In the US it is very common to still hear of the poor way African Americans were treated in the early part of this nations History. We hear stories of black slaves working 18 hour days picking cotton and the trauma of slaves being beaten for disobeying their masters. For many African American families, it seems, that was the way of life not long ago. While it is very important to realize what these African Americans …showed first 75 words of 2173 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2173 total…realize how terrible the actions that took placve really were. It is important to be able to sympaphize with the indigenous people of Central and South America. The drastic decline of those people in the 16th and 17th centuries is visible today in the loss of the indigenous cultures of Latin America. While it is not possible to get back what we have lost it is possible to prevent loosing anything that precious ever again.