Hi, need to submit a 2000 words paper on the topic How have African-Americans worked to end segregation, discrimination, and isolation to attain equality and civil rights.

Hi, need to submit a 2000 words paper on the topic How have African-Americans worked to end segregation, discrimination, and isolation to attain equality and civil rights. The early 17th century marks the start of slavery in the US. North America was pretty heavily populated with the European settlers who had migrated to America to earn their living. These Europeans settlers preferred to transform themselves into the African slaves in order to adopt a source of living that is not only cheaper, but a plentiful way of doing labor. This evoked the desire in the hearts of many able men and women to migrate to America and indulge in slavery. Many historians claim that nearly 6 million highly competent slaves were brought from abroad especially from Africa to America in the 18th century (Griffin, 2009, 605).

During the 18th century, most of the black slaves worked on the tobacco and rice plants, located near the southern coast. Many colonists claim that after the American Revolution, the black slaves in America were overpowered by the British in order to abolish slavery in the Unites States. However, as the war ended, the new American constitution counted every slave in the country as three-fifths of a person with the intention of taxation and ensuring the right to seize ‘any person who is acquired for labor or other services’.

The number of slaves in America began to reduce in the late 18th century due to shortage of lands required for growth of tobacco. Due to this terrible exhaustion of tobacco plants, an economic crisis hit the South. During this period, textile industries were rapidly growing in the Britain and the demand for cotton reached its zenith. The textile industries in the Britain demanded the American cotton for speedy growth of these industries. Unfortunately, growth of American cotton was restricted in America due to difficulty of elimination of seeds from raw fibers of cotton by hand. This problem was sorted out in 1793 by a young school teacher, Eli Whitney, who invented a machine known as cotton gin for easy removal of seeds (Griffin, 2009, 598).