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Assignment:
What are the most important things the Black Founders did in their efforts to achieve freedom and equality for African Americans in the United States? Why were those things to important?
Carefully review the module page titled Black Founders. Consider the historical context you have learned so far about the formation of the United States. Also consider the challenges faced by the Black Founders in the new United States.
The best responses will go beyond simply summarizing what a few Black Founders did during their lives. Instead, the strongest responses will consider the Black Founders presented as a group. What things did they do as a group that was so important? Yes, discuss at least three things they did as a group. Yes, talk about individuals and the specifics of their lives within each thing they did.
Some considerations that might help you gather the information needed to complete this assignment:
- Review the module materials chapter carefully.
- Review the page on Black Founders carefully.
- Consider the various challenges faced by African Americans in the United States:
- Ninety percent of African Americans in the United States were enslaved
- Free African Americans faced limitations to their civil, social, and economic liberties
- Slavery had been practiced for thousands of years in most societies in the world
- was practiced in many societies in the world at that time
This assignment should be a minimum of 500 words. Feel free to write more if this is something you really want to dig into.
How to informally cite your evidence:
You can identify where you found information by adding in parens some basic information such as (Chap. 3 pg. 27) or ("Title of Primary Source," paragraph 4). We are not using formal citations in our course, but we need enough details to find the information ourselves.