Nancy Lincoln

Joel Chandler Harris was the world's most famous author during the Antebellum Era, or more widely known as the slave era, yet not many people from today’s era know who he is. Joel Harris wrote, “The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story” and “How Mr.Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox” found in the book Uncle Remus. These stories are from slave culture that has been passed on from generation to generation. The Fables describes a scenario in which a fox tricks a rabbit into getting trapped then the Rabbit…

On May 19 2017, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, gave a speech at the Gallier Hall at the same time the final four Confederate monuments were being removed. Katherine Sayre wrote an article, ”Read Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s speech on removing New Orleans’ Confederate monuments” in The Times-Picayune, that included the mayor’s full speech. In his speech Landrieu’s main focuses were to rebrand the history of the city of New Orleans, taking a stand to lead the nation, and no longer being silent about…

Conquest, slavery, and the dawn of the Industrial Revolution are inexplicably linked in modern history. Conquering began as a means of expanding land for cotton production. While cotton grew very well in Asia, Africa, it did not do well in the soil and climate of the British Isles. To many, manufacturing seemed like a poor alternative when placed in comparison with the lucrative cash crop. As a result, attention shifted to the West Indies where there was an exploding demand for cotton. British…

“The soul within me no man can degrade”-Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass was a former slave and an important leader of the abolitionist movement, galvanizing anti-slavery reformers with his powerful quotes and sharing his successful slavery escape story. He also attended the Seneca Falls Convention and gave speeches in favor of women’s rights, and helped demonstrate the connection between the abolitionist movement and early feminist movements. The abolitionist movement contributed to the…

have sown the wind, only to reap the whirlwind.” In “Our National Fast,” furthermore, Douglass’s theology of judgment reaches a peak intensity. Here he draws directly from the prophets to chastise the Union’s political establishment, especially the Lincoln administration, for its lack of abolitionist initiative. Quoting Isaiah, Douglass writes, “I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.” In the same article, “Nemesis,”…

Southern Whites had resorted to intimidation and violence to keep blacks from voting and restore white supremacy in the region. By the 1870s, support was racially relating in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities. The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal that settled the intensity of 1876 during the U.S presidential election. Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Samuel J. Tilden which caused the Failure of Reconstruction which…

our history. Is by killing Abraham Lincoln in april 14, 1865 right after 10:00. Booth had killed and shot president abraham lincoln, then he hopped off of the stage. And then he yelled sic semper tyrannis. The south has been avenged hurray. Later on that night John wilkes booth had broke his leg. But somehow he made it to the get away horse.…

out in April 1861, when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, shortly after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated. Evidence that proves my case is, “The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, will little note, nor longer remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” This proves my point above because, President Lincoln addresses that these…

I am William Lloyd Garrison, an abolitionist, who fought against the cruelty of slavery which I felt was morally wrong. Because of my belief that was instilled in me at a very early age, I did not agree with the violence that was imposed upon the African American during slavery. In response to J. Williford article on William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionists, who set fire to a replicate of the United States Constitution on Independence Day July 4, 1854 (WILLIFORD, 2013). Williford affirms that…

Strength and Decency Theodore Roosevelt gave this speech August 16, 1903. He gave it during the quarterly meeting of the Society of the Holy Name of Brooklyn and Long Island. Mainly what he is trying to say in this article is that young boys are the future of the society and they need to shape up, they are what America is going to be and they need to show who they actually are— by having decency and strength. This speech was given August 6, 1903 in Oyster Bay, New York. This document was…