The slaves in the confederate controlled South could run away to the north and be "free", but if they were caught in the act, they were to face almost certain death. ... They were still called the same hateful terms, but blacks were fighting back. ... Nearly 100 years had passed before the slaves were truly "freed". ... Society's ideas of racial stereotypes haven't changed much over the years, but the culture we live in has changed drastically. ... The topic of the free slaves can be debated for a long period of time. ...

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Indians and Africans were here long before pilgrims. ... Through the readings so far in the book African American Literature I have learned that African slaves would tell stories to keep hope of becoming free someday. ... In the last paragraph it says that no one remembers the word now but maybe one day someone will wake up with the word on their tongue and "we will all stretch out our arms and take to the air, leaving these blood-drenched fields of our misery behind." I think stories like this were told to keep the idea of becoming free in the slaves minds, to keep hope alive so no one wou...

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Washington were both extremely influential black leaders, who were remembered for their beliefs, on the lives and freedoms that were deserved by the freedman during the late eighteen hundreds. ... Washington was born four years before the civil war had begun, Dubois was born three years after the civil war had come to an end. ... Washington worried about the high tensions that existed between the conservative white man and the newly freed black man. ... They both felt very strongly about there beliefs and the rights of the freed black man. ... Even though they had different ideals the...

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The issue of slavery has been debated between the North and South since before the colonization of the thirteen colonies. ... Consequently, they were well suited for plantation agriculture. ... Now the balance of 11 free states and 11 slave states was in trouble. Maine also applied for statehood in 1819, in which it was admitted as a free state. ... (Abbott) Throughout the rest of time before the Civil War, slavery remained in the Southern states. ...

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These amendments were created to aid the four million African Americans in there new role as freed men. ... Now that African Americans were now free citizens of the United States they needed to find a place to live and have lives of there own. ... These included poll taxes, which were a flat fee due before voting. ... These test were required before voting and they cut out the uneducated from voting. ... In conclusion, even though during the Reconstruction era we passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment, total freedom and equality did not make its way into the lives of the newly freed Afric...

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So we will start at the beginning, which was long before the war began to see if the exact cause can be defined. ... Two of which were that the people of the country were poor and hungry. ... They also agreed that the National Government should be stronger than before. ... The South was eventually allowed the Three Fifths Compromise in which they were allowed to count five slaves as three free men. "[ ] slavery, though never specifically mentioned, was well protected within the body of the constitution (qtd in Ferris 9)". ... We had fought the Revolutionary War to be free of the English,...

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We though that the Spanish were to blame for blowing up our ship. ... We also had another problem we only had normal one shot guns, but the Spanish had auto-mastics and could fire and kill many men before reloading. ... After we had freed Cuba and took it over ourselves from the Spanish we went to take the rest of Spans land. ... Before we went to the Philippians we stop at Hawaii and over throw the queen that had ruled it and took it over ourselves. ... We won, but many people were ashamed because we had killed so many of their people. ...

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Reparation to African-Americans is not a new topic, but it has never been this hot before, and it's only going to get hotter. ... How can we deny something that is staring us right in the face? ... We must give reparations to African American descendents. ... America today as we know it was built off the free, skilled labor of African American Slaves. ... The Japanese-Americans were compensated by the U.S. ...

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Today we recognize the diversity of populations from various ethnic, social, political, and economical elements of society. ... Rank 5: Freed People The Fifth on my list is the Freed People. ... This included the freed black slaves. ... I believe that the Freed people fared low in rank because of the history before the Civil War. ... The south before and after the was was mainly known for their export of cotton goods, and slavery. ...

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We can't help but ask: was his approach to the war a symbiotic expression, based on his personal approach to the idiosyncratic tragedies of his own life? ... Although the Proclamation did not free all slaves in the nation "indeed, no slaves outside of the Confederacy were affected by the Proclamation "it was an important symbolic gesture that identified the Union with freedom and the death of slavery. ... A statement of presidential intent to free the nation's slaves would clear the ideological waters and proclaim in no uncertain terms Lincoln's determination that the...

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A captain in the 12th Indiana wrote, "this is not a war for dollars and cents, nor a war for territory "but it is to decide whether we are to be a free people "and if the Union is dissolved I very much fear that we will not have a Republican form of government very long."" (Page 112) The North was very much afraid of what was to happen if the South were to become the victors. ... An Irish-American soldier wrote, "This is the first test of a modern free government in the act of sustaining itself against internal enemies if it fail all tyrants will succeed."" (Page 113) Oddly enough,...

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Just before Pickett's Charge begins when he receives word form the spy, Lee repeats his statement that "It is all in the hands of God" (Shaara pg. 15). ... However, throughout the book, we find that they seem to fight to help free the slaves rather than fighting for one another. ... He believed that we were fighting for the value of man and their freedom and that they were fighting for each other as well, "This is free ground. ... However, there were still men who differed in Chamberlin's opinion and fought for themselves rather than fighting for a free nation and each...

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From there, he would march to join Grant before Richmond. ... We start off on December 31st, 1864 in Columbia, South Carolina. ... Rumors were still being spread. ... The man we hated had met his proper fate." In May, news spread about the slaves are to be considered free. ...

