...Eduardo Angeles History 202A – 02 Dr. Dennis Freed Slaves As a result of the transatlantic slave trade coming to an end and the efforts of the American Colonization Society; the country of Liberia was founded by former slaves who were seeking settlement in Africa. Before the 1830s, those white Americans willing to contemplate an end to bondage almost always coupled calls for abolition with the colonization of freed slaves— their deportation to Africa, the Caribbean, Or Central America. In 1816, the proponents of this idea founded the American Colonization Society, which promoted the gradual abolition of slavery and the settlement of black Americans in Africa. It soon established Liberia on the coast of west Africa, an outpost of American influence whose capital, Monrovia, was named for Pres. James Monroe. (Foner, GML, 444) In the years preceding the Civil War, thousands of black Americans went to Liberia. Many of them were slaves emancipated by their owners on the condition that they depart, while others left voluntarily motivated by desire to spread Christianity in Africa or to enjoy rights denied them in the United States. (Foner, GML, 444) The ACS’s reasons for working to bring a halt to the slave trade had to deal with a humanitarian, social, and religious basis. Once the slave trade had ended, there was somewhat of a stigma that led people to believe that freed blacks in America were potentially harmful and dangerous for others. It was believed that...
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...Change does not happen overnight, especially when it involves breaking former beliefs and rules in a society. In pre-civil war America, slavery was part of the American culture and lifestyle. The reconstruction era was a period of rebuilding and reevaluating the foundation for the United States after the civil war. It was a buffer period that allowed for the fight for equal civil and political rights of African Americans to be introduced into a dominant white society. The events and values of Reconstruction did not dramatically transform African Americans lives at the time due to Black Codes, the fight for suffrage, and Jim Crow Laws. To undermine the legal status change of former slaves, states created the Black Codes. The thirteenth amendment...
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...black people. It was the first this kind of organization. Established in 1965 by the Congress, it’s aim was to help slaves who lacked food supplies, roof over the head and medical help. From the stars Bureau was intended to not last a long period of time, precisely only year and a half after the war ended, but rather focused on its effectiveness to provide better adjustment for former slaves. Its role was also to act as a conciliation bridge in moments of disagreement between former slaves and slave owners. A sketch titled The Freedmen's Bureau drawn by A.R. Waud (1868) [appendix] which was published in Harper’s Bazar represents...
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...fought brother and The Union had to fight to stay whole. Southern states believed in their right to own slaves and though Lincoln formally addressed that he would not interfere with that right, the southern population believed that Lincoln’s election would be, “the greatest evil that has ever befallen this country.” This wedge driven squarely at the Mason-Dixon line tore the United States in two, one half believing in slavery while the other half strongly opposing it. The social tensions between the north and the south began with the election of 1860. The south favored J. C. Breckenridge, while the north favored Abraham Lincoln. Anyone who knows anything about history knows that Lincoln won the 1860 election and became our 16th president. This enraged the south due to Lincoln’s view that slavery should not spread to the un-unionised territories, and so South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded from the union shortly after the election. This created a huge communal deviation, as former kinsmen, now turned foe, were locked in combat - The Union of the north and the Confederacy of the south. At the start of the war, no African Americans were allowed to fight for either side. A law passed in 1862, however, allowed them to fight for northern states, though after the war a larger scale enlistment process was implemented for African Americans. Also in 1862, the first draft laws were put into affect for the Confederate army. A similar law was passed...
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...fought brother and The Union had to fight to stay whole. Southern states believed in their right to own slaves and though Lincoln formally addressed that he would not interfere with that right, the southern population believed that Lincoln’s election would be, “the greatest evil that has ever befallen this country.” This wedge driven squarely at the Mason-Dixon line tore the United States in two, one half believing in slavery while the other half strongly opposing it. The social tensions between the north and the south began with the election of 1860. The south favored J. C. Breckenridge, while the north favored Abraham Lincoln. Anyone who knows anything about history knows that Lincoln won the 1860 election and became our 16th president. This enraged the south due to Lincoln’s view that slavery should not spread to the un-unionised territories, and so South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded from the union shortly after the election. This created a huge communal deviation, as former kinsmen, now turned foe, were locked in combat - The Union of the north and the Confederacy of the south. At the start of the war, no African Americans were allowed to fight for either side. A law passed in 1862, however, allowed them to fight for northern states, though after the war a larger scale enlistment process was implemented for African Americans. Also in 1862, the first draft laws were put into affect for the Confederate army. A similar law was passed...
