the end result was just more deaths.
Hyppolite is from Haiti and she describes her home as full of people who are polite and concerned. He talks about how when you ask for directions in Haiti, they readily tell you where it is and explain more about the place. When you also talk about your place in Haiti, it is an interesting topic to follow Haitians.
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Marcus Garvey, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association, is known for all of the following except a) promoting the resettlement of American blacks in Africa b) establishing the idea of the talented tenth to lead African-Americans c) cultivating feelings of self-confidence and self-reliance among blacks d) being sent to prison after a conviction for fraud e) promoting black-owned businesses
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