Citizenship of the Freed Slaves during and After the Reconstruction Slavery and the citizenship seem to be in contradiction of each other from top to bottom. ... Citizenship of the Freed Slave is not only an event to waffle about, in actual fact its start of a new chapter in American history. "The Supreme Court decided the citizenship question for African Americans, slave and free, in Scott v. ... In the final draft of January 1, 1863, he was content to say that they "are, and henceforward shall be free." ... "Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free a single slave, it...

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Auld that freed Fredrick Douglass from slavery. ... Calloway only allowed for citizens to only check out 2 books a time, and sent people home if she felt they were inappropriately dressed for the library. ... No matter, Eudora continued to read books two by two, vowing to never stop reading. ... Finder's most apparent argument was "Students with the greatest status were freed from judgment" (Call to Write: pg 27 p 9). ...

• Word Count: 513
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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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The well written books that he produced were all based on his life. ... Without knowledge, he would never have been the man he was when he was free. ... My Bondage And My Freedom also gives readers an update to Narrative that includes Douglass's life as a free man. ... This book included Frederick's life as a slave, as well as a free man, well known speaker, and respected diplomat. ... The works document the rise of a slave to a free man, to a respected speaker, to a famous writer and politician. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 357
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• Grade Level: High School

The well written books that he produced were all based on his life as was Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. These books all start with Douglass coping with slavery. ... Without knowledge, Frederick Douglass would never have been the man he was when he was free. ... My Bondage And My Freedom also gives readers an update to Narrative that includes Douglass's life as a free man. ... This book included Frederick Douglass's life as a slave, as well as a free man, well known speaker, and respected diplomat. ...

• Word Count: 1987
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• Grade Level: High School

He read a lot of books by borrowing them. ... Many people urged him to free the slaves. They sent him petitions, newspaper editorials, speeches were made and many visitors came to the White House to get him to free the slaves. ...

• Word Count: 681
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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. ...

• Word Count: 913
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California would enter as a free state; New Mexico would be given separate territorial status; Texas would be paid $10.000.000 for ceding its claim to New Mexico, thereby allowing it to pay its debts; and Utah would be given territorial status. (175) But President Clay died in July 9, 1850 and Vice-president Millard Fillmore took measures that delayed the War but also created some differences between northern and southern countries. ... Until 1863 there existed equilibrium between the Union and the Confederate forces, but Abraham Lincoln wrote a proclamation that named all slaves free. ... As...

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description: slave's likeness to free slave 2. Soliciting aid from free slave B. ... At home Frederick read parts of books and newspapers when he could, but he had to constantly be on guard against his mistress. ... "It was the custom in the State of Maryland to require the free colored people to have what were called free papers. ... "To which I answered: "No sir; I never carry my free papers to sea with me." ...

• Word Count: 1950
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• Grade Level: High School

Abraham Lincoln was a very great man. He did many great things for our county. Abe Lincoln showed great leadership and he brought our country to a whole. If not for him, our country might still be divided today. Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. Currently the cou...

• Word Count: 2431
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• Grade Level: High School

The slaveholder dresses in Northern goods, rides in a Northern saddle . . . sports his Northern carriage . . . reads Northern books . . . ... I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. ... Republican candidate John Fremont ran on the slogan of "Free soil, Free labor, Free men, Fremont." ... Dred Scott was a slave from Missouri who sued for his freedom based on the fact that his residence in a free state made him a free man. ... Douglas believed in Popular Sovereignty, while Lincoln did not believe the Union would survive as half s...

• Word Count: 2247
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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

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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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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Slaves also could be set free by their owners, if they saved enough money to buy them ownselves and become free. ... Helping runaways was illegal even in the free states. ... They were interviewed by the abolitionist newspapers, and described in books. ... Funds were being collected so that slaves could be free. ... After the slaves in the United States were freed, slavery b...

• Word Count: 1826
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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. ...

• Word Count: 1289
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Isaac was a free man and a sawyer, while Betsy was an owned slave, but she kept her own rules. ... He copied script of spelling books and the Bible, and challenged his playmates to spelling matches. ... In the dialogue he read the slave argues against the owner's claims to enslave him and convinces him to set him free forever. ...

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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. ...

• Word Count: 1225
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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...

• Word Count: 2032
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In 1846, at the age of 23, was hired as the editor of the Brooklyn Daily newspaper; however, two years later he was fired because he was an adamant supporter of the Free Soil faction of the Democratic party. ... Whitman dabbled around in free soil journalism for awhile, but that didn't work out and this brought him to the close of his career as journalist ("Whitman, Walt" 639) . ... He attended the opera and theater, and began to read and write tremendously, out of which he developed his own style of free-verse poetry. ... Although Whitman produced many books of poetry and prose, "Leaves ...

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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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Frederick Douglass Born 1818 (?) in Tuckahoe, Maryland Died 1895 in Washington D.C. Frederick Douglass was the leading spokesman of African Americans in the 1800's. Never knowing his mother or even the identity of his father, he was born a slave and escaped to the north when he was twenty years...

• Word Count: 5595
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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 ...

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