Referat BLACK PEOPLE - Afro-American history

black people

'black' was an insult in former times people avoided the term 'black' in the late 60ies and 70ies: 'black is beautiful!' opinions are undergoing changes movements like 'black power' developed => very radical movement Malcolm X

there were times when you couldn't talk about 'negro' à from Latin word 'niger' the swearword 'nigger' developed

Afro-American history: talked about misconceptions concerning black resistance in the US slavery was an all-American problem slavery was exercised from North to South-America Brazil was a brutal slave-holding country for a very long time the slaves worked on sugar and cotton plantations there was humid climate

end of slavery => American Civil War: president A. Lincoln

11 pro-slavery states seceded from the Union Washington D.C. was situated on the Potomac-river (the border between N and S) North: was industrialized Puritan, business-orientated US part - South: a deeply rooted feudal society with big estates (gr. Ländereien) - the S became a strong rival for the N, because the S had people who worked for nothing

a lot of 'missing pages' in US history e.g. many Cowboys were black they sang religious songs (about Moses and the Bible); 'Ohio-River' Marc Twain there were also black Founding Fathers Chicago (at Lake Michigan) was founded of a black man

F. Douglas - 1895 - told the people: 'We must fight back!' he didn't accept the segregation (Rassentrennung) progress through struggle 'you cannot get crops without ploughing' (pflügen) - F. Douglas was a predecessor of Malcolm X