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- 191: The Impact of Frederick Douglass
- ... he soon learned to read well. “At 7, Frederick was sent to his master, Captain Aaron Anthony, at a nearby plantation. There he first met a brother and two sisters. He later recalled sadly that "slavery had made us strangers." (Compton’s Interactive Deluxe 1) At the age of 13 he read “The Colombian Orator”, a book of speeches denouncing slavery and oppression deepened his hatred of slavery. “In 1833 Frederick was sent to work for Auld's brother, Thomas, at a plantation near St. Michael's, Md. Frederick's pride angered his new master, who placed him in the hands of ...
- 192: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- ... lifestyle, she was able to sit back and observe the happenings of the world around her (Faber 39). She learned a great deal about the most prominent issue of the time, and eventually her life, -- slavery. Traveling from Connecticut to Ohio brought Harriet closer to a place that was pro-slavery. Actually, the only thing separating the slave state of Kentucky from Ohio was the Ohio River (McAlpine). Being a teacher, Harriet had many students. One day she decided to visit one of those students at ... religion into her. "In the exuberantly evangelical Beecher household, the young Harriet early became interested in Theology and in schemes for improving humanity" (Ward, Introduction). It seemed only fitting that she became an advocate against slavery. While living in Cincinnati, Harriet was able to gain first hand experience and knowledge concerning the evils of slavery. She was able to come in contact with fugitive slaves and fellow abolitionists who told ...
- 193: Response To Civil Disobedience
- ... willing to exert control over the government and not be ruled like sheep. Part of Thoreau's writing style includes using examples to justify his opinions. Two such examples are the Mexican War and the slavery issues the country is facing at the time. Thoreau explains that "people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico" (225). The constant references to multiple examples make Thoreau's essay a ... purpose as well" (224). He thinks that the soldiers act without conscience, sheepishly following their government's orders and do not think about what they are fighting for. When he talks about the evils of slavery, Thoreau states that "When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can ...
- 194: John Brown
- ... planning, John Brown and his twenty-one soldiers marched into the strategically located town of Harpers Ferry with the goal of starting a slave revolt which would lead to the abolishment of the institution of slavery. Within hours Brown and his followers had taken several hostages, and gained control of the armory, the arsenal, and the engine house. The following days consisted of skirmishes with the towns people and the arrival ... Ferry. John Brown was born on May 9, 1800 in Torrington Connecticut. When he was about five years old, his father moved the family to Hudson Ohio. There, John was filled with the heavy anti-slavery sentiment that was present in that area. This, combined with personal observations of the maltreatment of blacks and the influence of Calvinism, started John Brown on his crusade to abolish slavery. While still living in Hudson he married Dianthe Lusk and began to raise a large family. To support his family he worked as a farmer, tanner, and surveyor. In 1849, John Brown moved with ...
- 195: American Parties From The Civi
- ... city dwellers. Jefferson was elected president in 1800, and the Democrats held the presidency until 1825. A radical group of Democrats led by Andrew Jackson won the elections of 1828 and 1832, but arguments over slavery created and deepened splits within the party, and the Civil War destroyed it. The party revived after the disputed election of 1876. With the nomination in 1896 of W. J. Bryan on a Free Silver ... the national level. After the Hartford Convention of 1815, the Federalists were a dying anachronism. The Republican Party Many believe that the origins of this party grew out of the conflicts about the expansion of slavery into the new Western territories. The passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 provided the motive for political realignment. That law repealed earlier compromises that did not allowed slavery in the territories. The passing of this act served as the unifying factor for abolitionists and split the Democrats and the Whig party. "Anti-Nebraska" protest meetings spread rapidly through the country. Two such ...
