Description : Did African Americans own slaves?
Last Answer : Before the Civil War, some free African Americans owned slaves and a few also employed white people. They did this because it was in their economic interest to do so.
Description : African Americans: How does it feel to come from a heritage where there were slaves in your ancestry in the U.S.A.?
Last Answer : answer:I don't know if your question is specifically directed toward African Americans because that is exclusively your area of interest, or because it seems like the easiest demographic to tap into on a ... into slave labor, and my life has been touched by these stories on a very personal level.
Description : How do west African slaves change the Americans?
Last Answer : Need answer
Description : How many African slaves traded to europeans and Muslims merchant in Africa?
Description : What cultural institutions did African-American slaves develop to embrace to help cope with their enslavement?
Description : How did the West African slaves traders usually obtain the slaves they sold to Europeans?
Last Answer : The slaves that West African slave traders sold to Europeanswere usually captured in war.
Description : How might African American in the free states to the closest to the south be affected by the growing slaves in the States near them?
Last Answer : Feel Free to Answer
Description : What Europeans were the first to import African slaves as labor to work on their plantations?
Last Answer : What is the answer ?
Description : What two European countries first used African slaves in 1400's and 1500's for their sugar plantations?
Description : Did Sugar African slaves rum tobacco and molasses formed a triangular system of trade connecting the Caribbean with?
Description : How did European get slaves before Portugal established trading posts along the west African coast?
Last Answer : Through slave traders who brought slaves through the Saharadesert to the Mediterranean Sea.
Description : Which statement best describes the treatment of African slaves during the Middle Passage?
Last Answer : Europeans had little regard for slaves' lives and treated them terribly.
Description : Who brought the first group of African slaves to the Americas nd Caribbean region?
Last Answer : the first African slaves in the New World were brought toHispaniola in the early 16th century by their Spanishmasters...Hope this helps :)
Description : Which of these statements about the lives of African slaves in America is true?
Last Answer : Killing your own slaves was not a crime.
Description : How many African slaves were brought to America?
Last Answer : 4 million
Description : In this Twilight Zone scenario where present-day white Americans wake up one day owning black slaves again, what do you think will happen?
Last Answer : Instant uprising?
Description : Which action by congress required americans to return runaway slaves to their owners?
Last Answer : the fugitive slave law
Description : Why do most African Americans have a lighter skin tone?
Last Answer : Than…? People from Africa get more, and harsher exposure to sun than Americans. Jamaica, the Bahamas, England, dark skinned people can be found worldwide who are lighter than persons living in Africa.
Description : Do you think the term “black” will be an outdated way to refer to African-Americans in the near future?
Last Answer : I don't know and I don't care. Most of them don't even have 1% African in them, after generations of being born in America. If they are people from Africa, then yeah, I'd call them African ... IMO, calling someone black is the same as saying Asain. It's a describing word and it's not offensive.
Description : Can African Ancestry really tell which African country an African American's ancestry is from?
Last Answer : Probably not. Keep in mind Africa’s political instability. Those countries may be long gone.
Description : Do African Americans who use the "n-word" perpetuate racism?
Last Answer : I don’t know the answer to this question, and I don’t feel comfortable even attempting to speculate. I know that I cringe when anyone uses that word, I don’t care about the context.
Description : Why is that I don't see a lot of African-Americans on the beach?
Last Answer : I just checked and apparently the City of San Diego is only 6.7% black or African-American. That's not a lot of black people for a city the size of San Diego. Do you think, do you see that ... African-American? It may be nothing more than a matter of demographics. Or it could be a number of things.
Description : How did the African-Americans escape detection on the Underground Railroad?
Last Answer : Harriet Tubman (Not sure if I spelled her name right?) helped them cross didn’t she ?
Description : Why is there a such high volume of Welsh surnames among African-Americans?
Last Answer : Make up your mind! Welsh? Or Welch? I suppose if they are borrowing names from masters, it could be considered welching? Quick, fix it before editing time runs out!
Description : Why do most of the people in urban areas who eschew the sidewalk seem to be African-Americans?
Last Answer : I’d love to know the answer… I notice this all the time in my town.
Description : Why did 70% of African Americans back Prop. 8?
Last Answer : Another shiny new account asking a contentious question. Find an article that can offend both Gays AND Black people and you are in troll heaven. All the same person, or is school out?
Description : How many African-Americans can trace their roots and create a family tree which includes their ancestors in Africa?
Last Answer : I’d be interested, but my roots are too mangled to ever really uncover. I’m kind of cool with that though, as much as it goes against european sensibility
Description : Are there any films featuring African Americans as IT professionals?
Last Answer : Office Space?
Description : Do black citizens of other countries refer to themselves as African-Germans, African-Brasilians, etc. as we do African-Americans?
Last Answer : I believe they refer to themselves in the local language. They also need to be African.
Description : Which city in northern Virgina has the most African-Americans?
Last Answer : answer:I don’t know this for a fact, but it is my belief that the US Bureau of the Census can give you a breakdown that you want. Good luck with your research. August 29, 2008, 10:05 PM EDT
Description : What was true about african americans during the war?
Last Answer : Apex : they joined the northern forces in great numbers
Description : Which group of enslaved African Americans were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation?
Last Answer : None. The emancipation proclamation said that it freed the slaves in the south but what if someone far away from you said they wanted you to mail your life savings to them or else they would pitch a fit would you do it?
Description : What was the most important gain for African Americans in the South after the Civil War?
Last Answer : access to education
Description : How did members of the Ku Klux Klan try to intimidate African Americans?
Last Answer : they used violence
Description : What was the political party of most of the African Americans elected to public office during Reconstruction ?
Last Answer : The Republican Party.
Description : Why did African Americans abandon their long association with the Republican Party in favor of the Democratic party?
Description : Why did many African Americans move to the plains?
Last Answer : beacusethey didnt like the laws there
Description : What kind of discrimination did African Americans Mexicans Americans and Asian Americans face during this period?
Description : What did African Americans seeking free land in the Midwest?
Last Answer : a waiting period before land ownership.competition by whites.discrimination by whites
Description : What did Frederick Douglass have on the fight for African Americans right?
Description : What were disadvantages of the African Americans that fought in the civil war?
Last Answer : i wish i knew
Description : What was Lincoln's position on the issue of the suffrage for African Americans?
Last Answer : Environmental justice is the equal protection of all people withrespect to environmental issues.
Description : What did president grant help pass to prevent southerners from using fear to African Americans out of the political process?
Last Answer : President Grant helped to pass The Enforcements Act to preventSoutherners from using fear to shut African Americans out of thepolitical process.
Description : How were African Americans treated while serving the union military?
Last Answer : *they were assigned the most dangerous tasks.*
Description : How did the freedman bureau help African Americans economically?
Last Answer : they provided schools to educate workers
Description : Why did large numbers of African Americans migrate from the South to the North during the early 1900?
Last Answer : Racial discrimination in the South, job opportunities in theNorth.
Description : How did Brooker T Washington differ from other African Americans?
Last Answer : He was a leader.
Description : What did Booker T. Washington urged African Americans to do what?
Last Answer : Work hard and achieve economic success
Description : What idea did W E b. Du Bois put forward as a way for African Americans to improve their condition?
Last Answer : They should be led by the "Talented Tenth."
Description : How did African Americans escape the south during World War 2?
Last Answer : In the 1940's there was no slavery so they didn't have toescape. They just moved if they wanted to live in anotherplace.