The Pros And Cons Of Oppression Of Jews And African Americans

How can two entirely different cultures end up being treated with the same disrespect? Jews and African Americans went through a time in their lives where they were deeply oppressed. The Jews lost their rights and were told what they can and cannot do they couldn’t go to school and they couldn’t drive cars or ride bikes for example. African Americans, unlike Jews who had these rights at the beginning of their oppression were never given these rights to begin with they had to earn them and it took a long time for them to do that. The Jews time of oppression had begun when Adolf Hitler came into power in 1933 they were slowly made to do things like wear the Star of David on their clothing and they were told what they could and could not do. Africans Americans were enslaved over in Africa and brought to American by ship where they were sold and made to work without rest and breed with women

In 1831 abolitionism and the underground railroad were created because of Nat Turner’s revolt. In 1857 the Dred Scott case occurred and the ruling was that all northerners were called to capture African Americans and return them to the South. In 1859 John Brown raided the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. In 1861 the Civil War began and Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation. After the Civil War African Americans started earning their freedoms back. Before the Civil War live was tough for African Americans, they were used as slaves working long hours a day without rest, they were bid on and sold like cattle, Wives and Husbands were separated and if they had children they were most of the time separated from them. They had little rest throughout the day, they had horrible living conditions and had little to no food. They had to do what the plantation owner said if not, then they would be whipped or put to