Starting in 1619, Africans suffered greatly to obtain their current title of African-Americans. They were taken (kidnapped) from their families, from their loved ones, in Africa and forced to become slaves. Many of them were also sold into slavery by the beloved corrupt leaders of their own tribes. Over the years, an estimated total of 29-31 million slaves were packed onto slave ships bound for America, where millions of them died of disease, starvation, and suicide along the way. These are only estimates because the captors did not value the lives of innocent slaves enough to keep records of their expendable "cargo." Aside from these tremendous adversities, my ancestors endured and were then exposed to the American idea of ​​the “Land of the Free.” Slaves were not considered people who were simply “objects” to be bought and sold to anyone at auction. Families would be spat upon and separated at auctions, leaving boys without fathers, daughters without mothers. These “objects” had no rights if you were black, man or woman, your only right was to be mistreated, abused and discriminated against...