Sunday, November 30, 2008

SS paper WHY PEOPLE AREN"T TREATED EQUALLY.BY EMMANUEL MCNEIL

I believe people aren’t treated equally because through out history, there has been injustice with certain races. In this research paper I will tell you how people were treated differently and how they were treated like garbage.
Throughout history, African American people have struggled to gain equality in America. For example ,some white slave owners imported blacks and used them as slaves. Most slave owners/masters kept their slaves from learning , reading and writing making them ignorant. They even have little kids working dangerous machines they have them loosing feet , arms and legs.
For example : In world war II, many Jewish people suffered greatly at the hands of some German people , simply because, some Germans believed that they were the master race and other races were inferior(all races were hated by German). In some parts of the world Jewish people are still struggling to gain equality.
Many people died in painful deaths for example: Gas chambers, gunshots and starvation. People even attempted to hide in secret compartments in the house for example: Ann Frank she wrote dairies to show us how people are not different.
Douglass continued traveling up to Massachusetts. There he joined various organizations in New Bedford, including a black church, and regularly attended abolitionist meetings. He subscribed to William Lloyd Garrison's weekly journal The Liberator, and in 1841 heard Garrison speak at a meeting of the Bristol Anti-Slavery Society. At one of these meetings, Douglass was unexpectedly asked to speak. After he told his story, he was encouraged to become an anti-slavery lecturer. Douglass was inspired by Garrison and later stated that "no face and form ever impressed me with such sentiments [of the hatred of slavery] as did those of William Lloyd Garrison." Garrison was likewise impressed with Douglass and wrote of him in The Liberator. Several days later, Douglass delivered his first speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society's annual convention in Nantucket. Then 23 years old, Douglass said later that his legs were shaking but he conquered his nervousness and gave an eloquent speech about his rough life as a slave.

In 1843, Douglass participated in the American Anti-Slavery Society's Hundred Conventions project, a six-month tour of meeting halls throughout the Eastern and Midwestern United States. He participated in the Seneca Falls Convention, the birthplace of the American feminist movement, and signed its Declaration of Sentiments.

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