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Based on the lives and actions of Jones and Wheatley and their contemporaries, what different choices did African Americans make when identifying themselves, their causes, and their relationships with other African Americans and with whites during and after the American Revolution? How would you characterize the impact of the American Revolution on African Americans?
In the essay describing the life of Absalom Jones, the author Gary Nash portrays how the American Revolution changed the lifestyles of African Americans especially those in Philadelphia at the time of the Revolution. ... As the war broke out their were even more casualties to African Americans, to only about 9000 remained in Philadelphia. These circumstances off set a change in slave ownership and furthermore the view of African Americans. ...
After the Revolution the preconceptions about African Americans being inferior was still prevalent. White oppression stemmed from the non education of African Americans and traditions of old as blacks were slaves to the white man for centuries. Religion being an example, of the white opinion, that African Americans were incapable of surviving without white authoritative rule.
Approximate Word count = 810
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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