Slavery
Hello there ! , and welcome back to my blog. In this post I will tell
you what I've been doing this weekend . I was at a museum in NYC , just to take
a look around. I had heard from soo many friends who had been in NYC that it
was a very good museum there, which I should check out. So I decided to take a
free day to check out the museum.
When I got in there was it soo
much I wanted to check out right away , they had a lot of interesting stuff. Then
I noticed that there were many people who had gathered around a stage. I was
very curious , so I went to the scene to check out what they were doing. When I
got closer did it became very quiet and I realized later that it was an old man
sitting on a chair and talked about the terrible slavery in 1700s. And these
are just some of the things he was talking about. There he started to talk
about a little bit about that African slaves were caught in their own villages
and sent by ships across the Atlantic. It is estimated that 70 ,000 slaves were
sold to the Americas annually.
A lot of slaves died when they
were crossing the Atlantic. It is said that 200 slaves died out of every 1000
who crossed the Atlantic. Usually a trip from Africa to America took like 30 –
50 days. Many slaves tried to commit suicide in horrible ways. Diseases could The
slaves went through starvation , torture , filth , injustice , and so many
other horrors that is it amazing any survived. The ones who did survive were
brought to slave markets . In the markets , the slaves were sold in auctions or
just by having a fixed price. Once they were sold, they were under complete control by their
owners. Most slaves were sent to work on plantations in Brazil , the Caribbean ,
or the South. Many plantations produced cotton and tobacco with one hundred or
more slaves working on the land. The slaves had no freedom , many people argue
that they had better working conditions than other free people. The shelters
the slaves inhabited were only good enough to keep the slaves alive. The slaves
lived in small wood and dirt huts with cracks in the walls , allowing the wind
and rain to enter. Inside contained basic furniture with a kitchen shared by a
few slave families. They were treated very badly.
When the man had finished his speech about slavery so I thought about
how horrible these slaves experienced this. Now
the man had a new talk ready again, and it was about immigration. I was interested
in what he had to tell so I decided to stay , and listen to he’s talk.
Immigration
At the start he was telling us the history of immigration to the United
States. The history of immigration to the United States deals with the movement
of people to the United States since the first European settlements In about
1600. Starting around 1600 British and other Europeans settled primarily on the
east coast. Later the African people were brought as slaves. The United States experienced
successive waves of immigration which rose and fell over time , particularly
from Europe , with the cost of transoceanic transportation sometimes paid by
travelers becoming indentured servants after their arrival in the New World. At
other times , immigration rules became more restrictive. With the ending of
numerical restrictions in 1965 and the advent of cheap air travel immigration
has increased from Asia and Latin America.
After he had talked about immigration in general, then he began to talk
about immigration from Norway, which was a little surprising.
Norwegian Americans are Americans of Norwegian descent. Norwegian
immigrants went to the United States primarily in the later half of the 19th
century and the first few decades of the 20th century. There are more than 4.5
million Norwegian Americans according to the most recent U.S. Census, and most
live in the Upper Midwest. Norwegian Americans currently comprise the 10th largest
White American ancestry group.
Norsemen from Greenland and Iceland were the first Europeans to reach
North America. Leif Ericson reached North America via Norse settlements in
Greenland around the year 1000. Norse settlers from Greenland founded the settlement
of L'Anse aux Meadows in Vinland, in what is now Newfoundland, Canada. These
settlers failed to establish a permanent settlement because of conflicts with
indigenous people and within the Norse community.
The last thing he had from his speech on immigration was on Ellis
Island.
Ellis Island opened in 1892 as a federal immigration station, a purpose
it served for more than 60 years (it closed in 1954). Millions of newly arrived
immigrants passed through the station during that time–in fact, it has been
estimated that close to 40 percent of all current U.S. citizens can When Ellis
Island opened, a great change was taking place in immigration to the United
States. As arrivals from northern and western Europe – Germany, Ireland,
Britain and the Scandinavian countries–slowed, more and more immigrants poured
in from southern and eastern Europe. Among this new generation were Jews
escaping from political and economic oppression in czarist Russia and eastern
Europe (some 484,000 arrived in 1910 alone) and Italians escaping poverty in
their country. There were also Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Serbs, Slovaks and
Greeks, along with non-Europeans from Syria, Turkey and Armenia. The reasons
they left their homes in the Old World included war, drought, famine and
religious persecution, and all had hopes for greater opportunity in the New
World. trace at least one of their ancestors to Ellis Island.
Now he finished both his lectures on immigration and slavery. Today I
had learned a lot about both topics and was really happy. But now I knew that
it had tasted with a good lunch so I trudged out the museum cheerful and happy.
