Growing Up African American: Struggling Through the Legacy of Slavery and Jim Crow Segregation

I was born in a small Kentucky town named, “Richmond”. I had no concept of color or cultural differences during the first four years of my life. 

The one common background of African Americans is our Antebellum Slave heritage. Antebellum Slavery replaced the culture of African people brought into the system with a new aberrant slave culture. Remnants of this culture appear to exist in the modern African American culture due to the continued isolation of the culture during Jim Crow Se…