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Effects Of Discrimination On African Americans

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African Americans faced slavery and discrimination in many various ways. From living conditions to communities and families, they faced it in many ways. In regular living conditions, they were only allowed certain things. Men and woman were given a set of clothes they couldn´t lose. Children were given less clothes, if they lost those they would have to completely bare. They didn´t like this treatment of course, thus they found ways to resist. Some were somewhat trivial, like messing up food or ¨accidentally¨ ripping something. Others however, were much more dangerous, like poisoning food or setting fire to things. Leisure was also given to slaves. In this time, things like quilting bees and corn shucking events let everybody join in on the

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