1.This piece is showing the war that blacks faced during the time both being in the war and coming back home. How they faced racism on homeland and yet facing the fight for democracy on the other.

2.It also goes to show how a land they are defending doesn’t even look at them as equals. African Americans could not catch a break no matter where they were.

3.This article showed me how even though lynching was could be looked at as dehumanizing and one of the many racial roots in the american tree that is deeply rooted in violence, and hate for the African American community.

4.Disfranchisement is played out as a deliberate method of systematic oppression. It keeps African Americans from having equal rights. Kind of like.

1. Education for African Americans was a way to keep the race oppressed. To keep the power in the hands of the white people. When one lacks knowledge they lack the ability to know what power they do have. Which in the long run can oppress generations to come out of generational wealth and so much more.

6.The Economic system in so many ways is rigged to keep African Americans from generational wealth, to keep them impoverished. Keeping them in the lower socio-economic class.

1. The power of the media and how it played and still plays a major role in how African Americans are viewed. Most of the time they share the media showing blacks in a negative light. Helping create negative stereotypes helps perpetuate the racial discrimination against Blacks.

2. As they had to fight back during slavery, after they were declared free in 1863. How they had to endure injustices, unequal treatment. Which led to the civil rights movement. Which gained some equalities but not quite all. To the present day where they still have to fight on a land that they were born on. To live in a country where you can be hated simply because you have more melanin in your skin. A nation that said “ One nation under God and indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” When that is not the case. We are still at war and the fight is nowhere near done.

"He [King George] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce."

This article is important because it shows the true greed that King George and others had when it came to currency and power. The human life was not in regard when it came to those he took and sold as goods.

"Decades later Jefferson blamed the removal of the passage on delegates from South Carolina and Georgia and Northern delegates who represented merchants who were at the time actively involved in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade."

The main argument of this document is trying to explain how slavery was more than free labor. It was a major part of the economy. The Atlantic slave trade was very lucrative. Therefore to put an end to slavery would put an end to the New world's economy.

Jefferson’s passage on slavery was the most important section removed from the final document. It was replaced with a more ambiguous passage about King George’s incitement of “domestic insurrections among us.”

The purpose of this document was to expose the many secrets that the nation tried to erase and bury. a lot like the missing passage of slavery that Thomas Jefferson wrote.

*THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE DEBATE OVER SLAVERY

When Thomas Jefferson included a passage attacking slavery in his draft of the Declaration of Independence it initiated the most intense debate among the delegates gathered at Philadelphia in the spring and early summer of 1776. *

This missing piece of history was written by Thomas Jefferson and debated in spring and early summer of