The history of the seventeenth to the nineteenth century is dominated by the forming and maintaining of empires. Countries such as America and Australia immediately come to mind when these imperialist empires are considered, yet their influence was seen on a much broader scale than more well-known a...

When people think "slavery", they view it as the dehumanizing and degradation of the African race solely because of the color of their skin. People do not see that there were profits to be made with our African ancestors. In the eighteenth century, our ancestors were stripped of their name, and th...

Before one can appropriately discuss the validity of this claim one must first establish and comprehend what was colonialism, what were the social, economic, political, and cultural models instituted during and after colonialism. One must also have an understanding of the history of the Caribbean i...

Why do people fight? Does anything good ever come from it? Who usually wins? The aggressor or assailed? Neither, it's whichever believes that in choosing to fight, that the victory would be assured to them. The cause fought for is only right to those who chose to fight for it. Every person wants to ...

Apartheid-The segregation of people by skin color.“Cry freedom cry. From deep inside, where we are all confined.” These words by singer/songwriter Dave Matthews establishes the fact that apartheid, separation of the races, was in fact, a very real thing in South Africa. The natives of...

A House Divided exhibition in the Chicago Historical Society Museum is a showcase of the causes and components of the Civil War. However, most importantly this exhibit places slavery, the "peculiar institution," as the root cause for this devastating domestic war that erased more than 600,000 New W...

Survival of the fittest- Justification of African American's continued use of unorthodox medicine The science of medicine and the practice of medicine after slavery have been an evolving and dynamic series of events. After slavery ended, the majority of African Americans held fast to their ...

Civil War Before the civil war that tore the fabric of American life, there were three sections of American people with different economic, cultural and political attitudes. The balance of power was kept by different alliances, which came up in the pre-civil war period. The west was the balancing po...

CIVIL WARSectionalismBefore the civil war that tore the fabric of American life, there were three sections of American people with different economic, cultural and political attitudes. The balance of power was kept by different alliances, which came up in the pre-civil war period. The west was the b...

From years 1505 to 1870, the world underwent the largest forced migration in history. West Africa was soon to be convulsed by the arrival of Europeans and become the advent of the transatlantic slave trade. Ships from Europe, bound for America, appeared on the horizon, and their captains and sailor...

Millions of Africans died in slave ships en route from Africa to America. A lifetime of bondage awaited those who survived the trip. This crime against a people-enslavement, exploitation, of millions of Africans is an American tragedy at its highest level. The legacy of slavery continues to bind ...