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- 221: Causes of Civil War
- ... died grew a greater sense of nationalism than is today, unrivalled around the world. The American Civil War is interpreted differently by many historians but most see the catalyst as slavery, the motivation as economic, the outcome was unified national identity. Slavery was a major issue that triggered the American Civil War. Slavery started out, as a few individual slaves coming from England that were generally white. This changed however, and soon the Southern slave traders began "stealing" blacks to take back ...
- 222: Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was a great man who rose from extremely humble beginnings in Kentucky to become the president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln’s views on slavery rooting from his childhood as well as his life extending to his assassination greatly influenced the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in a ... 1846 Lincoln ran for congressman he won by a large majority and was sent off to Washington (Stefoff 64). While in Washington Lincoln worked vigorously to try to slowly end slavery. His plan did not work. When Abraham realized that the only way he could stop slavery was if he had Power, he decided to run for president of the United States. The Republican Party sponsored Lincoln and his opponent was Stephen A. Douglas. During the ...
- 223: Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass What is slavery? Why am I a slave? Frederick Douglass asks. These questions often troubled him for the answers. The standard answer was "God," but this did not satisfy Frederick. He rejected the answer, for it was not possible to reconcile his crude knowledge of goodness and God with the cruel realities of slavery. Throughout his whole narrative we find out the truth of exactly how he feels about slavery and how it all ties in with Christianity. He has several instances and tones in which he talks about his views on all religion. "What I have said respecting ...
- 224: Abraham Lincoln: Biography
- Abraham Lincoln: Biography Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was very important to the past history of our country. He helped to abolish slavery in this country and kept the American Union from splitting apart during the Civil War. At 22, he moved to New Salem, Illinois. With his gift for swapping stories and ... law and became a lawyer. In 1847, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, but returned to his law practice until 1858, when his concern about the spread of slavery prompted him to return to national politics and run for the U.S. Senate. Lincoln rose to greatness from a humble beginning. Born in 1809 in a log cabin in ... childhood working on the family farm. He had less than a year of school but managed to educate himself by studying and reading books on his own. He believed that slavery and democracy were fundamentally incompatible. In an 1858 speech, he said: What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independance? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling ...
- 225: Beloved-Water Motif
- ... mother-in-law. On the way to freedom, a white girl named Amy Denver helped Sethe deliver her daughter, who she later names Denver. About a month after Sethe escapes slavery, schoolteacher found her and tried to bring her back. In fear that her children would be brought back into slavery, Sethe killed her older daughter and attempted to kill Denver and her boys. Sethe, along with Denver, was sent to prison and spent three months there. Buglar and Howard, her ... not only does she feel refreshed and anew, but this also signifies her freedom from Sweet Home. Morrison also uses the motif of water to represent freedom and escape from slavery. For Paul D., water was an essential part of obtaining his freedom from the prison camps in Alfred, Georgia. "It rained. In the boxes the men heard the water ...
- 226: The Adventures of Huck Finn: Jim Is A Hero
- ... of courage or nobility of purpose. The character of Jim in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain certainly fits that description. He risked his life in order to free himself from slavery, and in doing so, helps Huck to realize that he has worth. Huck becomes aware of Jim's sense of love and humanity, his basic goodness, and his desire to ... only seems to compound the validity of this statement. The third charictaristic that Jim exemplifies is a desire to help others. In Huckleberry Finn , Jim wishes to free himself from slavery. In doing so he enlists the help of Huck Finn. As they travel down the river, Jim sees that Huck will need some help understanding why he should be set free. Jim's objective is realized when he is sold back into slavery by the two frauds, the King and the Duke. Once Jim is sold back into slavery, Huck is left alone and begins to feel lonely without the presence of ...
- 227: The Missouri Compromise
- ... arranged it that while Missouri was admitted as a Slave state, Maine was also admitted as a free state. It also created an imaginary line along the 36o latitude, where slavery was allowed below it but prevented above it. However they limited themselves by only applying the Compromise to lands gained in the Louisiana purchase. This led to conflict after the ... Once again Henry Clay came up with a compromise to resolve this conflict. California would indeed be admitted as free while the rest of the Southwest territories would decide the slavery issue by popular sovereignty. It would also abolish slavery altogether in Washington DC and initiate a stronger fugitive slave law to appease the South. This last concession angered people in the North however. Free blacks were concerned as ...
- 228: African-Americans In The Civil War
- ... in America had been in bondage since early colonial times. In 1776, when Jefferson proclaimed mankind’s inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the institution of slavery had become firmly established in America. Blacks worked in the tobacco fields of Virginia, in the rice fields of South Carolina, and toiled in small farms and shops in the ... colonies to the North." The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 provided a demand for cotton thus increasing the demand for slaves. By the 1800’s slavery was an institution throughout the South, an institution in which slaves had few rights, and could be sold or leased by their owners. They lacked any voice in the government ... of outright rebellion in their analysis of the Nat Turner Rebellion, which took place in 1831. This revolt demonstrated that not all slaves were willing to accept this "institution of slavery" passively. Foner and Mahoney note that the significance of this uprising is found in its aftermath because of the numerous reports of "insubordinate" behavior by slaves. 8 Individual acts ...
- 229: Frederick Douglass' Dream for Equality
- ... dating from the early 1850's when Douglass had repudiated Garrisonian Disunionism. Garrisonians supported the idea of disunion. Disunion would have relieved the North of responsibility for the sin of slavery. It would have also ended the North's obligation to enforce the fugitive slave law, and encourage a greater exodus of fugitive slaves from the South. (161,162 Perry) Douglass did not support this idea because it would not result in the complete abolition of slavery. Blacks deserved just as much freedom as whites. He believed that the South had committed treason, and the Union must rebel by force if necessary. Astonished by Garrison's thoughts ... if all great things are privilege only to the whites? Douglass resolved never again to risk himself to betrayal. Troubled, Douglass did not lose faith in his beliefs of abolishing slavery. However, he did reinvent his thinking. Douglass eventually made his way with what amounted to the applied ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville and Fancis Grund, both of which were ...
- 230: Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was very important to the past history of our country. He helped to abolish slavery in this country and kept the American Union from splitting apart during the Civil War. At 22, he moved to New Salem, Illinois. With his gift for swapping stories and ... law and became a lawyer. In 1847, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, but returned to his law practice until 1858, when his concern about the spread of slavery prompted him to return to national politics and run for the U.S. Senate. Lincoln rose to greatness from a humble beginning. Born in 1809 in a log cabin in ... childhood working on the family farm. He had less than a year of school but managed to educate himself by studying and reading books on his own. He believed that slavery and democracy were fundamentally incompatible. In an 1858 speech, he said: What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independance? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling ...
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