Slavery Called Been In Storm So Long Summary

Back in 1979 the author Leon F. Litwack published a book about slavery called Been in Storm So Long. This book included a poem in one of the chapters by the name Slaves No More, throughout this book he stated that there was an existent difference between the North and the South slavery trades and he also argued that the civil war brought slavery to an end. Africans were not subject to English common law, they were workers that had absolutely no rights and they were abused from the moment they were purchased to the last of their days as worker slaves. Slavery in the US ended with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 before the Civil War ended in 1865.
Because it was so profitable, millions of people were sold and separated from their families, they were treated like beasts and America divided. The industrial revolution was blooming all over the world and America was trying to catch up, …show more content…
Slavery certainly improved economy in America and helped with trades of goods to different countries but it also had a political and moral impact in society. When the American Civil War ended everyone questioned where and how they could reconstruct the country, one of the most relevant issues back then was the right to vote and have a voice within politics, congress conceded a series of acts to address all the questions of human rights as well as how they wanted the South to be governed; These included the Freedmen’s Bureau and several Reconstruction Acts that also limited many Confederate and Military officers. The only good thing about slavery was the booming in economics it caused to England and America, thanks to all the money these people were producing, England had buildings and companies in big cities that they would not have had without the help of this terrible part in