Nothing but the truth should be taught in books and classrooms. ... History books always try to avoid talking about the horrors of slavery as well as discrimination. ... All slave owners held their slaves against their will, not allowing them to have their own freedom to get education, practice their choice of religion and many other things a "freed " person was capable of doing on their own. ... 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. ...

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John Brown had also returned to Ohio and he took two trips to Kansas and planned to free slaves throughout the south. ... In 1844 she married a free black named John Tubman. ... This book was one of the most influential books in American History. ... After the book was published and sold she had wrote more books on the topic. ... Slavery was a very big issue and they thought that each state can choose if they wanted slaves or they were free. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

His writings, such as Walden (1854), became one of the nineteenth century's most influential books. ... It was imperative that Scott win his freedom or else the south would win again and proslavery would further spread, even to the free states. Dred Scott was purchased by his previous owner's sons and childhood friends, Peter Blow, and he and his wife were set free. ... Dred Scott's life is a typical life of a black man, even better since he was set free. ... The books are filled with the names of kings. ...

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Lincoln did many extraordinary things in his life such as opposing slavery and winning the war to help blacks be free, because if it weren't for him then we still might have slavery to this day. ... He has taught for a total of 44 years and flew 30 combat missions over Germany and occupied Europe, he has written a total of nine books in his career and four of them were on Lincoln. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One, it took them further away from their family as well as from the free north. ... Another problem was that even after the slave bought his freedom he would not be recognized as free and would be made a slave by some other plantation owner. ... Textbooks offer too little information on the subject and the only other slavery books I have read are from the slaves" point of view. ... Every page had footnotes with several books, which were specified to particular areas of slavery. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The two books were the first works by an African American to be published by a major publishing house. ... He was a strong voice against the disfranchisement of African Americans, the showing of racist movies such as "The Birth of The Nation" and the publication of books denigrating African Americans. ... Another episode that certainly affected Douglass struggle to be free was his Fight with the slave-breaker Edward Covey. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Emancipation and Reconstruction Michael Perman, a renowned historian and professor of Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago has written many famous books on American history, "The Coming of the American Civil War" and award winning "Road to Redemption" has gained immense popularity and scholarly attention. ... The slaves now free citizens with equal rights had to be emancipated; the government had the responsibility to not only to ensure that African Americans enjoyed the equal rights but also to devise measures to educate or train such a huge work force. ... Further the South...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Ku Klux Klan was started as an underground terrorist group against the civil rights movement that freed the slaves after the Civil War. ... It is estimated that there are still around 300 Klan's members today which is still 300 too many but hopefully in time they will only be found in history books. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

If there were No Hate, There would be No Love Detest, abhor, loathe and hate all means the same, but most people are common with only one of these words, and that word is hate. Hate is extremely strong word, but it often slips off out tongue without thinking that it might offend someone. Merria...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Diary Of Emma LeConte is a powerful and inspiring book. This book is full of animosity. LeConte captures the burning of Columbia during the Civil War in such a vivid way that it leaves an impression stained in your mind. After demolishing Atlanta so that the Rebels could not return to use it...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Ku Klux Klan was started as an underground terrorist group against the civil rights movement that freed the slaves after the Civil War. ... It is estimated that there are still around 300 Klan's members today which is still 300 too many but hopefully in time they will only be found in history books. ...

• Word Count: 858
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• Grade Level: High School

He would barrowed books from his neighbors and read the bible. ... The Emancipation Proclamation gave the Confederate Sates 100 days to join the Union, otherwise all slaved in the states would be freed. The emancipation Proclamation was signed on January 1,1863 and the slaves on the south were freed. ...

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He read all the books, newspapers, and political tracts that came his way. ... Lincoln's most significant action as president to be his Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, Lincoln proclaimed that all slaves held in rebellious areas were "then, thence-forward, and forever free." ... Although the proclamation actually freed no slaves at the time, it accomplished humanitarian and political purposes. ...

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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). ... Would they had lost their powerful status and eventually been forgotten in the history books? ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many books have been written on this subject, but I have chosen these two authors Kenneth M. ... Some biographical data will appear in order to see how their opinions come across in the books. ... Clemenceau turned here for a country of free institutions after the Civil War. ...

• Word Count: 1982
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Conflicts Between Individual and Society In Slavery Period Abraham Lincoln once said that "I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others." ... By publishing books, articles, and by talking to people Garrison managed to change the way society viewed slavery. ...

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Writers differ in the purpose for which they write. Some aim to entertain, but the more serious and skilled writers usually have the goal of expressing a serious idea. Writers such as Hariet Beecher Stowe and Alex Haley are writers who write for more than mere entertainment. Uncle Tom's Cabin, writt...

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What keeps them free is knowing that their mind, body, and will is their own and they need to appreciate it. ... We learn a lot of life's lessons through others and not just books or lectures. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

America was aware that it needed to claim their share in all directions in the word when every nation was running faster than the other toward the free regions to have the power on it and dominate it and this is presented in the cartoon in document A. ... Missionaries inspired by books like the Reverend Josiah Strong's Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis, (document B) looked overseas for new fields to till. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Frederick Douglass's "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,"" tells the story of Frederick Douglass and his life as a slave growing up on a plantation in the 1830-1830's. This story enables the reader to view slavery from a totally different prospective, for an actual sla...

• Word Count: 1899
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• Grade Level: High School

Then began the Reconstruction and the processes of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves. ... Southern whites believed that the emancipation of slaves would destroy the South's economy because of the alleged laziness of blacks under free labor. ... In Kansas Territory, years of pro and anti-slavery violence and political conflict erupted; the Congressional House of Representatives voted to admit Kansas as a free state in early 1860, but its admission in the Senate was delayed until January 1861, after the 1860 elections when Southern senators began to...

• Word Count: 7511
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• Grade Level: High School

Then began the Reconstruction and the processes of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves. ... Southern whites believed that the emancipation of slaves would destroy the South's economy because of the alleged laziness of blacks under free labor. ... In Kansas Territory, years of pro and anti-slavery violence and political conflict erupted; the Congressional House of Representatives voted to admit Kansas as a free state in early 1860, but its admission in the Senate was delayed until January 1861, after the 1860 elections when Southern senators began to ...

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Prior to the Civil War most women stayed at home tending to their families and homes because they thought that they were fragile delicate little creatures. They were not considered strong enough to fight in the Civil War. Two ways for women to participate were through aide and relief societies an...

• Word Count: 1973
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• Grade Level: High School