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' 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
1 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
