What does it mean when someone is called an “Exoduses”? Why did southern blacks participate in the “exodus”?
The first and most powerful exodus was in biblical days when Moses inspired by God led the Israelites out of Egypt out of the hands of Pharaoh who held them as slaves for over four hundred years. In retrospect, the same applies to the African American. The Jewish people had to deal with slavery, brutality, and denial of basic right was also the fate of African American. Thus, the name exoduster came about as African American believes that it was God it was the hand of God in the same way the Jewish people believe Moses that it was the God who was guiding him and followed him out of Egypt, the same applies to African American who was …show more content…
How did sharecropping reduce many blacks and poor whites to permanent servitude? War is a devastating event in anyone’s life, and to a country. After the civil war the economy of America suffers gravely, more so for the southern states as most of their economy was based on slavery. As it get closer to the end of the civil war plans were been made as to how to get the rebellious southern states back into the union and how to restore them. Such plans were very difficult and makes it more difficult for restoration. One have to take into consider that during a war every aspect is impacted, the condition of the economy, politic, and social condition. (Edsitement, 2015)
Southern states suffers deeply as they relied heavily on free labor from slaves to build their economy that was suddenly pulled from under their feet. They had to try to come up with some alternative to replace the free labor that would allow them to gain capital to keep them afloat. With the destruction in building, plantation, factories ruin and field no long been farmed. In addition to noticeable loss, the cost of human lives was devastating, the south not long lost a countless majority of African American soldiers but they also lost over 260,000 white adult male died. Their greatest lost was manpower. (Digital History,
The first and most powerful exodus was in biblical days when Moses inspired by God led the Israelites out of Egypt out of the hands of Pharaoh who held them as slaves for over four hundred years. In retrospect, the same applies to the African American. The Jewish people had to deal with slavery, brutality, and denial of basic right was also the fate of African American. Thus, the name exoduster came about as African American believes that it was God it was the hand of God in the same way the Jewish people believe Moses that it was the God who was guiding him and followed him out of Egypt, the same applies to African American who was …show more content…
How did sharecropping reduce many blacks and poor whites to permanent servitude? War is a devastating event in anyone’s life, and to a country. After the civil war the economy of America suffers gravely, more so for the southern states as most of their economy was based on slavery. As it get closer to the end of the civil war plans were been made as to how to get the rebellious southern states back into the union and how to restore them. Such plans were very difficult and makes it more difficult for restoration. One have to take into consider that during a war every aspect is impacted, the condition of the economy, politic, and social condition. (Edsitement, 2015)
Southern states suffers deeply as they relied heavily on free labor from slaves to build their economy that was suddenly pulled from under their feet. They had to try to come up with some alternative to replace the free labor that would allow them to gain capital to keep them afloat. With the destruction in building, plantation, factories ruin and field no long been farmed. In addition to noticeable loss, the cost of human lives was devastating, the south not long lost a countless majority of African American soldiers but they also lost over 260,000 white adult male died. Their greatest lost was manpower. (Digital History,