The Civil War was a significant turning point in history. Prior to the Civil War, there had been issues regarding slavery that had begun to make its way into existence through abolitionist movements. Experiences depicted within the novel, Battle Lines: a Graphic History of the Civil War, represented the struggles that many had endured as slaves fought for not only their freedom but for others as well. Throughout the book, the authors, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman, incorporated narratives that justified the injustices of the institution of slavery as being the cause of the Civil War. The injustices of the institution of slavery had been the cause of the Civil War whereas states begun to secede into Confederate and Union states. These
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Slaves who resided in these slave states were motivated and destined to fight in order to receive their inalienable rights. However, as time progressed, instances revolving the rights of the slaves had been threatened. For example, “Look, we can’t help you. But listen to what I’m sayin’, you can git yerself sorted out at the negro camp”, [Fetter-Vorm & Kelman, 48] represented the segregation that had occurred on the battlefields, where the black slave had been forced to head towards a camp that had contained people that shared the same race as him. The institution of slavery had provoked many slaves to revolt and demand equality for themselves. Slaves started to get immeasurably exhausted with the treatment they received from the white folks, as displayed in the book, “Nine out of ten people’d say the engine’s the most important part of a …show more content…
Innocent lives were being separated from families and loss for the sake of a belief or for the notion of standing up for their country. Many of those who fought on the Confederate side, craved equality and justice. Equality and justice had been delayed due to laws, Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, that had been enacted in response to the declaration of Confederate states as slave holding states. In order to overcome these injustices, slaves fought on the battlefields and still miraculously continued being degraded, for example, an white onlooker stated, “...giving rifles to a pack of negroes… dressing ‘em up like soldiers… for one thing, it’s damn foolish” [Fetter-Vorm & Kelman, 120]. This onlooker had not only criticized the lives these blacks had, but had also felt misery for the numerous black lives that had been placed in a pile upon on the battlefield. Families not only had to bear with the loss of their family members but had to deal with the separation this war had caused. The slave, George Washington, can be used as a prime example for being separated from his partner and child. While, the slave, Washington, was being written up in the book handled by the soldiers, he had mumbled, “...say, is there a Evelyn in that book? Had a little girl with her?” [Fetter-Vorm & Kelman, 54], this represents
Slaves who resided in these slave states were motivated and destined to fight in order to receive their inalienable rights. However, as time progressed, instances revolving the rights of the slaves had been threatened. For example, “Look, we can’t help you. But listen to what I’m sayin’, you can git yerself sorted out at the negro camp”, [Fetter-Vorm & Kelman, 48] represented the segregation that had occurred on the battlefields, where the black slave had been forced to head towards a camp that had contained people that shared the same race as him. The institution of slavery had provoked many slaves to revolt and demand equality for themselves. Slaves started to get immeasurably exhausted with the treatment they received from the white folks, as displayed in the book, “Nine out of ten people’d say the engine’s the most important part of a …show more content…
Innocent lives were being separated from families and loss for the sake of a belief or for the notion of standing up for their country. Many of those who fought on the Confederate side, craved equality and justice. Equality and justice had been delayed due to laws, Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, that had been enacted in response to the declaration of Confederate states as slave holding states. In order to overcome these injustices, slaves fought on the battlefields and still miraculously continued being degraded, for example, an white onlooker stated, “...giving rifles to a pack of negroes… dressing ‘em up like soldiers… for one thing, it’s damn foolish” [Fetter-Vorm & Kelman, 120]. This onlooker had not only criticized the lives these blacks had, but had also felt misery for the numerous black lives that had been placed in a pile upon on the battlefield. Families not only had to bear with the loss of their family members but had to deal with the separation this war had caused. The slave, George Washington, can be used as a prime example for being separated from his partner and child. While, the slave, Washington, was being written up in the book handled by the soldiers, he had mumbled, “...say, is there a Evelyn in that book? Had a little girl with her?” [Fetter-Vorm & Kelman, 54], this represents