That all men are created equal: That they are endowed by their creator With certain un-alienable rights And that among these is life, liberty And the pursuit of happiness." How true is this statement with regard to events in America?

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DANIEL SITARANJAN        -  -        ENGLISH

“ We hold these truths to be self evident

That all men are created equal:

That they are endowed by their creator

With certain un-alienable rights

And that among these is life, liberty

And the pursuit of happiness.”

How true is this statement with regard to events in America?

        Reading the statement and referring to all the evidence, I find the quote very, very hypocritical. It was only applied to the white people of America. The negro population was treated as if they were not humans. They were like outcasts and misfits, beaten and violently abused by their white owners. They had no privileges. Voting rights and education were only a few of the things that blacks were deprived of. The atrocious behaviour of the racists soon brought a confrontation. Peaceful protests and marches were held in around 1955 to stop the racial tension between blacks and whites. Martin Luther King used non-violent resistance, a tactic that he advocated during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Blacks all over America used non-violence to protest against racial discrimination and inequality.

My first piece of evidence shows the inhumanity of slavery. Father Josiah Henson was a slave who escaped to freedom in Canada. He told the people of the inhumanities and ruthless aggression him and his innocent family faced at an auction. His brothers and his sisters were all sold to different owners. His mother was then finally sold to a white plantation owner called Isaac Riley of Montgomery County. Young Josiah was then auctioned to the buyers. His mother pleaded with Riley to buy her son so that she could be close to at least one of her children on the plantation. She begged. Her arms around his knees. Instead Riley brutally

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Assaulted her with kicks and blows to the face and body. She was eventually forced to obey and crawl away from him.

All ready from the first piece of evidence we have witnessed an aggressive form of racism. Negro families were brought from Africa against their own free will. Cramped into soiled and poignant slave ships. On arriving they were auctioned to rich plantation owners wanting workers for their fields, they were checked and bought like livestock. Families were split up as you can see in the Henson situation. The mother was also mistreated. She pleaded at least ...

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