2262505294005 Essays - Barak, Barack Obama, Slavery,

2262505294005 Essay from slavery to barak obama 2466975173355 310070532956500-34099533972500457209240520 Bodadi Yasmina teacher: MRS Damaso School year : 2016-2017 ]1000000 Bodadi Yasmina teacher: MRS Damaso School year : 2016-2017 ] 1500505-9969500 INTRODUCTION First of all , I' d like to give my impression about the Black community in America. To introduce this big subject, I am going to focus on the most event to the black people and how it was a nightmare for them. Then I'd like to say how I feel about the dream of Martin Luther King. Finally, to deal with the reality, the arrival of Barak Obama . To explain the nightmarish period of the B lack community , I will define the word nightmare. In most cases nightmare is a dream arousing feelings of intense fear, horror and distress. Actually, the Black community has already gone through many painful situations. As it were, they were raped. Moreover, they had of course, no rights, they had been treated like animals , Undoubtedly, one could argue that it was a nightmare for black people. However, Martin Luther King had a dream that these four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colo ur of their skin but the content of their character. In fact, a dream is a series of images, ideas, emotions and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Actually, the dream of Martin Luther King shows great insight into the problem. Indeed, it should not be a dream, I personally think that it should be reality. Actually, all of these dreams were normal and must not be dream s . After all those years , we finally had a black president who was Barak Obama. But, we must bear in mind that it was thanks to the fight of Ma rt in Luther King and many events like the civil war and the abolition of slavery. Slavery was a terrible period to the Black community in the U. S.A . Undoubtedly we can argue that it was a period of nightmare .But to begin with ,I'd like to mention that Slavery has existed since the beginning of human history.People were enslaved for a number of reasons some of which include ;being captured in battle ,owing a debt or being born to slave parents. Besides, we must bear in mind that slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown ,Virginia in 1619 . They were sold to colonists. Apparently, they also forced to work without pay. It is incredible no? They must work without pay! Moreover s lavery was legal in all 13 c olonies . At any rate, What I find striking is that slavery was legal at that time ! 2326005211645500 Furthermore ,i n the early 17th century, European settlers turned to African slaves a cheaper more plentiful labor source than indentured servants.The internal slave trade as well as the transatlantic slave trade carried black people to American where they would work as slaves.6 to 7 million slaves were imported to the New World in the 18th century alone. He makes it quite clear that there was a lot of slaves at that time . In most cases ,s laves were used in order to speed up the process of the production of lucrative products such as tobacco and cotton. Especially throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the African-American slaves built up the economic foundation of America. . As it w ere they had been considered as slaves and animals . T hey were raped,. Indeed ,this picture is an accurate analysis of the situation .We can see in this picture that white police turn attack the black community with very vi olent dogs because they made a protest in Birmingham,Ala . However , it is interesting to note that slaves didn't just sit back and accept a life of servitude. Slaves resisted in a number of ways including; escaping, slowing down on the job, intentionally doing a job wrong or participating in violent rebellion. Nevertheless o ne of the most famous slave revolts occurred in Virginia . In 1831, Nat Turner led