Eric Foner

there were times that weren’t so great. One of the major negatives was slavery, also not many women had the right to their own person they were practically slaves to the men in my opinion. In the book, “An American History Give Me Liberty” by Eric Foner sites in chapter 3 called Creating Anglo-America 1660-1750 some of the important marks of that specific time period. Like in 1676 the Bacon’s Rebellion, which became known as the most intense conflicts of that time (83). There are many other…

In Eric Foner’s Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, Foner discusses the rise, fall, and exploits of the abolitionist movement in the United States. Foner, a famous and renowned historian, is currently the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. Foner wrote this book to explore and dissect newly found information that reveals the hidden history of the abolitionist movement in America Early on, the abolitionist movement in New York City was not…

South could not come to equal grounds, which further led me to believe that, the main reason to the cause of the Civil War was about slavery. Also the nine states that were pulling, from the union had more than divided themselves the United States. (Eric…

the other side you have white southern women being seen as less. Eric Foner writes about Planters controlling and holding the majority of the slaves in the Deep South in our textbook, “Give Me Liberty!” Since ownership of slaves provided an avenue towards wealth, status, and influence, white southern women in the antebellum south married to planters were often times elevated in their status over other women. Planter’s wives, Eric Foner notes, were able to stay within their proper elements which…

land. But the invader comes along, at first intrigued by the pale faces we let them board to see their intentions. But later on we realize that they have no intention to go back, they were here to stay. As it states in chapter 2, Give me liberty by Eric Foner: “land in North America, of course, was already occupied. And the arrival of English settlers presented the native inhabitants of eastern North America with the greatest crisis in their history. Unlike the Spanish, English colonists wanted…

dozens of years prior, in 1763 and the years that followed, as well as back to the early history of colonial North America. Two authors and historians, Colin Calloway, who wrote The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America, and Eric Foner, who authored Give Me Liberty! an American History, offer two comprehensive viewpoints into the origins of the American Revolution and a historical analysis of how the events and conflicts which took place during the time periods…

literacy rates that went up allowed blacks to be able to get educated, and education would be the basis of freedom for the new freedman. Not only did blacks become free, but they became their own people during Reconstruction. In Give Me Liberty, Eric Foner understood the viewpoint of the African-Americans during the Reconstruction time-period. He said, “African-American staked their claim to equal citizenship. Blacks declared an Alabama meeting, deserved, ‘exactly the same rights, privileges…

grounds for infectious diseases. The working conditions were even worse. “Although most immigrants earned more than was possible in the impoverished regions from which they came, they endured low wages, long hours, and dangerous working conditions” (Eric Foner published 2017- 5th edition). Children were used as labor in factories and worked long hours. The immigrants often suffered accidents in these factories, many losing limbs with no labor laws to protect them. Despite all of this most…

what should become of these statues; suggesting that the statues be removed from pedestals and placed in museums. While in the article "Confederate Statues and "our" History by Eric Foner, he discusses a statement made by President Trump discussing how the removal of these statues will destroy "our" history and heritage. Foner questions exactly whose history is being destroyed and who is included in "our", while elaborating on why these statues should be removed. A reminder of white supremacy,…

The book titled Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner examines in depth, as the name suggests, the Underground Railroad, but it also discusses the numerous abolitionist associations and the people, black and white, who conducted them. These abolitionist organizations and the Underground Railroad often went hand in hand with the abolitionist organizations assisting runaways and fugitives in their search for a new, better life either in the North or…