Claudia Arribas Jan. 21, 2006 US History 9 Mr. Lazar The two sides of the Emancipation Proclamation Fear, from being lost in an unknown world with no place to go. Confusion, from not knowing what the future awaits. Astonishment, from knowing that the only dream you’ve aspired for many years has finally come true. That was all that milions of slaves could feel after being aware that they were free at last. But for many, the Emancipation Proclamation did not lead to happiness, but to a long dark journey that was even worst than staying as a slave.
They were still looked down upon and never were compensated for all of the things they had to deal with. Although in the current time, the Africans living now were not the ones to be enslaved, but I still feel like they need to be compensated because although they didn’t go through slavery, their ancestors did and they are affected by it this very day. Their ancestors were never repaid for all the things they had dealt with and some Africans are still treated with a bit cruelty by Americans. In the end, I strongly feel as there should be some compensation given to the African American’s. Out of all the horrible things they have had to deal with, I think we at least owe them a bit of reparation.
But how could they feel safe, without feeling free? In Mencken’s seventy-six years of age he assumed that he finally figured out what the average human longs for in life. In his opinion, it wasn’t freedom that was desired, but safety. However, the society that is lived in today is not one where a person could feel safe in an environment that they are not free in. During times of slavery, slaves did not sing songs to assist them in getting through the day or dream of a tomorrow where they would no longer be in captivity for the desire of safety.
Instead of the government allowing slavery, it looked like it found a loop hole to not treat people of color equally for anything whether it was sports, school or public facilities blacks were still treated as inferior. Thankfully the civil rights movement that occurred during the 1950’s and 1960’s would turn out successful after years of civil demonstrations (some which would become riots e.g. : Birmingham, Alabama), marches, and speeches. One might say that one of the most famous speeches of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech, would see fruition when looking at today’s society despite some traces of racism. Now we live in an era where different races can co-exist.
A lot of these masters had restrictions on the slaves, meaning the people were not allowed to get an education, or even learn to read. The masters fear that allowing the slaves to gain knowledge would cause many problems and give the slaves more reasons to rebel against them. The slaves were often provided with a little shack to stay in, and they were given scrap food and other things to making a living off of. Many of them were given land but they had to share crop to maintain this land with the owners. What is sharecropping?
The events that happened during the civil war are very crucial to the modern age. A lot of laws have been during the Civil War which is still respected even today. In the next few paragraphs I am going to talk about the events that helped to end the Civil War. Firstly, the slaves being free, is a very important event during the Civil War. From a long time President Lincoln believed that slavery was “wrong but necessary”.
Noah Hutchison – 010515520 HIST 4673 Dr. Sutherland 11/01/2012 Although President Lincoln’s executive order on January 1, 1863 freed the slaves, the emancipation was not an immediate change. While it changed the legal status of former slaves it did not change the attitudes held by many whites in not only the South but the North as well. It did however serve to give blacks a sense of hope and a bigger stake in the outcome of the war. The idea that after the proclamation the former slaves were looked upon and treated as actual free people is far from the actual truth. As many former slaves fled north, some slave owners attempted to take their slaves further into Confederate territory in an effort to keep them.
In hindsight we always see ourselves not always doing the right thing, but once we learn from our mistakes things are much easier. Creatively that relates a lot to the workplace in due to Affirmative Action. Courtney Bowie, a senior staff attorney with the American
Therefore they had no rights as citizens. In the years after the war they did gain some improvements and began to protest for more, but by 1955 this was not enough to make a difference. Black Americans were subjected to segregation. The ‘Jim Crow’ laws meant that they had to use separate diners, separate schools and separate transport. This was
Decision on slavery Slavery has been a controversial issue since the beginning of US history. The US government has not been able to effectively handle this situation, and the Civil War will not accomplish anything. The best solution to slavery is to gradually phase out slavery with compensation to slave owners. Doing this would restore the God given human rights to slaves, provide compensation for slave owners, and allow the economy to adapt. Southern politician Jefferson Davis said that “the proper condition of a negro is slavery.” This was the distorted view that kept slavery alive this whole time.