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...governed, and social contracts developed during the Enlightenment, providing the intellectual underpinnings of the Atlantic revolutions. Q. What was revolutionary about the American Revolution, and what was not? • The American Revolution was revolutionary in that it marked a decisive political change. • It was not revolutionary in that it sought to preserve the existing liberties of the colonies rather than to create new ones. Q. How did the French Revolution differ from the American Revolution? • While the American Revolution expressed the tensions of a colonial relationship with a distant imperial power, the French insurrection was driven by sharp conflicts within French society. • The French Revolution, especially during its first five years, was a much more violent, far-reaching, and radical movement than its American counterpart. • The French revolutionaries perceived themselves as starting from scratch in recreating the social order, while the Americans sought to restore or build upon earlier freedoms. • Unlike the American Revolution, the French Revolution led to efforts to create a wholly new society, symbolized by such things as a new calendar, a new administrative system, and new street names. • The French Revolution also differed from the American Revolution in the way that its influence spread. At least until the United States...
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...seen in source A, was born in February 1817 although his exact date of birth remains unknown. He was born on the eastern shore of Maryland to his mother, Harriet Bailey was already a slave when she gave birth to Fredrick Douglass, making him be born into slavery. He was separated from her at the early age of 7 years old. As a slave, Douglass was not allowed to have much of a as he became a slave so young. He was separated from his parents, and forced to work hard and suffered harsh treatment while working for Captain Aaron Anthony. Although he was then shipped off to work for a man named Hugh Auld and his family. Mrs. Auld was a northerner, and in that time slaveholders were generally known to not treat their slaves badly unlike the South. This lead her to give Douglass somewhat of an education as she taught her the basics of reading and writing, until her husband stopped her....
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...The civil war and the inception of the US constitution played a critical and pivotal role in the reconstruction of the modern US society. From these events, it was possible for the United States to become a single state and a unified nation, which finally ended slavery and thus expanded the applicable ideals that led to the declaration of independence. Historians argue that the civil war remains to be a critical event in the United States history; this is because this war was able to end the animosity caused by the inevitable climax of conflicts and sectional tensions. This paper will discuss the evolution of the modern US society from the inception of the constitution through the civil war and reconstruction. United States constitution remains to be the oldest constitution in the world and since its inception in 1787; it has played a critical role in the development of the modern US society (Sammis, 1997). Historians argue that the United States constitution has helped in providing a remarkable degree of political stability in the US, a country known for its social diversity. According to law experts, since the inception of the US constitution it has been possible to silence matters that seem to be sensitive in regards to the modern way of living. Moreover, the US constitution enabled the sanctions of the slavery, which remained to be the cause of the animosity before the civil war. On the other hand, before the US civil war, the then US President Abraham Lincoln had began...
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...The Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery and African American slaves gained their freedom during the Civil War; however, this did not mean they were fully integrated into American society. After the war, Southern Whites faced a crisis. The emancipation of slaves and the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship undermined their assertion that citizenship was for Whites only. The clear line between Whites who ruled and Blacks who were ruled became vulnerable. Since Whites slave owners could no longer treat the former slaves as non-citizens, they sought to strengthen this distinction by restoring slavery as best they could. Imposing disabilities on Black civil rights that limited their access to full citizenship was a goal to reach. Within months of the Civil War’s end, former Confederate states passed Black Codes to regulate the behavior of the former slaves as well as their status. Congressional Reconstruction was still a year away, and white Democrats who governed state legislatures passed laws that restricted the liberty of the former slaves. Although Black Codes granted African American certain rights such as legalized marriage, ownership of property; the laws prohibited interracial marriage for the fear of weakening the White race, denied them the rights to testify against Whites in court, jury service and the right to vote. The Black Codes also forced African Americans to labor and constrained their freedom of movement. Individuals not under control of white land owners...
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...Progress Administration interview almost 3000 former slaves from the south. These former slaves, were born in the last years of slavery or during the Civil War provides us with a look in their lives in their lives The narratives are a very positive travel in time. It gives us a glimpse of slaverys and makes us understand what slaves had to endure. The slave narratives use the actual voice of the slave and their believe in GOD. The first slave narrative that I will dissuss is Fountain Hughes from, Baltimore, Maryland. Hughes was 101 during this interview and was born a slave in 1848 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Fountain Hughes was grandfather was owned by Thomas Jefferson. Fountain Hughes were left poor and homeless after slavery and speaks about having to carry a pass to get from one place to another, his thoughts on soldiers and slave auctions. Hughes starts off his interview explaining why he believes people should never buy with credit. Hughes didn’t believe in owing money to creditors. Hughes’s states in his interview “I, nothing in the world worries me. I can sit here in this house at night, nobody can come and say, "Mr. Hughes, you owe me a quarter, you owe me a dollar, you owe me five cents." No you can't. I don't owe you nothing (Hughes, Library of Congress). Growing up as a slave restricted Hughes from a lot of the things that human beings take for granted. Hughes when on to explain what happened after he was free. Slaves were homeless, without food, jobs, and money...
