Origins of the American Civil War

Throughout American history the most horrific action was argued against and sought as a positive activity. Before the Civil War, there were many debates on the topic of slavery. As Northern abolitionist attacked slavery and an unjust event, white Southerners had to defend the attacks made on slavery from the North. The North’s economy was set up through industrial work, employed by many immigrant workers who were paid less than the average worker. While the South’s economy was based through…

All God’s Chillen Had Wings This folktale by Caesar Grant was inspired by “The People Could Fly.” This tale tells a story about black flight and how Africans regained their power and freedom with the help of an older African man. No matter how confined one was, there was always a desire for freedom. The author, Grant, begins by clarifying that before slavery, everyone, including Africans were once free and could fly. He did this to let the readers know that in the beginning there were no…

In the award winning novel Chains, the author, Laurie Halse Anderson, presents an historical Revolutionary War novel where a young slave girl must escape to freedom to save her sister, Ruth. This takes her on a perilous journey through eighteenth century America towards freedom, where the only way out is perseverance and courage. Through scenes in the book, Anderson implies that to improve your situation and work towards a cause risks must be taken. This idea is shown in the scenes when she…

The title of my book is Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin's story centers around the events in the lives of various slaves and their owners. The protagonist, a slave named Tom, is sold off to a slave trader and then bought into a wealthy family. Among the female members of the family are Marie and Ophelia St. Clare. Marie St. Clare is one of the story's flat characters, possessing attributes of laziness, selfishness, and self-mindedness. She is slow to put…

Upon reading inserts from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, one can conclude that Stowe was in disagreement with slavery. Stowe included noteworthy details that allowed for readers to identify that Stowe herself viewed slavery as a renowned evil. Though Stowe’s priority in creating this piece of literature was to create conversation in the area of slavery abolishment, Stowe herself did include multiple racial stereotypes to convey her purpose. First and foremost, I will begin with Eliza…

while also using his language to humanize all slaves. He makes arguments about destruction of slave family life, physical violence, and the withholding of education. Also, he uses allusion, symbolism, and diction to humanize himself and all African Americans. One of the most emphasized dehumanizing aspects of slavery described by the author is the…

first couple-paragraphs of Emerson’s “American Scholar” gives advice to the male American scholars. Emerson wrote the “American Scholar” a couple decades after America got its independence. For America, it was time for change, so Emerson delivered a speech that would help motivate the “American Scholars” to push for that change. One way Emerson delivers his message is the way he appeals to his audience. When Emerson starts off his speech he lets the “American Scholars” know that it's going to be…

Known as the Reconstruction Era, the United States endured a financial revolution noticeable by; the growth of the industrial wealth, development of big business, large scale agronomy, and the upsurge of national labor unions and industrial struggle. With all this industrial change taking place around the country, the South was still in turmoil. The confusion in the South, arose from the abolition of slavery in 1865. Many former slaves faced an uncertainty in regards to their future in this…

¬¬Emancipation and Foreign Policy With the war going bad for the North and the presidency of Lincoln unsure, sought to weaken the South by targeting the slaves. Slavery had been and would be an evil within the United States. Lincoln’s position was that slavery was morally wrong, and that he did not approve of it. He was proponent of one’s hard work, which slavery contradicted that idea (AbrahamLincolnClassroom). Although this fact was more shadowed by how worried he was for the effect slavery…

things that went right throughout the Reconstruction process. For instance, the abolishment of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment is a HUGE victory coming out of the Civil War (Schultz, pg.291). This would change the way African American’s live their lives in the United States forever. Another big victory was the passing of the Civil Rights Act, which provided individuals with the protection of the law (Schultz, pg.295). Allowing them to hold property, enforce contracts and to sue or be sued…