1. Introduction : (a) Slavery was a cycle that took many years and much hard work to bring it its abolishment. (b) There were many abolitionists that didn’t mind the consequences their actions would bring them; they knew it was right to speak out again and for what they believed. 2. Body Paragraph 1: (a) The Underground Railroad was a unique helpful strategy that helped free many enslaved blacks into freedom.
During this period there was a lot of movement was going on, for example cities taking a different shape and structure. There was higher education for women, and new constructions for the homes and roads. There was also a lot happening for the African American people. Unfortunately, it was a bit sad for the African women taking care of these children, because she had so many rules to follow from the master and his wife. 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.
How freedoms for African Americans were socially, politically, and economically limited from 1865 to 1900 After the Civil War ended with Union victory, constitutional amendments were ratified to grant equal rights and freedom to enslaved African Americans; however, these rights were limited, restricted by those discriminating against African Americans. This new opportunity, promising African Americans better lives soon turned into lives full of terror and poverty. Many were poor, segregated in public facilities, and harassed, threatened or beaten by White Supremacy terror groups. Instead of living hopeful lives full with prosperity the African Americans wished for, they struggled to survive under conditions that gave them as much freedom as slaves had. African Americans’ social rights were very limited partially because of the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Brought as slaves to American they have a long period of struggle to gain equality and social acceptance. They were deprived from any rights, were treated like animals and yet where expected to cope with society. Through the long struggles of many anti-segregation activists African Americans slowly but surely became to claim their rights not only as citizens but as human beings in this world. With the Civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream speech it gave rise to many hopes and opportunities that allowed African Americans gain their rights and their position in society.
Take Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for example, Dr. King played a significant role in the Civil Rights Movement that led to the desegregation of the South. There are some cities and states that refuse to have a street or even a park named after him. According to Schaefer, “Efforts to recognize significant figures in African American history have often been controversial. There are only 650 cities in 41 states that have renamed streets in honor of the late and great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” Oh my dear friend when will we all love and live as one as Dr. King wanted? Another issue my people haven faced for some time is racial profiling and here lately it has been on the hot seat!
The economy governed the forced labor required in each region. The North, being a society with slaves, lacked the ability to maintain large-scale cash crops. While some masters used slaves on small and large farms, and some plantations, many northern slaves worked in variety of skilled jobs in addition to domestic, manual, and industrial work. There was division of labor as the women primarily did domestic work. Initially, slaves worked for a limited term, functioning as servants and apprentices that could be hired out.
On the other hand the picture on the right portrays a slave for hire in which were owned to work independently in the streets as carriers or vendors. They had much more control over their lives in comparison to a field slave, and even occasionally gained enough power to buy their own freedom. Although the two differ in skin color they are both shoeless slaves of African decent that fell victim to this inhumane system of servitude. Although those hired as slaves in this situation were clearly better then field slaves, they faced their own special psychological torment living in the world as an outcaste. These two pictures can be used today as perfect examples of the various different groups and ethnicities in which slavery effected during the 19th century.
Daily Life of a Plantation Slave The death, the torture, the knowledge that each grueling day could be there last. What would it be like to be owned by another person as anything else is owned? Slaves were owned by other people. To buy a slave was very costly just as something in a store might be. There are two types of slaves, field workers and house slaves or servants.
At the time, slaves cleared land, cultivated farms, built homes, built railroads and roads, picked cotton and tobacco which were one of America’s biggest exports. Slavery left a residue of discrimination and human trafficking that our country still writhes from in many communities to this day. Although Solomon Northup’s story is mind-blogging, he is not the only person to have suffered kidnapping and enslavement, his story is so intriguing because he freed himself, survived and wrote a book about his experiences as a slave. Some people may feel that slaves born into slavery would be better off than someone who was sold into slavery because as the saying goes, “You can’t miss what you never had”-Hunter S.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest shows the different types of racism present during the Civil War. During the Civil War, Africans Americans were treated as slaves, thus people were racist against them. Although slavery was phased out of existence in the North, it was expanding on the South. The majority of the slaves worked on large cotton plantations, but many other slaves worked to produce tobacco, hemp, corn, and livestock. In other words, Africans Americans were obligated to work on the plantations for many hours.