- 196: The American Dream
- ... the country more and make it superior. Both North and South wanted to better the country to have it achieve the "American Dream". Unfortunately, each side had a different perspective on how to approach it. Slavery was a major issue, the North against, the South pro. The disagreement on slavery lead to difficulty in the issue of Westward expansion. Both agreed to it, but whether to admit them as free or slave states was where the split occurred. The compromise of 1850 stated that California ... decided on their own which is giving them more state rights in which the South heavily supported. This compromise did not satisfy each side fully. The issue of State rights intensified by the issue of slavery because the Southern states felt they had the right to decide on their own about Slavery without Federal intervention. It seems the Southern states felt that the "American dream" was out of their reach ...
- 197: The Subject of Equality and Justification of Social Hierarchy
- ... document to declare it. The Declaration of Independence greatly affected American history. The phrase “all men are created equal” has been used by many groups to justify their cause. Blacks used this statement to challenge slavery in the South. It was this concept of equality that pushed the Northern states to free slaves in their borders around the late 1700s to early 1800s. Before the Civil War, both black and white abolitionists used the Declaration of Independence as justification that slavery was wrong. The delegates of the women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls in 1848 interpreted that Jefferson applied that “all men and women are created equal.” The subject of equality has been under debate ... men are created equal?” Could society adapt? It would probably take generations. Its a slow process to eliminate old ideas and believes that have been engraved into our society for centuries. In the time of slavery, many slaveholders justified their economic system by attacking the philosophy of the free labor North. James Henry Hammond believed that the ‘’North had abolished the name of slavery but not the thing (document 10).’’ ...
- 198: Frederic Douglass
- ... to make sure each specific right is spelled out, it would seem obvious that the freedom to belong to yourself was one of those rights. This is why it is so outlandish and hipocrtitical that slavery existed in America. Frederick Douglas was born a slave and shipped around the country just as a piece of property. From the time he was a young boy he had a notion of what being ... free was a god given right or "Law of nature", as Jefferson so eloquently stated in the Declaration of Independence. With all of this is mind it is very clear Douglass being born in to slavery was a deifinite failure of the American Dream. In the Declaration of Independence one of the most famous portions goes as follows: "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created ... got his first taste of freedom he had to be deceptive in sneaking away from his owner, just as the writers of the constution were deceptive in their defintion of "man". Once Douglass escaped from slavery he was surprised to find that the north also a very racist place. Not only did the majority of northern whites still feel that blacks were inferiour, New York was full of people looking ...
- 199: Political Parties
- ... 1844 the Whig candidate, Henry Clay, lost to James Polk, but four years later Zachary Taylor won for the Whigs. Meanwhile a social force greater than party loyalty was beginning to reshape American politics. The slavery issue, by the passions it aroused in the North and the South, gradually compelled a realignment of parties. The Whigs doomed their party in 1852 by taking a compromising stand on slavery. During the next few years most Southern Whigs joined the Democrats. Northern Whigs joined Northern antislavery Democrats to form today's Republican party. In 1854 small groups of men met in Ripon, Wis., Jackson, Mich., and elsewhere to urge creation of a new political party opposed to the extension of slavery. In 1856 this newly formed Republican party chose John C. Fremont as its presidential candidate. He lost to the Democratic nominee, James Buchanan. By 1860 the Democrats were split on the slavery issue. Four ...
- 200: Lipset's American Creed
- ... of Lipset's argument, especially the concepts of egalitarianism and populism. Take, for example, The Deforming Mirror of Truth, the introduction to a book by Nathan Huggins entitled Black Odyssey: The African-American Ordeal in Slavery. This introduction focuses on how slavery fit into the national consciousness. Without a doubt, there is a powerful abnormality in the founding of America. The documents establishing a country where all men are created equal neglect to address, or even mention ... those people whose lives were "merely the extension of the master's will" (Huggins xiv). Indeed, this suggests that the Founding Fathers had an "out of sight, out of mind" mentality towards the issue of slavery. While Huggins understands why the Founding Fathers may have elected to ignore the issue, he hardly thinks that it was a good idea. "It encouraged the belief that American history-its institutions, its values, ...
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