African and Native groups also held similar ideas about animal spirits, the guiding presence of ancestors, oral traditions, a living world, and extended family relationships" (IndiVisible). ... Shortly after the Civil War in 1866, a treaty was signed that granted citizenship rights to the Freedmen. ... This decision has stripped rights of around three thousand African American Freedmen, including access to completely free health care, food distribution for those suffering from poverty, and low-income assistance (Kellogg). Obviously, this controversial move encouraged protests from the Freedme...

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Then began the Reconstruction and the processes of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves. ... The slave-holding interests in the South denounced this strategy as infringing upon their Constitutional rights. ... Subsequent writers on the American Civil War looked to several factors explaining the geographic divide, including sectionalism, protectionism, and state's rights. ... "States' rights" was an ideology formulated and applied as a means of advancing slave state interests through federal authority. ... In the world of 19th century self-made Am...

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Before the Civil War, America was plagued with a complicated social quandary that incorporated individual, societal, political, economic, and religious principles. This taboo of a topic found itself well-versed throughout the country in many publications. Its authorship included Frederick Douglass...

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Then began the Reconstruction and the processes of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves. ... The slave-holding interests in the South denounced this strategy as infringing upon their Constitutional rights. ... Subsequent writers on the American Civil War looked to several factors explaining the geographic divide, including sectionalism, protectionism, and state's rights. ... "States' rights" was an ideology formulated and applied as a means of advancing slave state interests through federal authority. ... In the world of 19th century self-made A...

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• Grade Level: High School

The 1831 slave narrative The History of Mary Prince is indeed a multi-layered text. Transcribed from Mary Prince's own words, it was written as abolitionist propaganda for England's Anti-Slavery Society. Yet, the autobiography's complexities make it difficult to examine solely as a publicity piece....

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School