The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: The Final Step in Becoming a Free Man For to be free is not merely to cast off oner’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others (Nelson Mandela). Born in 1818, Frederick Douglass was a biracial slave in the […]
Frederick Douglass’s, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, is an important historical novel following the life of a prominent American figure. Despite the many hardships Douglass faced throughout his early life in slavery, he fought hard to become educated, and fight slavery academically. Douglass later had prominent careers as a writer, statesman, preacher and […]
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Get startedAround 1818, at Talbot County Maryland, a man named Frederick Bailey (mother’s name) was conceived from Native American, African, and European ancestors. He was isolated from his mom as a newborn child and moved with his maternal grandmother. At six years old he was put into work as a slave at the Wye House plantation. […]
Who was Frederick Douglass and why is he so important you may ask? Well, Frederick Douglass was a African American slave who escaped slavery using a sailorr’s uniform and fake identification papers. He had made two previous failed attempts when he was in his teenage years. When he escaped, he wrote an autobiography called the […]
Slavery is a tough time in history for Americans to look back on, but it doesn’t mean we get to erase it from history. Beginning in the mid-1600s the enslavement of African Americans began. Slave owners were brutal and stripped their slaves of their humanity. As the Northern part of the country began to thrive […]
The best way to think about the Civil War in general terms is as the Second Act of Americas Democratic revolution. The first act was freeing itself from the control of the British empire in the 1770s and the second act was removing the massive contradiction between the rhetoric of American freedom and the reality […]
We have many important works in American Literature that have long been a part of our standard materials in the school curriculum. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is one of the most famous, well written, and controversial works in American Literature. Lionel Trifling and T.S. Elliot were greatly influential in ensuring that […]
In view of this, the battle was also heightened by a combination of several sociopolitical circumstances. Secession. The split between the southern states and the northern states became evident when the southern decided to disaffiliate (“Civil war”). However, the president responded that the decision had no logical backing, making it illegal to separate and form […]
In his second inaugural address in March 1865, Abraham Lincoln looked back at the beginning of the Civil War four years earlier. All knew, he said, that slavery was somehow the cause of the war (Brinkley, 372). Barely any historians question the fundamental actuality of Lincoln’s announcement, however they have differed strongly about whether slavery, […]
The Civil war impacted the world by creating challenges such as death, racism, and things that did not have a solution because of the lack of supplies that was provided. The things and people such as Abraham Lincoln, Jim Crows, and War Soldiers took a big part in the Civil War Because of their choices […]
The civil war was a major point in American history. It was the breaking point of the United States of America and determined the future of America. Imagine the Union army not winning the American Civil War, where would America be today? Understanding the causes that led to the Civil War and the outcome it […]
The civil war was one of the biggest events our nation edured. Four years of gruesome battle over freedom and equality. It changed our nation and it changed us. The war itself started in 1861 on April 12th. However the issues of the civil war started long before that. The consequences would last centuries. In […]
The Civil War was and is one of the most outstanding events in the history of the United States. It was a military conflict that occurred in the United States, between 1861 and 1865 (when Abraham Lincoln is elected president). Where the North States fought against the Confederate States of America, composed of the countries […]
In 1861 the Civil War commenced, but why? Yes you may know some little tidbits but do you know the real reasons? Well yes slavery caused it, but why did the north not like it? You may think its pretty self explanatory, but why did the south like it and the north was so strongly […]
Visibility and Viability: A Journey of being Black in America What it means to be Black in America is contingent on both race and class; Race has been the primary factor used to shape the identity of African Americans within society and is equally responsible for their lack thereof. Despite progression Blacks are still subjected […]
From April 12, 1861 to May 9, 1865, the civil war had a lasting impact on the North and the South and their individual attitudes towards slavery. This idea is evident in a series of letters that were gathered from that period. The first letter was written by James Henry Gooding, a Massachusetts Black Corporal […]
The abolitionist movement in the early 1800s caused disagreement over the morality of slavery and played a vital role on peoples religious beliefs and how they manage to justify their actions. Religious leaders convinced Americans that religion was central to the American culture, and without religion there couldnt be a system of morals and ethics […]
Europeans saw the tribal lifestyles lived by the Africans in the 16th century. Regardless of the criticisms of Europeans toward the African civilization, Africans were already established as much as Europeans were. Most African villages were under a communal system in which everyone was under the impression that they shared their personal belongings and possessions […]
The Civil War is one of the most important events in the history of the United States of America. It had many important repercussions which went on to have a deep and long lasting impact on the nation. After four years of a cruel battle, from 1861-1865, between a divided nation of the North and […]
Historically war has proven to be an excellent facilitator in the spread of disease. War takes advantage of the crowded unsanitary conditions wounded soldiers are placed in. The movement of sick troops from one base to another spreads any infectious diseases from person to person often unexpectedly. The American Civil War was no exception to […]
The Contention of The Common War There had been numerous great misconstruing among North and South in the years that hinted at the Common War, however the most appalling misconception of all was that neither one of the sides acknowledged, until the point that it was past the point of no return, that the opposite […]
He made me his slave. He broke me down. He took my heart, mind, and soul. says Diana Bolivar who was held hostage in sex trafficking for two years in Colombia (Orlando Sentinel). Human trafficking is sexual slavery, and it is still a human rights issue that affects millions of lives every day. Traffickers know […]
The fifteenth century marks the introduction of human trafficking in the Americas. Slavery still exists in the United States, and in other countries, and governments are not doing enough about it. Those who think that slavery in America ended with the creation of the 13th amendment couldn’t be farther from the truth. To fully understand […]
To the dismay of many people, human trafficking is a huge problem in America. Most people would like you to believe that things like that don’t happen here, that is something that happens in other countries, poorer countries, not the U.S. of A. It has become such an epidemic here, that it can no longer […]
There are many social issues that America is experiencing each day. Thousands of people are suffering from these problems, and the number continues to increase each day. One of these issues is human trafficking. Human trafficking is a terrible problem that needs to be stopped, and yet it continues to take place in our world […]
The degradation of the human body, the force used to control them through fear, and the false promises of a better future is the use of manipulation seen in the traffickers to recruit young women and men. Human trafficking is our form of modern slavery today and its origin can be traced back to the […]
What made the American Revolution, so revolutionary was the independence America gained after defeating Great Britain, and the disappearance of nobility thereafter. Because America had won the war, change had swept the nation unlike ever before. America officially becoming a republic after breaking away from Great Britain, which at the time of the revolution had […]
The American Revolution is not an accurate name for what transpired in North America in the 1770’s to the 1780’s. A far more accurate name for what went down would be: The White American Revolution. The American Revolution in many ways reinforced the Patriot’s relationship and commitment of that relationship to slavery. That’s not to […]
After the American Revolution there was a slow change occuring in the new nation. New ideas in the minds of citizens. Views on women and slaves were changing mostly for the better. New state constitutions allowing new rights. Freedom of religion being brought to the nation at last. Although many things had stayed the same […]
African American history leading up to the Civil War, and beyond, is most commonly identified by its reaction to oppression from the nation’s white majority. This relationship caused gender roles in African American society to be formed in a similarly reactionary way; the way African American men and women acted in every part of society […]
