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September 11

At approximately 8:46 a.m. on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact left a gaping, burning hole near the 80th floor of the 110-story skyscraper, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping hundreds more in higher floors. As the evacuation of the tower and its twin got underway, television cameras broadcasted live images of what initially appeared to be a freak accident. Then, 17 minutes after the first plane hit, a second Boeing 767—United Airlines Flight 175—appeared out of the sky, turned sharply toward the World Trade Center, and sliced into the south tower at about the 60th floor. The collision caused a massive explosion that showered burning debris over surrounding buildings and the streets below. America was under attack.

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Citation Information

Article Title

Attack on the United States

AuthorHistory.com Editors

Website Name

HISTORY

URL

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/attack-on-america

Access Date

September 10, 2022

Publisher

A&E Television Networks

Last Updated

September 27, 2021

Original Published Date

November 24, 2009

Why this petition matters

Started by Dr. Dessie Sanders, D.H.L ; ABD-Ph.D., Hum

Traumatic Experience

Between 1501 and 1867, nearly 13 million African people were kidnapped, forced onto European and American ships, and trafficked across the Atlantic Ocean to be enslaved, abused, and forever separated from their homes, families, ancestors, and cultures.

The Middle Passage was the route taken by slave ships from Africa to the Americas.

It is estimated that between 10 and 20 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean during this time period.

The conditions on these ships were inhumane, with slaves being packed tightly into cramped quarters and subjected to disease, starvation, and abuse by their captors.

It was a traumatic experience and the trauma that slavery has caused, still has a devastating impact on many African Americans (the descendants of former African slaves of the North Atlantic Slave Trade) today.

The abduction, abuse, and enslavement of Africans by Europeans for nearly five centuries dramatically altered the global landscape and created a legacy of suffering and bigotry that can still be seen today.

Slavery & Human Trafficking
Throughout history and across continents, slavery was used as a way to obtain cheap labor by depriving human beings of their personal liberty and creating a dependent labor force that was legally viewed as the property of the slaveholder, despite the obvious and grievous violation of human rights that this practice entailed. The abolition movement in western Europe and the Americas began in the late 18th century and was chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade. Although slavery no longer exists as a legal phenomenon recognized by a political authority or government, human trafficking—a form of modern-day slavery that involves the illegal transport of individuals by force or deception for the purpose of labor, sexual exploitation, or financial gain—is a growing international phenomenon that affects people of all ages.

Although the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It ended slavery and began the long-term goal of achieving equality for all Americans. The amendment exempted from the involuntary servitude clause persons convicted of a crime, and persons drafted to serve in the military. Despite the 13th Amendment, vestiges of racial discrimination and inequality continued to exist in America well into the 20th century.

Americans Americans, (the decendents of former African slaves), have yet to be financialy compensated for their trauma since the North American Slave Trade.

According to Eric Lutz who is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, Ron DeSantis’s war on “wokeness” in schools ascended to dangerous new heights Wednesday, as Florida’s State Board of Education approved new African American studies curriculum standards that, among other things, would force public school students to learn about some of the supposed upsides of slavery — a whitewashing of history that the state’s largest teachers union decried as a “big step backward” for education.

Florida’s new African American studies curriculum standards is unconstitutional; it forces Educators of public schools to teach students about some of the supposed upsides of slavery, negatively impacts Africans and African Americas, and jeopardizes their human rights. Slavery, never benefited Africans or African Americans. They never agreed or volunteered to become enslaved or sign a binding contract to be owned by another race of people.

In all, the Middle Passage was the journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas. It was a brutal and deadly voyage that lasted for several weeks or months. At least 2 million Africans died during the Middle Passage, and another 15 to 30 percent died before or after the journey. This means that for every 100 enslaved Africans who reached the New World, another 40 had perished in Africa or on the way. This is a petition to remove Gov. Ron DeSantis, the Florida Board of Education, and eradicate Florida’s new African American studies curriculum standards, which will force public school teachers to teach students to learn about some of the supposed upsides of slavery. Gov. Ron DeSantis, the Florida Board of Education, and others who agree with this false narrative, can not change the truth about slavery in the United States of America.