For decades, African Americans have been on a racial...

For decades, African Americans have been on a racial discrimination and extremely deadly roller coaster ride for justice and equality. In this new day and age, racial tendencies and prejudice has improved since the 1700-1800s,however, they are slowly going back to certain old ways with voting laws and restaurants having the option to serve blacks or not. It all began with the start of slavery around 1619. The start of the New World, the settlers needed resources England and other countries had, which started the Triangle Trade. The New England settlers manufactured and shipped rum to West Africa; West Africa traded slaves to the West Indies for molasses and money . From the very beginning, they treated African Americans like an object or†¦show more content†¦On their way there, it was said that they killed sixty whites before being overwhelmed by local whites and a militia and lost their lives. After the capture, trial, and death by hanging of Nat Turner, many southern state s started to increase and stricter their slave laws to prevent this from happening again (Black History Milestones). This is just a small spark to a fight for abolition and the Underground Railroad to freedom. An early abolition movement in the North, by slaves wanting to liberate themselves and Quakers who opposed slavery and their moral beliefs, started but soon decline when slaves were part of the economic solution to work in the cotton fields. On the other hand, a reaction towards congress passing the Fugitive Slave Act started a new abolition movement. William Lloyd Garrison was one of the crusaders for this movement. He was a journalist from Massachusetts who founded an abolitionist newspaper The Liberator in 1831 and was an antislavery activist (Black History Milestones). Another abolitionist was Frederick Douglass; he launched his own abolitionist newspaper in 1846 (Brunner). Fighting to stop slavery was not the only thing people tried to do. Free blacks and antislavery Nort herners began to help slaves escape their owners in the South to the North with an intricate, labyrinth escape route to