The author of these pages wanted us to focus our attention on all the hardship that African Americans had to endure whether slave or free. The author stayed to the facts of the Fugitive Slave Acts. I have picked this subject matter to write about because I can’t put myself in this time of history. Going to school in Ohio, we studied about Oberlin and Wellington. These two places helped a slave escape a federal marshal so he couldn’t return the slave back to the South.
Their goal was to abolish slavery completely and prevent it from harming many people. By sacrificing their lives into the war, this shows how devoted they are to putting an end to slavery even though the Reconstruction failed. The filmmakers’ goals when making this movie were to show how slavery was the reason why the Civil War was being fought. Throughout the movie, the African American soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry underwent harsh training as well as being treated unequally. They were used for manual labor and nothing else until Robert Gould Shaw stepped up for the soldiers to have them fight in the war.
Harriet Ross was born in a Maryland Plantation in 1820. Her parents were from a tribe of West Africa. Harriet’s master was strict and made her sleep on the kitchen floor, to keep warm she would put her feet in the fireplace ashes. Harriet was hired out by the age of 5. Harriet didn’t like to work indoors, and her masters always whipped her.
She was forces to enroll at La Maternite, a highly regarded midwifery school, in the summer of 1849. While she was attending to a child, about 4 month after enrolling, she inadvertently splashed some pus from the child's eye into her own left eye. She contracted ophthalmia neonatorum. This caused her not to be able to work, study or even read. She eventually had to remove her eye which made it impossible to become a surgeon.
Vanessa AP US History Period 3 Mr. Catalinich 31 January 2012 Events in the 1850’s that Contributed to the Causes of the Civil War In order to get back their “property”, the South pushed Congress to pass the Fugitive Law of 1850 as a part of the Great Compromise that postponed war between the North and South for four years. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was mostly aimed at the Northern States, requiring all citizens of America to find runaway slaves, regardless of their moral beliefs. The South viewed slaves not as human beings, but as property to be kept, sold, or even killed. It forced the North to become a part of the “slave system” even though they had clearly taken no part in any ownership. Those who tried to help slaves escape
My name is Elliot Roosevelt, the third born son of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and I’d like to thank everyone for coming today to show their respect for my mother. Today, November 7th, 1962 we are here to bid farewell to a strong, kindhearted, compassionate woman, wife, and mother. She has passed away from bone marrow cancer but that never stopped her heart from touching so many lives. Eleanor was a woman with great sensitivity to the civil rights of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lives has made her one of the most loved, and one of the most revered women of her generation.
Free now both physically and mentally she began to write her narrative. She wanted people in the North to know the inhumanity slaves endured, especially women. The sexual abuse contents of her narrative kept it from being published for many years. Excerpts are published by Horace Greeley in The New Tribune. Greeley opposed slavery as morally deficient and economically regressive, and during the 1850s, he supported the movement to prevent its extension.
She got involved with the city’s large and active anti-slavery organizations and also with the organizers of the Underground Railroad. Using the checkpoint of Abolitionist Tomas Garrett’s home in Wilmington, Delaware Harriet managed to undertake some twenty dangerous missions where she journeyed to the south, found slaves, and led them to freedom in the north, sometimes even as far as Canada. She carried a long rifle in hand on her journeys, always warning the slaves that if they were to return or surrender their penalty would be death. Her persuasiveness made her never lose a “passenger” on the Underground Railroad. Harriet received nicknames like “Moses” and “General Tubman” because of her bravery and hard work during these journeys.
Harriet Tubman was born in 1819 in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was born into slavery. Harriet’s birth name was originally Araminta Ross, given to her by her parents who were also African and slaves. Araminta didn’t have the normal childhood, being brought up in slavery was one of the harshest things a child could go through. She was regularly beaten and whipped by her owners, froze every night, she would even stick her feet in the fire just to keep warm and not get frost bite.
Unlike most of the slaves whose lives were wiped off, Jacobs knew herself and her family pretty well. She didn’t even know she was a slave before the age six which was very rare. "[We] lived together in a comfortable home," she wrote in her autobiography, "and, though we were all slaves, I was so fondly shielded that I never dreamed that I was a piece of merchandise." Even after her mother died, her mistress took care of her so that she could still have a good time. It didn’t last