American abolitionists

said that all men were created equal but somehow left out African Americans. The seeds of the sectional conflict were laid with the creation of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787. These soon to be five states would be called free states making the rest of the nation slave states (“Northwest Ordinance 1787” 1). This act drew lines in the sand that separated that part of the country from the south morally…

independence as a new confederation of states under its own constitution. Dred Scott was a slave who sought citizenship through the American Legal System, and whose case eventually ended up in the Supreme Court. Scott was denied his request, stating that no person with African blood could become a U.S. citizen. Besides just denying citizenship for African Americans, it also overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had restricted slavery in certain U.S. territories. By the 1830’s, those…

Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation was an important act ,the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by president Abraham Licoln , allowing the freedom of all in the rebelling territories of the confederacy and allowing Blacks enlistment in the Union Army. Since the beginning of the Civil War, free Black people in general, were ready to fight on behalf of the Union, yet they were prevented from doing so. Popular racial stereotypes and discrimination against Blacks in the…

the Africans murdered Americans on the ship. So the slave traders say that they should be charged for murder. But the Africans claim they were kidnapped. Also the Africans were from Spain and Spain has a treaty with the US that any Spanish property found in American waters is belongs to Spain and since the slaves are considered property they belong to Spain. But the slave owners say they are people because they should be convinced of murder. But then Baldwin an abolitionist who is fighting…

historical symbol of the American Civil War. Her actions and writings influenced the zeitgeist of the era, and ignited a fire underneath the cooking pot of the civil rights movement. On June 14th, 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was born into a family that taught her love, sincerity, and other purported christian values. Stowe’s Christian background and northern residence…

The two abolitionists I wrote about is William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown William Lloyd Garrison was born in 1805 at Newburyport, Massachusetts. When William father abandoned the family in 1808 they have a hard time. William has to look for foods for his family; he has to ask other family for some food. William has to work he sold homemade candy and delivering some wood. William started working in 1818 at a newspaper job for Newburyport Herald where he develops skills set as a writer and…

David Walker and Nat Turner were abolitionists. They were Southerners and very religious. David Walker and Nat Turner believed in violence and handling things by any means necessary. The Walker appeal was printed in 1829 in Boston. In this publication Walker, used angry words towards slavery and white racism. The Walker appeal molded slavery in many ways. It had an influence on Garrison abolition. It gave hope and inspired black abolitionism, it also made it to the South and put fear in the…

in the Americas. He believed that Women’s lives were similar to African American rights in terms of equality. He lived a life worth remembering because he changed generations during and after his time. He gave people a reason to listen, which many African Americans at the time were unable to do. Douglass got their attention because of his story of how he was a slave and how he got to where he was. He explains this in”An American Slave”(authors and artists for young adults, 1)in 1845. An…

When examining the African American Civil Rights Movement from a historical perspective, historians and scholars have focused predominantly on the lives and influences of a few, celebrated characters. For example, early abolitionist advocates, such as Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass, and twentieth-century civil rights leaders Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr. have received significant attention and justifiably achieved revered status among…

Throughout the Civil War both African American men as well as women contributed towards the Union’s victory against the confederacy through the roles of fighting, spying, and nursing. Although the participation of African Americans within the war was controversial at first, the help acquired from fighting wars, spying, and even nursing was handy for the North and pushed the nation a step closer towards victory and success. The involvement of African American’s participation within the war was at…