Gettysburg Address Analysis

Imagine a time where people weren’t all treated the same, and there was a world full of cruelty and violence. The civil war was a devastating time during the mid 1800’s. Things such as slavery, racism, and segregation took over. People had sacrificed their lives to give freedom to our country. People had a change in ideas about freedom because of Abraham Lincoln’s speech, and the conflict about women’s and African American rights.

During the time of the civil war Abraham Lincoln, our sixteenth president, gave his speech, Gettysburg Address. “Now we are engaged in a civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure,” (Gettysburg Address, paragraph 2) In the quote he lets his people know that
Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! man had nothing to do with Him.” (Ain’t I a Woman?, paragraph 4) She talks about how she’s heard men talk about how women can’t have as much rights as men. She then mentions that Christ did come from a woman and God himself, so women should have rights, and should be respected equally like everyone else because females can work as hard as males. Men believe that women need to be helped with everything such as into carriages, over mud puddles, give the best place and etc. Work hard as much and eat as much as a man, and Ain’t I a Woman? (Aint I a Woman, paragraph, 2). Women can work as hard as men, they never really even had help even though men thought that women needed it, they were just making an excuse for women to have unequal rights. Men believed that women need help with everything, and they are weaker to do what they need. All in all, another reason why people change their idea about freedom, is Truth’s speech about women’s
“I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?” (Ain’t I a Woman, paragraph 2).The children she had given birth herself were taken away to slavery because she was a slave. Winning the civil war, meant that people had freedom now, and they wouldn’t be owned by someone. “A new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal… Under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,” (Gettysburg Address, paragraph 1&4) Abraham Lincoln, who was our president, saw how the slaves were treated, and he thought it was very unfair and cruel. He now is telling the people that our country is essentially being reborn, into a land of peace, and freedom. Thus being said, slavery affected many people during the civil