While the white men were fighting, the slaves had to continue laboring on farms or supporting the South’s war efforts. The typical Southern slave owner had maybe one or two slaves, and the typical white Southern male owned none. The men of the slave states were either, artisans, mechanics, or more frequently, a small farmer. This reality is very important in understanding why white Southerners went to war to defend slavery in 1861. The fear of slave rebellion distracted both the Southern slaveholder and the Northern invader.
It threw many people together from various backgrounds who might not have met if not for the war.- Working class and middle class, black and white, different religions and ethnic groups. The African Americans fought in the war for their country and believed that their contribution to the war should get them recognized as American citizens. They were recognized as heroes, but couldn’t be served in restaurants back home. In the UK, it is popularly believed that for the first time, wealthy middle class country dwellers actually got to see the state of poor town children who were evacuated out of the town because of threat of bombing. Women, also, had been forced to do former men's work: munitions, farming, factory work etc.
There was a time in history when “Black men were encouraged to marry white women in order to enrich the slavemaster’s plantation with more human labor” (Black Women’s Liberation). The black men back then could choose anyone they wanted for a mate while “Black women had little choice in selection for her mate” (Black women’s Liberation). Now, things are different. Black women do have a selection and they tend to emasculate the men of their choice. There is a new movement for black women and “Women in the women’s liberation movement assert that they are tired of being slaves to their husbands.
The search for labor in southern states eventually led the states to do something they didn’t intend on doing. With the great demand for tobacco from states like Virginia and Maryland, and the large demand for sugar cane from the West Indies, the settlers were forced to turn to slave labor. They played a small role at first in the southern states, but eventually made up a large percentage of these areas populations. Georgia and North Carolina opposed slavery, but were unable to compete with the other states crop production. English settlers in Virginia and later Maryland around the Chesapeake Bay area discovered a crop from the Indians known as tobacco.
Slave masters were under the impression that slaves were having church so when caught, of course slaves had to ‘pay the price’. Slaves were punished physically and sometimes even murdered for this small act. “The master might claim the body of his property but could never quite claim their soul” (L.Rivers) Slavery was controlled in many different ways so no one could actually subdue this epidemic. However, the article shows how master to slave relationships were in Florida. Slaves were simply to obey their masters and do whatever what asked of them.
It was said that rock ‘n’ roll posed a threat because black and white working class performers who had southern roots and dialects could be successful among the middle-class audience. This challenged the entertainment industry because they had to look for the next person that was going to be a hit. They went on to exploit small groups that would make them money, making sure they were gained control over rock ‘n’ rolls subculture style. They wanted to target the middle-class white people but instead they decided to take care of the more extreme aspects of the music. In my opinion I think Elvis was both an appropriator and transgressor.
The way Dolphus Raymond lives is completely opposite to the values that the Maycomb people tend to follow. Because Dolphus Raymond was a respectable man by Maycomb principles and chose to live with black people over white people, this shows Scout that there must be some appeal to black people. A prosperous guy from a long line of well-off men supposedly endangered his marriage to have a fling with a black woman. After ruining his marriage he went on to live with black people. If African Americans were truly mediocre and a threat to a happy life, then why would Dolphus go off and live with them?
The northern states where anti slavery and the southern states were pro slavery. Because the south’s economic structure needed slaves for plantations and the north was more industrialized. slavery was frowned upon in the north .and in the south slavery was veiwed as a way of life .. As America expanded over time the two sides fought for power. Each side had their own beliefs about t slavery but no one could come to a compromise. Before the civil war abolitionists and activist in politics such as William Steward tries to expand the abolishing of slavery by saying s “the country is a theater that
Furthermore in the Southern states of USA the abolition movement was resented. Plantation owners were unwilling to end slavery because it provided them with a free labour force. Many white Americans had justified slavery by thinking of slaves as racially inferior, as people without human needs, rights or dignity. The legal system had supported these racist views, and the rights of the plantation owners for many years. After 1890 many Southern governments passed a series of laws that set up a system of segregation that would last until the mid-twentieth century.
He experienced the American slavery, escaped from it, and attached himself to the cause of freedom and the helping of his people to achieve freedom. Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, a slave on a plantation in Tuckahoe, one of the worst sections of Talbot county on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. He changed his name upon his escape from slavery to avoid being recognized as a fugitive slave. The land where he was raised was virtually worthless, decay and poverty were everywhere. The area was surrounded by a white population who was of the lowest class-economically, educationally as well as socially.