The history of our ancestors

The next day, Pinkie Pie came into school, for today was a very special day, today was a day of celebration, today was a day of feasting.

For Daisy and the students were going to learn about history, specifically their ancestors.

Daisy came into the classroom with a smile on her face, she sat down at her desk.

"Good morning, students today we will be learning about our ancestors" Daisy piped.

"Good morning, Ms. Daisy" all of the students except for Rainbow said in unison.

"Very good then let's begin shall we" Pinkie piped.

"Our ancestors built very nice buildings back in 1200 A. D, and one of those tribes was called the Maya's" Daisy read from a book.

"Now, who can tell me why the Maya's all died?" Daisy continue to speak.

Applejack raised her hand.

"Yes Applejack" Daisy said.

"Well, I don't know much about history but, I believe the reasons that the Mayans have died is because Spanish soldiers came and killed all of the Mayans" Applejack said proudly.

"That is very good, Applejack" Daisy said proudly.

"That is correct is the reason the Mayans died was because of the Spanish people, the Spanish people came on one fateful day and slaughtered all of the Mayans" Daisy said.

"That time was a very dark time, because the Spanish killed everyone of the Mayans" Pinkie said to standing up.

"Well, looks like we have a little history nerd with us here" Daisy said plugged in at Pinkie.

"And then there came a Great War, and a lot of people died" Angela said reading from a book.

"Very good Angela" Daisy said to Angela.

"Now we will talk about the days of slavery" Daisy said with a solemn expression on her face.

"I must warn you this is a really sad story" Daisy continue speaking.

"We completely understand that" Pinkie said.

"Slavery is a force system of labor, in America slavery began in the 17th Century, when people were brought from Africa to America to become slaves" Daisy exclaimed.

"And they needed a lot of slaves so they had a lot of slaves pick the cotton" Pinkie explained.

"Let's not forget slaves that they were also like to hit very badly, and they will also not allowed to marry" Roberto said.

"Yes that is correct" Daisy said with a grin.

"In 1849, Tubman became ill again, which diminished her value as a slave. Edward Brodess tried to sell her, but could not find a buyer. Angry at him for trying to sell her and for continuing to enslave her relatives, Tubman began to pray for her owner, asking God to make him change his ways. She said later: "I prayed all night long for my master till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me." When it appeared as though a sale was being concluded, "I changed my prayer," she said. "First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way. A week later, Brodess died, and Tubman expressed regret for her earlier sentiments, as in many estate settlements, Brodess's death increased the likelihood that Tubman would be sold and her family broken apart. His widow, Eliza, began working to sell the family's slaves. Tubman refused to wait for the Brodess family to decide her fate, despite her husband's efforts to dissuade her. There was one of two things I had a right to, she explained later, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other" Pinkie said.

"So does anyone understand what I'm saying" Pinkie continued speaking.

"Yes we do understand what you are saying" The students said in unison.

"Very good then" Pinkie remarked.

“Louisiana was founded as a French colony. Colonial officials in 1724 implemented Louis XIV of France's Code Noir, which regulated the slave trade and the institution of slavery in New France and French Caribbean colonies. This resulted in a different pattern of slavery in Louisiana, purchased in 1803, compared to the rest of the United States. As written, the Code Noir gave some rights to slaves, including the right to marry. Although it authorized and codified cruel corporal punishment against slaves under certain conditions, it forbade slave owners to torture them or to separate married couples (or to separate young children from their mothers). It also required the owners to instruct slaves in the Catholic faith.

Together with a more permeable historic French system that allowed certain rights to gens de couleur libres (free people of color), often born to white fathers and their mixed-race concubines, a far higher percentage of African Americans in Louisiana were free as of the 1830 census (13.2% in Louisiana compared to 0.8% in Mississippi, whose population was dominated by white Anglo-Americans. Most of Louisiana's "third class" of free people of color, situated between the native-born French and mass of African slaves, lived in New Orleans).The Louisiana free people of color were often literate, had gained education, and a significant number owned businesses, properties, and even slaves. The Code Noir forbade interracial marriages. However, interracial unions were widespread under the system known as placage. The mixed-race offspring (cf. creoles of color) from such unions were among those in the intermediate social caste of free people of color. The English colonies insisted on a binary system, in which mulatto and black slaves were treated equally under the law, and discriminated against equally if free. But many free people of African descent were mixed race.

When the US took over Louisiana, Americans from the Protestant South entered the territory and began to impose their norms. They officially discouraged interracial relationships (although white men continued to have unions with black women, both enslaved and free.) The Americanization of Louisiana gradually resulted in a binary system of race, causing free people of color to lose status as they were grouped with the slaves. They lost certain rights as they became classified by American whites as officially black” Daisy announced.

Then the bell rang.

“Class is dismissed” Daisy announced to the class.

“Oh and also don’t we have homework to do?” Pinkie asked.

“Yes that is correct your homework for today is to go on the Internet and list all of the famous people that were black” Daisy announced to the class.

Daisy was passing out the homework sheets.

Author's Note

The reason I wrote this chapter was because I watched a history documentary.

Actually I got some of this from Wikipedia because I didn’t know how to write it/