AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

In music class, we are sutdyng African-American music. We will listen work songs, spirituals, blues, ragtime and jazz. To understand them we have to know the terrible history of African-American people.
From 1500 to 1800 a lot of African people were kidnapped and forced to be slaves. African slaves were sold in American countties like Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil and United States.

Slaves were obligated to work in the worst jobs, mainly in the cotton and sugar fields. They were trated like animals, how if they were not human beings. African slaves had to forget their names, their religions and their culture.

During 19th Century, slavery was forbidden in American Countries. In United States, Abraham Lincoln was the president that freed thr slaves. Form then, African-American are free.

But they did not have the same rights, and suffered episodes of racism. It was necessary the fight of more perople, like Malcom X or Martin Luther King, to realise the civil equality.