In schools we attempt to teach this history in social studies classes. ... Whether the connection is made through myths and stories or though real documents like the Declaration of Independence, humans use history both as a guide for the future and as a reference to the past. ... This is simply because the Civil War was a very different experience depending on where in the United States you lived. ... Social Studies teachers need to take into account how different cultures use history in their everyday lives. ... This is one of the largest problems that social studies teachers face. ...

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On the eve of the Civil War, the ration was one in four; and slave owners probably made up less than a third of southern whites. ... Her husband refused to go with her, so she set out with her two brothers, and followed the North Star in the sky to guide her north to freedo...

• Word Count: 2041
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• Grade Level: High School

Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more accurate.2 Syncretism occurred with the combining of African tradition and Christian principles to create an African-American spirituality specific to its people. ... Levine's study, Black Culture and Black Consciousness, suggests there was a "widespread conversion of slaves to Christianity by ...

• Word Count: 1954
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Douglass's devotion to abolitionism led him to confer with Abraham Lincoln during the civil war and after the war he fought for the rights of women and African-Americans alike. ... In addition, the narrative is also considered as a typical American autobiography in that it: 1/ stands as a life of an individual who also 2/embodies guide to life for others and 3/ reports discovery of the self (we shall comeback to this last point later I mean the making of the self) but first one may wonder why Frederic Douglas felt compelled to tell his life story in the Narrative. ... Although, th...

• Word Count: 2277
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate