The underground railway was a series of secret routes and safehouses (a secret place for sanctuary or suitable to hide persons from the law, hostile actors or actions, or from retribution, threats or perceived danger) in the US. They were established in the US during the early/mid 19th they were used by african american slaves to flee to free states or Canada, Some routes lead to Mexico or over the seas with the help from abolitionists who was a movement to help slaves flee. They were trying to end the slave trade in the US and the western europe. nearly 1,000 slaves per year escaped from slave-holding states using the Underground Railroad. Officials from free states were required to help slaveholders to recapture runaway slaves, but citizens and governments of many free states ignored the law, and the Underground Railroad thrived. The members of the movement only knew parts of the route in case of infiltration. So when they moved across America,  they were handed over to other members of the movement. at least 30.00 slaves escaped to canada (potentially more) 

About four out of eight Native Americans in the reservations is unemployed and those who are working are often making under the poverty wage. All in all, almost 30% of Native Americans live under the poverty line and for those living in the reservations, the number is a lot higher. 

There is a wait-list for getting a house in the reservations, but they are very long, which also results in the houses being very overcrowded, because many families take in other people who need it and it is also not uncommon that tree or more generations live together in very small houses. In the houses, there often isn’t water, electricity or phones, because the Native Americans can’t afford it. 

The Native Americans also have their own health care. It is very underfunded though and covers only about 60% of their health needs. The big pressure on the Native Americans to live more by the Western-lifestyle, has resulted in diseases like diabetes, heart diseases, cancer and more, which this population group, previously wasn’t as exposed to and susceptible to. 

Heart diseases is the biggest death cause for Native Americans. They have double the chance of dying from diabetes than white Americans and a higher percentage of Native Americans also die from suicide than the white Americans. The death rate for newborns is also 60% higher for Native Americans than white Americans.

During the 1950’s the American government forced a lot of Native Americans to move from their reservations/tribal lands to urban areas and become more productive members of society.

Of the 78% of Native Americans not living in the reservations, 92% of these live in the big cities or the suburbans.

Jobs not paying the Native Americans much mixed with the higher expenses in the big cities, resulted in a lot of the Native Americans being very poor and suffering more from homelessness, orphanage, traumas and more. In 1968 the organization American Indian Movement was made to fight for the rights of the Native Americans and thus the “Native Middle Class” was made. 

A lot of the younger Native Americans in the big cities grows up in foster care and misses the feeling of belonging and being surrounded by their own culture, like the kids in the reservations. To fit better into the culture of the big cities a lot of the young Native Americans transition themselves and begin to act and think differently. A lot of the Native Americans, who has moved to the big cities after living in the Native-community is nor used to taxes, jobs and other materialistic stuff having such big roles, which haven’t had such a big meaning to them previously.

Americans exchanged goods for people with African traders along long stretches of West and Central Africa, even to Madagascar and southeastern Africa. But most Africans boarded slave ships in six distinct regions of the African coast. During the course of the transatlantic slave trade, nearly half of all Africans were taken from West-Central Africa called Congo and Angola today. Owners of slave ships did their best to hold as many enslaved people as possible by cramming, chaining, and selectively grouping slaves to maximize space and make travel more profitable. This caused alot of them to die, before even reaching their destination (Picture) The people on board were treated butally, and not like human but more like animals. Dead, sick or dying people were thrown overboard. Most of the time the slaves were pinned to the floor as there was nos pace for anything. Women and children had an area for themselves with limited ”freedom” but they where exposed to sexual or violent abuse. The slaves were fed twice a day