The reason why I chose the Civil War time frame was because it was a critical moment in American History. It was a war triggered by the issue of slavery and was the first time the country ever fought against itself. Even though the war tore families from the north and the south apart, as an African-American female, I have great gratitude for this war. If this war never happened or if the south would have won. I and so many African-Americans would probably not have the many freedoms we have today
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Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were heroic because they inspired others with their word and actions that ultimately made the world a better place. Even though they died over a century ago, their legacy lives on, inspiring people to stand for what they believe in, even if they ideas are criticized. Even though Lincoln is dead, “the memory of his virtues, of his wise and patriotic counsels and labors, (...) is precious, and will be a power for good in the country quite down to the end of time
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War is a necessary evil, so far from our rich history we can understand war is needed to termination a threat to our survival. War can be a brutal bloodbath or a reasonable way for another species to survive. The same can said for the King Philip’s War in 1636 to 1637. Where a weaken Pequot Indian tribe has come to the brink of extinction they’re back against the wall they must fight back the alien invasion of the Europeans or lose all those land and heritage. The very interesting part of the king
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I lived in a time when my people weren’t even considered people. In that time, some of my people acted more civilized than the people who dared to say we weren’t functioning members of society like our lighter skinned, blue eyed counterparts. This time in which I was born in stemmed from a kind of so-called “physical” slavery from the white man to the blacks. I remember I never understood the concept of the physical slavery back in the 1800s as a child. My parents used to talk about those kinds of
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"Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation," said by Coretta Scott King, a civil rights activist. Freedom needs to be repeatedly won. Freedom has led to the end of slavery, having the right to vote, and having the right to have same sex marriage. Freedom is a major event of American history and life. First of all, freedom is not just a one and done kind of thing; it has to be won over and over again. Freedom is perplex! According to the History Channel, slavery started
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Abraham Lincoln’s words describe one of the root causes of the Civil War, the issue of slavery. Slavery had many aspects to it that made it questionable. The regions did not agree on the fact that one side didn't have to pay their workers but on top of not paying them, they treated them with little worth. Another side believed in an equal and ethical way of treating their workers and paying them. What divided the United States was both the morality and the economics of slavery. This essay will describe
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beliefs. However, in the 1800s the United States was divided between the north and the south due to slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott Decision cause tension between the northern and southern part of the country that led to the Civil War in 1861. The Kansas-Nebraska
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In the summer of 1862, Jane Kelso was undoubtedly cognizant of the war going on around her. From June to July, the Union and Confederate armies engaged in 5 separate skirmishes. The Battle of Gaines Mill, which transpired in Virginia, claimed 15,000 men as casualties or wounded. Throughout the United States, men answered the call to fight for either side, and the war presented no signs of ending anytime soon. It surely crossed her mind that her husband, James would join the Union in their cause
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JOHN CLARE John Clare was born in July 13, 1793, in Helpston, near Peterborough, Northampton, England. Clare lived his life for seventy-one years then died May 20, 1864. John Clare, a man who started working at such young age, at age seven. Though Clare had to work at an early age he still had access to many books. (though they were limited). Getting knowledge from the books he would read on his time off, he got the ability to write the romantic poems we might know today. For example, one of the
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The sexual exploitation of women of color is a recurring event throughout history and remains an underlying situation in society to this day. A majority of cultures in the past and even the present actively endorse or submissively pass off this exploitation of women. Sexual harassment and assault of women had thrived both under the tyrannic rule of slavery and even the facade of gender equality in modern America: the sexual exploitation of women is alive and thriving due to the existing gender prejudice
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