Soon after the war, Confederates began being pardoned and accepted back into the Union as citizens. Thomas Nast’s cartoon, “Shall I Trust This Man, and Not This Man” fostered the dilemma of what should America do with the newly freed slaves and the ex-Confederates. The first image depicts Columbia sitting before many former Confederates who are begging her for forgiveness and for their re-admission into the Union. The bottom caption indicates Columbia debating whether or not she should trust them. The second picture depicts an African-American amputee.
It starts when Captain Shaw fought in the battle of Antietam and is wounded. He is later awaken by a black grave digger named John Rawlins and sent to a battle field hospital. While there Shaw learns of President Lincoln passing the Emancipation Proclamation, which would free the slaves in rebel held territory. While on medical leave Shaw is offered the rank of Colonel and the position of command over the first all-black regiment. Shaw accepts and offers his childhood friend, Cabot Forbes the position of second in command.
The movie “Glory” tells the history and the story of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. It became the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War. Mathew Broderick played as the main character of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, which is told mainly through his eyes. The movie showed his leadership and earned respect, by admitting his mistakes, and by putting what’s best for their followers and the organization ahead of their personal decisions. Colonel Shaw first was treating his soldiers more like slaves and not men.
“Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts,” written by Bruce Catton compares and contrasts the lives and characteristics of two Civil War leaders. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, two very strong and very different generals, met on April 9, 1865 to essentially end the Civil War. America is a country starting over with a simple core belief of equal rights. Lee, from Virginia, has traditional beliefs, culture and tradition. Lee believed in the idea that having unequal, set social categories provided an advantage to society.
Joshua Civic Dr. Masembe ENC1101 18 October 2011 “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”(Martin Luther King Jr., I Have A Dream). Race has stirred conflicts since the dawn of America. Many a great people have died in the fight against racism. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, freed the slaves with the passing of the emancipation proclamation. Lincoln was assassinated and died on April 14, 1865.
Kendal Hiatt Mrs. Hamilton AP Lang, 5th September 22, 2014 Analysis Essay (RD 2) Will Rogers once wrote, “We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.” In a millennium where free men lacked full freedom, recognizing the rights of others holds importance when looking towards African Americans and their role in the Union. In his speech to his fellow African Americans, Alfred M. Green’s inspiring call to action is presented through the use of strategic organization, shifting tone, and powerful appeals implicating the necessity of their military service in the Union (parallelism). In the first section of the passage, Green addresses the dreary past that the African Americans, including himself,
Jelani Poston University of Arkansas - Fort Smith Professor Crane November 2012 Civil War and Reconstruction Era Assignment# 2 In the journal A Man but Not a Brother Abraham Lincoln and Racial Equality George M. Fredrickson is trying to prove that Lincoln didn’t have his own racial attitude toward slavery. Frederickson allows the reader to understand where Lincoln’s racial views come from. Clay’s racial beliefs toward slavery really created Lincoln beliefs. “In one of the debates with Stephen A. Douglass in 1858 Lincoln described Clay as “my beau ideal of a statesman, in the man for whom I fought all of my humble life.” (Pg40-41) This statement allows the reader to understand the racial views of Lincoln. Lincoln was a racial separationist.
Jim burg Dr.Thibeault English 1101 February 5, 2001 The Unanswered Question Reparation is an individual proposal from the federal government to pay for the unpaid labor of slavery. The U.S. government’s original plan to repay African Americans for slavery was “40 acres and a mule”. To show faith from the government, General Sherman set aside land on the coast of South Carolina and Georgia for freedmen to settle. But, in 1865, after the Confederates States of America were defeated, and the death of Lincoln; President Andrew Johnson returned the land back to its previous owners. The effects of slavery hurt African Americans in many aspects of life due to the unresolved question on reparations.
He married into an abolitionist family, and was greatly effected by his father-in-law and well-known abolitionists such as Frederick Douglas. After slavery was abolished, he began to write books pertaining to the discrimination and prejudice against not only blacks, but also Chinese and other immigrant groups. Books such as Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy detail and condemn such pejorative actions and feelings towards people unfairly deemed inferior. He wrote an anti-lynching editorial called Only a Nigger in 1869, further denouncing the racism in the country at the time. His idea of slavery had changed very much by the time he wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
“Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts,” written by Bruce Catton compares and contrasts the lives and characteristics of two Civil War leaders. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, two very strong and very different generals, met on April 9, 1865 to essentially end the Civil War. America is a country starting over with a simple core belief of equal rights. Lee, from Virginia, has traditional beliefs, culture and tradition. Lee believed in the idea that having unequal, set social categories provided an advantage to society.