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- 471: Proposal for Reparations of African Americans
- ... free. Many blacks, Freeman and Slaves alike were lynched, falsely imprisoned, raped, murdered, and subject to sub-human treatment. It is almost impossible to estimate the economic hardship caused by slavery and the aftermath that followed. To this day the African-American family still suffers from the aftermath of slavery. We see it in the form of Poverty, under-education, Discrimination, and Black on Black crime. Consider that Blacks are seriously under-represented in many of our nations top fields ... that money shall not be awarded and is not subject to inheritance. As for Moneys for family menders lynched, raped, or falsely imprisoned, this must be a direct result of slavery and most be proven beyond a preponderance of the evidence. Therefore, each state shall appoint a committee of six members, at least three of them being African-Americans. These ...
- 472: Wendell Phillips
- ... on November 29, 1811. He was a well-known American reformer. His career of attempting to reform American society spanned 47 years. He put most of his energy into opposing slavery and supporting women's right's, labor reform, and temperance. In 1865 he attacked the Constitution. He attacked it because it supported slavery. He had married Ann Terry Greene. Greene had been taught by William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison and Phillips became friends. As the Civil War approached he became more and more certain that violence must be employed to abolish slavery. When the war came he was at the head of the emancipation movement. In the years after the war Wendell Phillips demanded that actions be taken to protect blacks ...
- 473: The Prediction of 1984
- ... growing awareness of his resistance against the society, The totalitarian society is governed by the seemingly Oxymoron principles of “the three slogans of the party WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”2 By the totalitarian society , Oceania, being in a constant state of war, their economy never goes down for lack of demand on a supply. Furthermore, because ... they did in the French Revolution. The people are then at peace with their government because of the war situation and therefore ‘WAR IS PEACE’. The second slogan ‘FREEDOM IS SLAVERY,’ relates to the complete control the totalitarian government of Oceania has on its people. The freedom of Oceania has, is that, “nothing was illegal, since there are no longer any ... they did not have laws the people had no rights. Since the citizens did not have rights because there are no laws, the “FREEDOM” of having no laws became the “SLAVERY” of having no rights. ‘IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH’ is the last of the three party slogans that demonstrates Oceania’s totalitarian society. The government of Oceania , created a new language ...
- 474: Harriet Tubman
- ... Harriet Tubman. Her efforts in the Underground Railroad and in the Civil War strengthened the abolitionist movement by accomplishing the goal it was intended to do: free slaves and abolish slavery. (www.teleport.com p.4) Arminta Ross was born a slave in 1820 on a plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland. At age 6, she was considered old enough to work ... 10, 1913, Harriet died of pneumonia. She was 93 years old. (www.incwell.com p.2) Harriet Tubman was a major influence on the Abolitionist Movement. She felt that if slavery was non-existent, then her past was really behind her and she could live her life as a free citizen of the United States. Harriet Tubman helped open the eyes of people all over America and helped them in understanding why slavery was immoral. (www.teleport.com p.4)
- 475: 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 ...
- 476: John Wilkes Booth
- ... 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 ... 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 ...
- 477: Thomas Jefferson: The Man, The Myth, and The Morality
- ... 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 ... 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 ...
- 478: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- ... of her church. In 1826 Elizabeth then anonymously published her collection An Essay on Mind and Other Poems. Two years after that her mother passed away. The slow abolition of slavery in England and mismanagement of the plantations depleted the Barrett's income. In 1832 Elizabeth's father sold his rural estate at a public auction. He moved his family to ... live in her father's London house under his tyrannical rule. He began sending Elizabeth's younger siblings to Jamaica to help with the family's estates. Elizabeth bitterly opposed slavery and did not want her siblings sent away. During this time, she wrote The Seraphim and Other Poems (1838), expressing Christian sentiments in the form of classical Greek tragedy. Due ...
- 479: Ida B. Wells
- ... 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 ... 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 ...
- 480: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... 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 ... 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 didn’t receive much fame during his lifetime, but after he passed away in 1882, he was remembered for all of his writing, not just one good essay. “Emerson ...
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