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- 171: Civil War - The War Of Northern Aggression
- ... in the federal government was here to help the states reach common goals, believe it’s their supreme authority. One of the lies that has already been mentioned is that the "Civil War" is over slavery. This is one of the most dead wrong statements that one could think of. First of all, 70 to 80 percent of Southern soldiers didn’t even own slaves (Kennedy 34). People just don’t ... over whether their neighbor is going to be able to continue having something. One soldier in the Confederate army claimed, "I declare I never met a Southern soldier who had drawn his sword to perpetuate slavery." Secondly, even for the few slaveholders in the war, C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis, their leader, predicted that all slave property "will eventually be lost" no matter what the outcome (Kennedy 35). Why would ... popular belief to destroy is that only white Southerners owned slaves. This one isn’t even close to accurate. First things first, white men weren’t the only slave holders. In fact, black men started slavery by enslaving their own people in Africa, but that’s beside the point. In the 1830 American census, over 10,000 slaves were owned by other African-Americans (Kennedy 64, 65). This would also ...
- 172: Huck Finn
- ... human being and a symbol of humanity...and in freeing Jim, Huck makes a bid to free himself of the conventionalized evil taken for civilization by the town"--in other words, of the abomination of slavery itself. As noted by another supporter of Twains book, "There are only a few instances which go to show that this is not a boy's book and does not fall under the head of ... to him when he warns Jim about trouble coming. I come to find what type of a truly caring person Huck is because of his struggle that he has with his conscience in regard to slavery. His conscience tells him, the way it has been instructed, that to help the runaway, nigger, Jim to escape-to aid in stealing the property of the widow Douglas, who has never injured him, is ... stories about how black people are free and he yearns for freedom more than anything. He wants to be free so he can earn enough money to buy his wife and his children out of slavery. I find so much hope and love in Jims character towards his family, which is torn apart because of slavery. One can only feel pride in the way that Jim loves his family and ...
- 173: Latin America And Slavery
- Prior to its independence Latin America had been controlled by external forces for hundreds of years. To be freed of control from these outside interests did not in any way guarantee Latin America a return to the status ...
- 174: Huck Finn 3
- ... human being and a symbol of humanity...and in freeing Jim, Huck makes a bid to free himself of the conventionalized evil taken for civilization by the town"--in other words, of the abomination of slavery itself. As noted by another supporter of Twains book, "There are only a few instances which go to show that this is not a boy's book and does not fall under the head of ... to him when he warns Jim about trouble coming. I come to find what type of a truly caring person Huck is because of his struggle that he has with his conscience in regard to slavery. His conscience tells him, the way it has been instructed, that to help the runaway, nigger, Jim to escape-to aid in stealing the property of the widow Douglas, who has never injured him, is ... stories about how black people are free and he yearns for freedom more than anything. He wants to be free so he can earn enough money to buy his wife and his children out of slavery. I find so much hope and love in Jims character towards his family, which is torn apart because of slavery. One can only feel pride in the way that Jim loves his family and ...
- 175: Nineteenth Century
- ... many new religious groups were formed. Some examples are the Mormons (The Church of Latter Day Saints), Church of Christ, Christian Scientist, Seventh Day Adventist, the Shakers, and the Jehovah Witness. Many issues, such as slavery and marriage, caused denominations to branch apart. There have been many law changes in the United States since the Nineteenth Century, including many major ones, including slavery. In 1854, Massachusetts, Oregon, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont all had prohibition laws that lasted until the beginning of the Civil War. From when the colonies became a country until the early Nineteenth Century, slavery was very wide spread, especially in the South. Many farmers and Plantation owners in the south had hundred or even thousands of slaves. Around 1860, there were as many as four million slaves, making ...
- 176: Humble Morality
- ... surface of the stories he hears, influences his perception of the validity of these stories. Further, because he refuses to look beyond the rational, he is unable to see the essential elements of evil in slavery. In addition, the protagonist's faults are representative of society's ability to romanticize and gloss over the institution of slavery and are a negation of the sentimentality of slavery, prevalent in society during that period. The stories within the stories, as told by Uncle Julius, relay several themes important in rebutting the sentimentality of slavery. One theme Uncle Julius's stories rebut is ...
- 177: American Two Party System
- ... won for the Whigs. This seemed to be a time of uncertainty in political direction. While this uncertainty was taking place, a social force greater than party loyalty was beginning to reshape American politics. The slavery issue, with the passions it aroused in the North and the South, gradually compelled a realignment of parties. The Whigs party began to split in 1852. This was a result of the deep split in opinion over slavery. During the next few years most Southern Whigs joined the Democrats. Northern Whigs joined northern antislavery Democrats. In 1854 groups of northern men against slavery urged the creation of a new political party opposed to the continuation of slavery. This party has become today’s Republicans. During 1854 to1860, the slavery issue became such a hot topic that even ...
- 178: Fredrick Douglass 2
- ... their mothers without a reason. Anyone who was part of such a society would be thought of as a heartless monster. Douglass wanted the northern whites to lash out against these heartless monsters and abolish slavery, thereby ending the callous practices associated with slavery. Another example of how Douglass used family values as propaganda against southern slaveholders was in the treatment of his grandmother. When Douglass s master decided that his grandmother was too old and no longer useful ... The fact that slave masters could show so little regard and respect for Douglass s grandmother would be loathsome and despicable, and Douglass hoped this would help influence the northern whites against the institution of slavery. Furthermore, Douglass wanted to show the hypocrisy in the behavior of these masters. They considered their slaves to be less than human, yet they still desired and slept with their female slaves. This would ...
- 179: Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation Proclamation There is much discussion about Lincoln's order abolishing slavery in the states "in rebellion". Though the Emancipation Proclamation did not free any slaves right out nor make any drastic changes it was a very necessary, very big step taken. Lincoln began an essential phase that the country had to get through in order for slavery to ever be abolished. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was very important not much freedom truly occurred. Lincoln's famous document actually freed no slaves. The Proclamation applied only to slavery in rebellious areas. Not only did this mean Lincoln had no power to enforce emancipation in these states still in control by the Confederacy, but the four slave states still under federal control were ...
- 180: Morrison's Beloved: The Psychological Suffrage of Former Slaves
- ... that by including sadistic guards, murder, separation of family members, a big war, failed and successful escapes, and losses of loved ones to the violence of the mad order, Morrison was attempting to enter American slavery into the martyr ranks of the Nazi's abuse of the Jews (Crouch 38-43). Also, Crouch stated, " …she lacks a true sense of the tragic" (38-43). He supported this by stating " … it shows no sense of the timeless and unpredictable manifestations of evil that preceded and followed American slavery" (Crouch 38-43). However, Crouch realizes that Morrison has real talent, in that he believes she has the ability to organize her novel in a musical structure by using images as motifs. He also felt that the characters in the novel served no purpose other than to deliver a message. Crouch believed that Morrison did not want her readers to experience the horrors of slavery that others did, but rather just to tally up the sins that were committed against the darker people and feel sorry for them. Furthermore, he presumed that this novel was designed to make sure ...
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