Essay On Abolishing Slavery

Historians have had disputes over this for years, what the true definition of the revolution is. Was it truly revolutionary? The Revolutionary war is conservative, and was nothing more than a series of ongoing battles from 1775 to 1783. The citizens of America held onto their old ways for the following decades. A speech made in 1819 by a young African-American who graduated as the valedictorian of his New-York free school states, “Where are my prospects? … Shall I be a mechanic? No one will employ me; white boys won’t work with me. Shall I be a merchant? No one will have me in his office; white clerks won’t associate with me”. This speech shows that by 1819, New York as a state had not established a sense of social or political equality. This is the same matter then …show more content…
This map shows that by the early to late 1800’s, a majority of the states have not gone through with the abolishment of slavery. Particularly the south, because abolishing slavery means a great deal to their economy due to agricultural reasons. These two documents titled ‘“Utmost Good Faith” Clause from the Northwest Ordinance, 1787’, and a ‘Letter from three Seneca Indian Leaders - Big Tree, Cornplanter, and Half-Town - to President of the United States, George Washington, 1790’. The utmost good faith clause states ,”The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians… and, in their property, rights, and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress”. By 1790, the letter from the three Seneca Indian leaders states, “You told us you could crush us to nothing; and you demanded from us a great country… (W)e ask you to consider calmly - Were the terms dictated to us by your commissioners reasonable and just..? … All the land we have been speaking of belonged to the Six Nations. No part of it ever belonged to the king of England, and he could not give it to