The African- American Experience – an overview

Basic ideas of the American Dream
- liberty
- reaching over goal
- equal rights, opportunity, protection
- living your dream
- ownership
- freedom
- social network
- friends and family
- go as far as you can
- pursuit of happiness
- fulfilling your potential
- creating a plan

1. Slavery
- first slavery in the early 1600s in America
- especially in the southern states (for tobacco, cotton, sugar cane)
- 650,000 Africans bought to North America by 1802
- American economy depended on slavery ( they came to work on the fields
- 4 mio. blacks slaves in the USA by 1860
- The slaves were property • The legal status of slaves - property - sold or wired …ver más…

Amendment 13
- they are not allowed to have slaves

Amendment 14
- liberty for slaves

Amendment 15
- they can vote

The black vote
- Farbige im Süden sind trotzdem nicht frei, sie wurden von den Weißen geschlagen
- Sie durften zwar wählen, mussten aber bestimmte Leute wählen, sonst wurden sie geschlagen
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