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John Brown wanted to set up his own nation if freed slaves in Appalachia. He wanted to get free the slaves from the south, and felt the only way to accomplish this goal was by violence. ... Lincoln had a few concerns on what to do with the freed slaves? ... The USS Sumter, Semmes ship bottled up 18 union ships before being destroyed. These acts of making privateers pows, and the south attacking union ships made it official we are at war...

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Twenty years before Civil War started, South and North didn't have a good relationship already and there were many issues that they didn't agree on each other such as Clay's compromise, Fugitive slave act, Pottawatomie massacre, etc. ... Therefore, if they freed all the slaves, someone would predict, many whites would have no jobs and many things would be up-side-down. ... But the Northern were opponent of slavery since the slavery population took less than 10 percent of the entire population and Southern states were already free. ... Now, as we could see, our nation ...

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Once freedom was attained, churches, schools, and homes were burned and blacks were murdered in the south. ... " And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free- (Emancipation Proclamation, Making Connections, p. 164) Blacks were free, but there is a difference in equality and freedom. ... We may all fail before we succeed. ... "We many be asked, I say, why we want it. I will tell you why we want it. ...

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Lincoln realized this and stated that this nation was "dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equal." ... After the war was over the American people knew what it felt like to finally be free. While they still remained free, Americans began to treat other races and cultures as the British had treated them. ... Perhaps the greatest irony is the fact that the southern states now wanted to be free, and separate from the northern states. ... These charges were proven by the numerous times Lincoln went against what the constitution stated to suit his own agenda. ...

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He did not see a free black man, working along his father as an equal; he was brought up thinking that blacks were supposed to be less respected than whites like him. ... The document discussed the need and want for owning property, elections and voters, and also "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion- (The Virginia 156). ... That we will never know. ... Without the events that occurred in the past, whether they were right or wrong, we as a country would never be where we are today. So before anyone calls our founding fathers hypocrites again, maybe they should take a...

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Mean while Tom starts off with the slave trader,He and Haley board a boat.At the same time we learn that Eliza and Harry are at a Quaker settlement where they are reunited with with Eliza's husband George. ... Eliza,Harry and George leave the Quakers and are soon confronted by Loker and his gang but they manage to once again evade them.George proclaims to them that he will stop at nothing and will become a free man.At his new home Tom is given the responsibility of keeping his masters books.Also he is spreading his good word by trying to reform his new master,who we learn feels he isn...

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Mean while Tom starts off with the slave trader,He and Haley board a boat.At the same time we learn that Eliza and Harry are at a Quaker settlement where they are reunited with with Eliza's husband George. ... Eliza,Harry and George leave the Quakers and are soon confronted by Loker and his gang but they manage to once again evade them.George proclaims to them that he will stop at nothing and will become a free man.At his new home Tom is given the responsibility of keeping his masters books.Also he is spreading his good word by trying to reform his new master,who we learn feels he isn...

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Lincoln won all electoral votes of every free state except New Jersey, which awarded him four of its seven votes. ... Before the 1860 presidential election, Southern leaders had urged that the South secede from the Union if Lincoln should win. ... We have sown the wind, only to reap the whirlwind. ... We have hated and persecuted the Negro we have scourged him out of the temple of justice by the Dred Scott decision we have shot and hanged his friends at Harper's Ferry we have enacted laws for his further degradation, and even to expel him from the borders of some of our States we have joi...

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Another very important goal of the radicals was to aid the freed slaves. ... Blacks were lynched by the hundreds. ... In many of these seven states, most of the governors, representatives and senators were northern men called "carpetbaggers" who had gone South after the war to make their political fortunes, often teaming up with newly freed Blacks. ... In many places, Blacks were the majority. ... "Whereas, it is essential to just government we recognize the equality of all men before the law, and hold that it is the duty of government in its dealings with the people to mete out equal and ...

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His purpose it to make us aware that some of the books that we have been reading and lessons that we have been taught are not telling us the exact truths that we need to be aware of. ... Loewen also indicates that in some history books, historians describe slaves as not wanting to be free. They even claimed that they opposed those who tried to free them. ... We are aware about the wars but are never given the reasons as to why we are in the war in the first place. ... We have issues over here in America that have to be fixed yet were making other countries a major priority. ...

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Nearly 150,000 people were killed during 1975-1990. ... He showed the rights of free speech. ... Many people were not offered the same chance at life. ... As I've said before you have to go with the change of time. ... That's what the founding fathers before us foresaw when they won the battle that ensured our freedom. ...

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In Uncle Tom's Cabin we are cordially introduced to Uncle Tom. ... His name is Kunta Kinte and with the progress of time, we learn that he is bright, tenacious, bold, confident, and honest. Haley, like Stowe, portrays Kunta in a positive manner in order for the reader to realize that African-Americans had a long line of history before they were kidnapped into slavery. ... Unfortunately, back around the world Uncle Tom's cabin's transient utopia is shattered as we learn of the unfortunate fate of Uncle Tom. ... Kunta's armpits and around his foto, felt as if they were on fir...

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