Slavery Should Be Abolished Dbq Research Paper

-The process of emancipation was an enduring process for the United States along with the rest of the world when we transformed in the socio-economic sphere; at the same time, the country was reorganizing politically to change from a slave to post-slave society. Freedom in this time was defined as having the ability to own property. Emancipation was a post-abolition collaborative effort by many former slaves, abolition supporters, and politicians alike to re-shape America into a place where former slaves would have freedom, and be able to live with a sense of comfortability. This was the ideology, an excellent way of thinking on behalf of the former slaves, for they would come to inherit the liberties they had never previously experienced. In the late 19th century, the newfound freedoms that African Americans came to have were simple pleasures such as mobility. For the first time former …show more content…
Another freedom former slaves were granted is that they could finally have a legal marriage which would be recognized by the state. With abolition in full effect, the south rebelled against African American freedom as they have always done by regressing into another form of slavery known as the black codes. The black codes were implemented to ensure blacks would still work, if not by choice, then with the black codes, by force.
Under the 13th amendment of 1865, no longer could white men own another human, but with the black codes the southern whites found a way to make certain black men were still not allowed to vote, assemble freely, bear arms, nor hold office. It was these extreme sets of restraints that proved to republicans in congress that the plan of reconstruction provided by Johnson