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- 501: The Civil War
- ... Union control. Although the proclamation did not free all slaves everywhere, it was the action that would push Congress to pass the thirteenth amendment in 1865. The amendment, ratified later in 1865, stated that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude . . . shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." It seemed democracy had triumphed by giving freedom to slaves, but the amendment was not complete. It only stopped slavery, and made no provisions for citizenship; therefore, blacks were still not considered United States citizens. The fourteenth amendment was the democratic expansion that fixed that problem. Originally passed to "put a number of matters beyond ...
- 502: Vonnegut's Portrayal of Society in Breakfast of Champions
- ... sport, for the thrill of the hunt. They merely lived off the land being kind to all things. "The sea pirates were white. The people who were already on the continent were copper-colored. When slavery was introduced onto the continent, the slaves were black. Color was everything" (11). Vonnegut's basic description of early America is sadly true. The newcoming Europeans thought that they were a superior race of beings, and that they had the right to enslave others and force them to do their bidding or be punished. Even after slavery was eliminated, whites looked down on other races, referring to them as unfeeling, ignorant, labor machines (11). According to Vonnegut, the United States is the core of a materialistic race of beings. Efficiency is rewarded ...
- 503: Jim's Role in Huckleberry Finn
- ... Jim values his freedom greatly. Once he has experienced a kind of freedom, he understands all the better what he has been deprived of, and isn't willing to go back to the chains that slavery give him. It also shows that slaves were human. If slaves could feel fear and understand the consequences of getting caught running away, then it follows that they could feel other emotions. Bronowski said, "Only ... solid in Huck's life, and whether or not he is a slave doesn't matter at all. The end of the book though, raises some odd questions. The entire section where Jim is in slavery again is tough to read. Jim is free! The entire "escape" is unnecessary, yet Tom persists in it anyway, even making it harder, to make it into a "grand adventure." Now though, Huck is changed ...
- 504: The Red Badge Of Courage
- ... Civil War never took place or if the South had won? Just the thought of it makes me feel ill. There would be so many things different than they are now. Would there still be slavery? Would it spread to the western United States? The Civil War shaped this country's moral beliefs in that it will not tolerate slavery. What would the government be like? Would there be communism? Would there be worldwide chaos? These are some of the questions that come to my mind when I think about if there was no Civil ...
- 505: South Africa
- ... million Britidh pounds. After 1820 thousands of British colonists arrived in South Africa, and they demanded that English law be imposed. English became the official language in 1822. The Khoi/San were given protection, and slavery was abolished in 1833. When the Dutch, or the Afrikanns found out that slavery was ebolished they got angry, because they thoght that the Bilble said that black people were supposed to be slaves, which then created the Boer war. It is now 1948, the Europeans have now taken ...
- 506: Black Boy
- ... the culprits of racism labeling the very association with Samaritans as a deep sin. In 1861_1865, the United States divided brother against brother in one of its bloodiest battles of all time over black slavery. Racism survives not simply as an intangible historic fable but as a real modern problem, also. In current civilization Arab Palestinians war with Israelis to find a homeland; the Ku Klux Klan draws its biggest ... accused of extolling racism in this "apartheid America." Although less subtle in the lives of Americans then, racism also thrived in the souls of people living during the 1920's. Even though the war on slavery was over in the battle fields, white racists were blood thirsty lions at heart, as was demonstrated in the book Black Boy. The setting of Black Boy is in the deep south of Jackson, Mississippi ...
- 507: Jane Austen: Background of Her Novels
- ... been used to draw connections between the "genteel" rural English society that Jane Austen describes and the outside world, since Fanny's uncle is a slave-owner (with an estate in Antigua in the Caribbean; slavery was not abolished in the British empire until 1833). Like a number of other topics, Jane Austen only chose to allude glancingly to the slave trade and slavery in her novels, though she was aware of contemporary debates on the subject. Mansfield Park was one of only two of Jane Austen's novels to be revised by her after its first publication, when ...
- 508: Jefferson Davis
- ... Vista, where he was wounded. He was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1847 to 1857, and a U.S. Senator again from 1857 to 1861. As a Senator, he was in support of slavery and states' rights. "He also influenced Pice to sign in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which favored the South and increased the bitterness of the struggle over slavery. (Encarta, Davis Jefferson. 97)" In his second term as a Senator he became the spokesman for the Southern point of view. He opposed the idea of secession from the Union as a way of maintaining ...
- 509: Herbert Spencer
- ... what they had originally been. Therefore, the English Conservative would become the party of economic individualism and free enterprise, whereas the Liberals would accept public control of the economy. The second essay is "The Coming Slavery." In it, Spencer refocus on the necessity that the laws of the society must not be interfered with the beneficent process of the survival of the fittest, and that interference with natural selection lowers the ... state will take care of them, and therefore, they lose the spirit of initiative and enterprise. Spencer predicted that social-welfare programs would lead to socialization of the means of production, and "all socialism is slavery." Spencer defines a slave as a person who "labors under coercion to satisfy anothers desires." Under socialism or communism the individual would be enslaved to the whole community rather than to a single master ...
- 510: Sojourner Truth
- Sojourner Truth Sojourner truth was born into slavery in Hurley, Ulster County, New York and given the name was Isabella. In 1828 she was freed, when New York emancipated slaves. She heard voices she believed were god. She preached to people in the ... was well known for her speeches and although she couldnt read or write her whole life she was one of the most determined speakers this country has ever known. Sojourner truth was born into slavery in Hurley, Ulster County, New York and given the name was Isabella. In 1828 she was freed, when New York emancipated slaves. She heard voices she believed were god. She preached to people in the ...
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