What Is The Role Of Photography In The Civil War

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Part 1: The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin played a small yet big role in the Civil War. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the book right before the Civil War started in 1852.She was an abolitionist, and she wrote the book so that the North would understand how badly the South was treating their slaves. She knew all about slaves because her parents owned slaves. The North thought the book was interesting and got many Northerners thinking about slavery and how devastating it really was. The South took it as an attack on the South as a whole. Abraham Lincoln claims that Harriet was the little girl who started this big war. Part 2: There were many important inventions during the Civil War, but one of the most important was the creation of photography. The role played by photography in the American Civil War (and every war since) was to provide the most accurate historical record possible of the people, the personalities, the places/things and mostly the horror of the war. No prior war had been recorded in such detail from start to finish like the Civil War. Photographs revealed warfare and its historical atmosphere with an intensity never before experienced by civilians. The Civil War was not the first war to be photographed, but it was the first to be photographed intensively. Photography in the United States was only 21 years…show more content…
It swung support to Lincoln in a way that hadn't happened yet. The Gettysburg Address was emphasizing the fact that all men of all race are created equal and should all be treated the same. It basically was saying that every individual has a chance to achieve their goals and the government wouldn’t delay this desire. The address actually helped end the Civil War by making the South be in control in the North -meaning that slavery was over and that African American’s had the same rights as the

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