African American Struggle for Freedom

African-American Struggle for Freedom Beverly Garrett Axia College In the early nineteenth century, the African American went from slavery to the struggle for freedom. They had to do several activities in order to survive. Even though food affected the lifestyle during slavery, with religion, soul food like greens, and hamburger meat was prepared and grown to help families survive. There were several kinds of slaves during the nineteenth century. The African Americans were the most popular among all the slaves and had the hardest time for survival. They reported in mid-2003 that today: "Millions of men, women and children around the world are forced to lead lives as slaves. Although this exploitation is often not called slavery, the conditions are the same. People are sold like objects, forced to work for little or no pay and are at the mercy of their 'employers '....Women from Eastern Europe are bonded into prostitution, children are trafficked between West African countries and men are forced to work as slaves on Brazilian agricultural estates. Contemporary slavery takes various forms and affects people of all ages, sex and race."(Katz, Solomon H, Smith, Andrew). The European was the second set of slaves, which joined the African American to provide life for them and the African Americans. The African Americans made it easy for them to survive. They knew how to pray, how to get rivalry solved, and learned how to cook all parts of animals in order to have good dinner meals. [pic]

Group of “Contrabands” at a plantation.

The African American slaves were conditions to hard work for wages. They had to encounter many tasks in order to stay with their slave master’s. The slave master’s decided whether they had earned enough wages for a day’s meal or place to stay. Many of the slave master’s had