Most people today in our generation don’t fully understand that life back in the day wasn’t all sun shine and rainbows. We had people who fought every single day just so that they could get a change at freedom and be able to have that feeling inside of them were they can finally say I’m FREE and not have to worry about the consequence’s that they would receive on a daily basis. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued and regained on January 1, 1863, by Abraham Lincoln. The whole point of the Emancipation was that the states that were in rebellion would have been freed by the Emancipation and those that were not would have been excluded. The Emancipation was only limited to states that seceded from the union. Abraham Lincoln whole intention
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The abolitionists were the ones who spend most of their time convincing other people that African American man and women were no different than any other white men and women. Abolitionists were the ones who argued and said that slavery was against the ideas of liberty and equality. Slavery not only was horrible in many aspects but it also brought out the worst of human kind. When people realize how much power they have over a certain person they act in a completely different way. Slave owners at once might have been these kind innocent people who just went about their lives like everyone else, but the whole way of slavery changed them and made them into these monsters that they would have never imagined themselves turning into. The North had all these African American people who come looking for a job and other opportunities that they never had. They all wanted to start a new chapter in a book and hope that they would never go back to the way they have lived most of their lives.
African American men were given a chance to fight in the Civil War and many were happy to fight because they believed that there were fighting for their freedom. African American soldiers faced many challenges throughout the war such as if they were to get caught by the confederacy state they would have been tortured poorly and even killed. Many who fought believed that they were fighting for freedom from
The abolitionists were the ones who spend most of their time convincing other people that African American man and women were no different than any other white men and women. Abolitionists were the ones who argued and said that slavery was against the ideas of liberty and equality. Slavery not only was horrible in many aspects but it also brought out the worst of human kind. When people realize how much power they have over a certain person they act in a completely different way. Slave owners at once might have been these kind innocent people who just went about their lives like everyone else, but the whole way of slavery changed them and made them into these monsters that they would have never imagined themselves turning into. The North had all these African American people who come looking for a job and other opportunities that they never had. They all wanted to start a new chapter in a book and hope that they would never go back to the way they have lived most of their lives.
African American men were given a chance to fight in the Civil War and many were happy to fight because they believed that there were fighting for their freedom. African American soldiers faced many challenges throughout the war such as if they were to get caught by the confederacy state they would have been tortured poorly and even killed. Many who fought believed that they were fighting for freedom from