AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

In music class, we are studying African-American music. We will listen work songs, spirituals, blues, ragtime and jazz. To understand them we have to know terrible history of  Africa-American people.
From 1500 to 1800 a lot of African people were kidnapped and forced to be slaves. African slaves were sold in American countries like Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil, and USA.

Picture of Triangular Commerce:

Video from AMISTAD part 1:

Video from AMISTAD part 2:

Slaves were obligated to work in the worst jobs, mainly in the cotton and sugar  fields. They were treated like animals, how if they were not human beings. African slaves had to forget their names, religions and their culture.

PICTURE OF AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN SLAVES:

During 19th Century, slavery was forbidden in America countries. In USA, Abraham Lincoln was a president that freed the slaves. From them, African-American are free.

picture of Abraham Lincoln:

But they did not have the same rights, and suffered episodes of racism. It was necessary the fight of more people, like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King, to realize the civil equality.

Picture of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King:

But, have the racism in the world disappeared?