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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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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However, Lincoln portrayed as a man who, from early childhood, had but one goal, and that was to advocate on freeing the African-American slaves. ... Lincoln saw this idea of human equality or race-based as the greatest threat to preserving America's free institutions and allowing slavery to dominate the union. ... Proposed by Douglas and Lincoln's opponent in the influential of their debate, where the bill overturned the Missouri Compromise's use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory. ... Since the Founders could not free themselves and free their slav...

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This can institute some inaccuracies during the timeline of slavery such as the involvement and participation of free and enslaved women during resistance in The Caribbean. ... Therefore, this paper will argue that female slaves and free black women played massive roles in the resistance of slavery that can be seen through prominent female slave resisters such as Nanny of The Windward Maroons, Mary Prince of Bermuda and Matilda and March of The Bahamas. ... Originally, historians often viewed enslaved women as well as free black women resistance as ineffective as their methods were 'non ...

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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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