This essay will explore the roles played by these three factors and then deduce whether Lincoln is deserving of this title. ... For example, of the 46,000 free blacks of military age in the North 33,000 had enlisted in the Union Army. ... Although this essay has already explored significant reasons why Lincoln is not deserving of this title, he cannot be completely disregarded. ... Ultimately, slaves were freed by the Union army of which Lincoln was commander in chief, and the fact he was committed to emancipation was crucial and could justify Lincoln being considered as the "Great Emancipat...

• Word Count: 1565
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Frederick Douglass began his life as a common slave but proved to be a phenomenon by breaking free of all boundaries placed upon him. ... At age thirteen Douglass bought his first book, The Columbian Orator, consisting of various essays and speeches having to do with democracy and liberty. ... Frederick Douglass would encourage many more African Americans to fight for the Union Army, "Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.... ... A header in Douglass" newspaper once read, "Right is of no Sex - Truth is of no Color."7 Frederick Douglass broke free from the shackles of slavery, and...

• Word Count: 1350
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The young poet's earliest work attracted the attention of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, editor of the Free Press newspaper in Newburyport, Massachusetts, who asked him to contribute articles. ... Oliver Wendell Holmes- Initially known in the Boston area for his cultured, witty verse, the American physician and writer gained wider popularity with the publication of his essays in 1858. ... Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) - American poet and biographer, known for his unrhymed free verse which uses precise and vivid images to portray the energy and brutality of American urban industrial ...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

(Essay) Ida B Wells-Barnett Ida B. ... She was born a slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16th 1862, which was about six months before Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all of the slaves. ... Later she moved to Memphis, Tennessee where she became Co-owner and eventually full owner of a local newspaper, The Memphis Free Speech. ...

• Word Count: 1282
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This essay will examine how the Radical Republicans achieved these goals. ... Both moderate and Radical Republicans alike criticized Johnson for his ideas concerning freed people's rights and his strong fear of excessive legislative power in the federal government. ... He was convinced that the moderates would not break with him over the issue of freed people's rights. ...

• Word Count: 1808
• Approx Pages: 7

This essay will address each of these key points and prove the validity of this statement. ... According to PBS, The Civil War and Reconstruction, in the year of 1865, more than 2,000 black freed men and women were murdered during the negotiation process. ... During this Congressional Convention, the 14th Amendment was proposed and ultimately passed making black freed men full citizens of the United States. ...

• Word Count: 1687
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The American Civil War was a milestone in the history of not only the United States, but the world as well. The Civil War set in stone, the position the United States would take in the world community. The end result of the war, securing the Union, verified that the U.S. would remain a large count...

• Word Count: 1746
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In the 1920's African Americans were free under the constitution but they were not free from racism and their past was not far gone. ... However, literature was words of emotion, feelings of how life was during slavery, while free, and what they hope for the future of blacks. ... He published an essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," where he introduced to the people black literary identity. ...

• Word Count: 2368
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

According to Document A, in the text when it says "Other nations have undertaken hostile interference against us. hampering our power. limiting our greatness and checking our fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence(God) for free development of our yearly multiplying millions.... According of the Background Essay, when it says " In July 1845, he sent 70 American troops under General Zachary Taylor into the disputed area of the Southern Texas. ...

• Word Count: 1637
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Langston Hughes composed an essay entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" in which he "described the mountain as "this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and be as little Negro and as much American as possible" (The Nation 692-694) Although Hughes did not have a longing to turn into a perfect "American", he did believe that African Americans should contribute to American Democracy. ... As Hughes once said "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned sel...

• Word Count: 1522
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School