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- 521: Biography of Robert E. Lee
- ... and returned to his regiment in Texas. When Texas seceded from the Union in 1861, Lee was called to Washington D.C. to wait for further orders. Unlike many Southerners, Lee did not believe in slavery and did not favor secession. He felt that slavery had an evil effect on masters as well as slaves. Long before the war, he had freed the few slaves whom he had inherited. Lee greatly admired George Washington, and hated the thought of a ...
- 522: Lincoln At Gettysburg-the Mani
- ... gruesome battle. Instead he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom". By tracing its first birth to the Declaration of Independence (which called all men equal) rather than to the Constitution (which tolerated slavery). In the space of a mere 272 words, Lincoln brought to bear the rhetoric of the Greek Revival, the categories of Transcendentalism, and the imagery of the "rural cemetery" movement. In his book, Gary wills ... but also to the power of language itself, which sometimes compromises the mind in order to save the soul. For Example, depending on the state he was giving a speech, Lincoln would advocate or reject slavery in order to capture the audience's attention, therefore, compromising his thought process with his beliefs. To extract the original context and relevance of an American institution, Lincoln, in his account of the Battle of ...
- 523: 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 ...
- 524: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... presenting ideas in an expressive style. He wrote about numerous issues including nature, society, conspiracy and freedom. After returning to America after a visit to England, he wrote for the abolitionist cause, which was eliminating slavery. Emerson used these ideas in his 1837 lecture "The American Scholar," which he presented before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard. In it he talked about Americans becoming more intelligently independent. In a second ... sought to develop and synthesize the metaphysical ideas of Plato" (Encarta). Ralph Waldo Emerson found motivation to write in anything he did, whether it was visiting England, the Transcendental Movement or if it was abolishing slavery. He didnt receive much fame during his lifetime, but after he passed away in1882, he was remembered for all of his writing, not just one good essay. "Emerson was the most important figure during ...
- 525: The Comparison and Contrasting of the Masters of Fredrick Douglass
- ... with blood (3). Remember Douglass was very young at the time. I believe this was one of meanest men in his life. The importance of this relationship was that Douglass would gain stronger view towards slavery and its misfortunes. This would also drive his want for freedom. Douglass eventually becomes the property Thomas Auld of who loans him to his brother Hugh Auld. Keep in mind Lucretia could be Douglass ... religious man, Douglass said religious slave owner are the meanest of all, Douglass explains, If at any one time of my life more than another, I was never made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was during the first six months of my stay with Mr. Covey (37). After the fight with Covey, Douglass was treated far better; I think Covey was afraid of him to an extent ...
- 526: Henry David Thoreau
- ... he should have to pay the tax, he had never voted, and he knew that such a purely political tax had to be affiliated with the funding of the Mexican War and the subsistence of slavery, both of which he strongly objected to (Derleth 66). The following morning Thoreau was released because someone, probably his Aunt Maria Thoreau, had paid his back taxes (68). This imprisonment compelled Thoreau to write "Civil ... and responsibility. It urged the individual to follow the dictates of conscience in any conflict between itself and civil law, and to violate unjust laws to invoke their repeal. Throughout his life, Thoreau protested against slavery by lecturing, by abetting escaped slaves in their decampment to freedom in Canada, and by outwardly defending John Brown when he made his hapless attack on Harpers Ferry in 1859 (2). Walden is conceivably Thoreau ...
- 527: Ida B. Wells
- ... a great spokesperson. She also held positions throughout her life that allowed her to learn a lot about lynching. She was fueled by her natural drive to search for the truth. Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Her father, James Wells, was a carpenter and her mother was a cook. After the Civil War her parents became politically active. Her father was known as race man, a term ... be able to speak with authority. As Ida B. Wells was going through this, it was at the same time that all woman, black and white, were experiencing suffrage. There was a striking similarity between slavery and woman oppression. The bottom line was that women had no authority. An example of this is that even if a woman worked outside the home, all her earnings would legally go to the head ...
- 528: Thomas Jefferson: The Man, The Myth, and The Morality
- ... so Jefferson was surrounded by them from the time of his birth in 1743 until the day he died. One of the harshest criticisms of Jefferson comes from the fact that, while he vehemently opposed slavery, was indeed a slave owner himself. As historian Douglas L. Wilson points out in his Atlantic Monthly article Thomas Jefferson and the Character Issue, the question should be reversed: ...This was of asking the question ... a man who was born into a slave holding society, whose family and admired friends owned slaves, who inherited a fortune that was dependent on slaves and slave labor, decide at an early age that slavery was morally wrong and forcefully declare that it ought to be abolished? (Wilson 66). Wilson also argues that Jefferson knew that his slaves would be better off working for him than freed in a world ...
- 529: John Wilkes Booth
- ... with a mission) is known as killing one of our U . S presidents, Abraham Lincoln. How did he do it when did he do it and where did he do it at? Lincoln helping abolish slavery state by state to try to stop the civil war. John Wilkes Booth as he was known as a professional actor before the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Today his life is often forgotten and is ... 15, 1865. The assassinater John Wilkes Booth completed his so called mission, with the help of a few people. A conspires maybe, of those on the side of evil who believe that we should have slavery today. The KKK who are racists might look back on the day of the death of Lincoln. So do you think this was morale right think on the side of booth North and South back ...
- 530: Sarah (Moore) and Angelina (Emily) Grimke
- ... there strengthened their independent thinking skills. The sisters were unhappy with the Society of Friends, due to the strict regulations they lived under. Soon afterward both sisters moved to North Carolina to join the Anti-Slavery movement. In 1835 Angelina wrote a letter of support to Abolitionist leader William Lloyd Garrison who published it in his newspaper The Liberator. The following year, 1836, she composed a thirty page pamphlet entitled An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South. This pamphlet urged southern women to persuade their influential husbands to re-examine the morality of the slavery institution. A similar plea was made towards the Southern Church institutions months later in An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States. Though praised by other abolitionists in the free states, officials in South ...
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