to give their audiences depictions of African American life over the course of history. Rather it be in the form of painting like in Douglas’s Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction or in the form of sculpture as in Fuller’s Emancipation, a vital point has been made aware, African Americans have prevailed in the face of tribulations and will only continue to rise. Ultimately, there is a noticeable conscience effort to demonstrate the gruesome life and times of the African…
Pg. 1, Par. 4). Although he was president, he accomplished so much more throughout his life as well. We all know that Abe Lincoln was the 16th president, but is that it? One of his accomplishments was that he passed the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation helped free the slaves in America. He also made the decision to fight to prevent the nation from breaking apart. Most of the southern states had already seceded from the U.S., but Lincoln wasn’t fond of that idea.…
African Americans have had an impact on the United States that is essentially impossible to ignore. Thus, the history of African Americans should be considered American history; and taught with the same emphasis as traditional American history 1. Although Black history should be taught with equivalent emphasis to traditional American history: it hasn’t 10. For the most part, blacks have been forced to unearth and go on to teach their history on their own. Due to this, Black history is taught in…
Pastor, Martin Luther King Jr, in his speech, “I Have a Dream”, indicating racism. King’s purpose is to inform his audience that everyone should be treated equally and segregation needs to be corrected. He adopts an objective tone in order to capture any Americans willing to listen about the racial injustice in the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. uses various rhetorical devices and strategies such as imagery, contrast, and allusions to contribute to the overall effectiveness of his…
bring back the cotton industry back to life which they had lost. During the pre and post-civil war the union was going through many difficulties. The rights of the 13th, 14th, 15th, amendments made a path for a new democracy as well as The Emancipation Proclamation. A lot of nationalism was being…
appeals to both emotions, and logical thinking. Dr. King uses logos in the following quote “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the emancipation proclamation.” “Five score years ago, a great american, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the emancipation proclamation.” (King pg 261) He appeals to the audience when he talks about the symbolic shadow they…
The Battle of Antietam, started on September 17, 1862, with two main Generals/Commanders. The Union General/Commander was George B. McClellan and the Confederate States General/Commander was Robert E. Lee. General George B. McClellan was the commander for the Army of the Potomac, while General Robert E. Lee was commander for the Army of Northern Virginia. The Battle of Antietam which was also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg had around 12,410 of some 69,000 troops on the Union side, and 13,724…
expansion was the main reason that slavery thrived, and due to the increasing need for income, the South tried to spread slavery to the North. Since it became obvious that the North was not going to give in, when Abraham Lincoln released the Emancipation Proclamation it sent the South into an uproar of…
nation because he felt it was his duty unite the nation as laid out in the Constitution. With the need to end the war, further influences such as that of Douglass foster Lincoln’s revised opinion on slavery because he is pressured to pass the Emancipation Proclamation which enables him to visualize the union of nation without slavery. Although morally and politically deprecating slavery, Lincoln is in favor of the Constitution which he feels dictates the continuity of the Union. Dating back to…
Ulysses S. Grant: Grant was both a general and a commander of the Union forces in the later years of the Civil War. He is known for being a great general who guided the Union troops to their triumph over the Confederate armies. He was victorious when he captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee and when he crushed a large Confederate army in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Grant’s contribution to ending the Civil War, however, was when he led his forces to lay siege to Lee’s Northern Virginia…