We are taught to blame slavery on the Southern states but we learned that the Northern states were just as responsible due to their lack of action, fear of the results due to abolishment, and most importantly their double standard on the stance of slavery. Professor Nash gives us and insightful view from the eyes of free blacks and their contribution in the fight for freedom and equality of African Americans. This book has given me an insight of our history of slavery that I was unaware of, people involved and events that took place. The struggle for equality that we have in our country now is evident that it stem from our past. Using these events we can understand ourselves and continue to build a stable and free America which our forefathers based their fight for liberty and freedom from England and strengthen the words written within our Constitution that establish freedom and equality for “ALL
In some cases the personal perspective may also detract from the historical value and may be a slight deterrent in the way one reads the book. Some novels are very detailed and gruesome and only focus on the beatings and torturous parts of slavery. Collison’s novel did not mention the abusive part as much as other novels did which may bias the reader in one way or another. The book about Shadrach focused on his life as a whole; not just the “stripes” he got that day. Collison’s novel focuses on how Minkins escaped from slavery and how he was going to better his life and learn from the experiences that he had encountered.
American Slavery Many authors and historians have analyzed slavery from only a negative perspective, showing only the extreme cases of poor treatment. Due to the recent discovery of new primary sources about slavery, scholars have been able to reexamine the facts and provide a more accurate depiction of enslaved life. In Peter Kolchin’s book American Slavery, the author uses these new facts to portray slavery in a new light. The primary goal of this novel is to provide the facts about slavery. Other goals that the Kolchin hopes to achieve are the analyzing of the relationship between the slave masters and slaves and to show how slavery has adapted over time.
Hearing about slaves is terrifying and is something. John W. Blassingame seems to be a great author but by reading only one book about him does not give me a full description about him. I really do not read a lot, and I do not have a favorite author. But one thing I know is that it would not be someone who writes about slaves, even though not all authors are against slavery. I do not like to get reminded of how dark and terrible slaves spent their pure life suffering by their cruel punishments like whipping or getting killed to stop the problem right away.
The African Americans, united in their quest for creating ‘a perfect union’ which at its very earliest ended when the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified. Barker (2013), in his book, recollects the autobiographical notes and personal anecdote of various events from the black and white slaves who played an integral part in the American war against slavery. A socio political approach is used by Barker to engage his readers in how the African Americans continued their battle in middle 1800s. There are eight cases of the fleeing bondsmen included in the books who were pursued by their owners and in some cases, by the federal allies who claimed ownership of these slaved under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. In the chapters that follow, along with the well reclaimed fugitive slaves, Barker also introduced their abolitionist allies including Theodore Parker, Lewis Hayden, Frederick Douglas, Wendell Phillips and Samuel Joseph May who are proclaimed as the Revolutionary war heroes.
DuBois analyzes the first four decades following the end of slavery. During the first decade, he writes, the Black community strove to identify what exactly freedom meant, what forms it was to take, and how it would change at a time when racism continued and organizations like the KKK existed. DuBois felt that the idea of “book-learning” was more important than voting. However, it is a complicated issue because the black man who pursues book-learning faces the veil that has been
When the slave owner found about this he strongly disapproved, because he thought that if the slaves learn to then the slaves would want to escape. Still, Douglass taught himself how to read in secret and eventually taught other slave how to read the Bible. Here, he understood where and why inequality within the US was thriving. Free labor brought profits for southern plantation owners and the ideology that “non-whites” were considered not to be equal. “Frederick Douglass was the most important African American leader and intellectual of the nineteenth century.
Print. Pg 21 4 Anderson, James D. The Education of Blacks in the South: 1860-1935. Chapel Hill U.a. : Univ. of North Carolina Pr., 1988.
Book Critique In my critique of Stephen V. Ash's A Year in the South: 1865 I will discuss his theme and his use of evidence to support his thesis. I will also identify Ash's purpose in writing this book. Additionally I will discuss his writing style. Ash's ultimate goal in writing this book is to educate the reader on the rapid and drastic changes to living in America immediately after the Civil War, specifically in the Confederate South. He does this by providing the stories of four individuals who lived in different places in the South under very different circumstances the year the Civil War ended.
And his personal life was also very contradictory. He spoke and acted for the liberty of man, but at the time he thought that liberty was in fact for a small minority of the people, blacks were not included, in fact, and he owned slaves. But his Declaration of Independence, and his other ideas and writings about the rights of states and individuals freedom helped to shape the world as we know it today. Thomas Jefferson’s contradictions are part of our society and are still affecting us today. Additionally, it’s important to study about Jefferson, because this can help us to resolve our problems in society and learn from the past.