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...protection from the troops many African Americans had to yet again face harsh treatment from the whites. Later the Jim Crow laws would be placed to separate them even more. Economic: relating to how money, goods, and jobs are created, distributed, and used"Economic With all the former slaves freed. African Americans could choose whether or not they worked for a plantation/farm land owner....
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...During the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, President Andrew Jackson put the 13th amendment into the constitution stating, all slavery is abolished in the United States. Slaves and African Americans were starting to feel free, yet wanted more than that; to be equal as the whites. Whites believed they were superior to blacks and treated them like dogs. However, African Americans and slaves weren’t alone, Radical Republicans also wanted them to be equal. Radical Republicans gained enough support from others across the country for Jackson to pass the 14th amendment, addresses citizenship and equality to all former slaves in America. At this time, former slaves believed they were just as equal as the whites since it was stated on paper, yet they never were treated fully equal and continued to be put down by whites and even had to obey to certain laws called Jim Crow Laws. Jim Crow laws were laws set in the South for African Americans that segregated them from whites and were to be treated differently. For an example, whites didn’t...
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...freeing approximately three million slaves held in the rebellious Confederate States. While it did not end slavery entirely, it did get the ball rolling toward the complete abolition of slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. While the laws of the land were amended, the attitudes of the people did not change and the African-Americans still had a long struggle ahead of them. President Lincoln had a plan of action that he wished to implement after the war ended in 1865. He wanted to get the Southern states back into the union as painlessly as possible. In order to be readmitted to the union, President Lincoln wanted ten percent of the voters from each rebellious state to swear an oath of allegiance to the United States (Kennedy & Cohen, 2012). Many in Congress disagreed with the President in favor of a law that would force fifty percent of the voters from the seceded states to swear the oath of allegiance. None of that really mattered to the newly freed slaves. That had lives to get on with and a newfound freedom. Unfortunately, there were those in the South that had plans of their own for their former slaves. Once Reconstruction began, the seceded states began to reorganize their governments and create new State Constitutions. Most of these states simply returned their Confederate leaders to political positions. They immediately passed a series of laws specifically written to control the behavior of African Americans. (Schultz, 2014) These laws became...
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...minorities and women within American society as well as minority idealism began to take on a diverse shape. Minorities and women sought after change and a new type of role in society, but more than that these individuals encouraged a new public persona as well as the way they would view themselves. However, insert religion! The previous period prior to thoughts of social change came in the form of a supported sense of intellectual knowledge, in which the faith in logical religions became a vast realization, and eventually marked the separation of power between government and church. The rush for establishment of major religions quickly began to change in regard to the events that took place and the reformation during the Great Awakening. The elimination of Calvinism or simply being pre-ordained began to spread throughout the country thus, creating the exploration of new sets of values and the expansion of Puritanical views or being Protestant. The idealism resulting from this sense of overly viewed religious behavior ultimately conveyed a greater comprehension of Christianity in its entirety or merely as it is viewed and experienced today by a majority of Americans. Furthermore, African American slaves as well as Native Americans were not immune to Christianity or its ministry considering the vast concern individuals of this faith had for converting others to the religion. As much significance as the first Great Awakening manufactured on Americans of this time period, women...
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...Two big colonial societies in the 1700’s were the New England and Chesapeake Bay societies. These societies varied in community and family life, but some similarities arose. In this time indentured servants were also widely used. This led to tension and conflict. This conflict though initiated a flourish of slave use in the in the Chesapeake Bay. The New England colonies consisted of what is now Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. These New England societies were very highly involved with educated their colonists. Education began at an early age. Massachusetts even made it a rule that if a town had more than 50 houses a teacher was required to teach the children. They were so involved in education they even founded Harvard in 1636. Harvard originally started as a ministry school to train men to be ministers. This stress on education was very important and had a huge impact on the literacy in New England. Compared to other colonies they had a high rate of individuals who could sign their names. 90% of white males could and 40% of females compared to a 50% rate in other colonies. THey even beat out England where only 33% of white males could read and write. Community life was also very important to New England societies and was set up in a unique way. All the towns were organized in the same way. In the center of each community there was a meeting house. The meeting house was...
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