How Did The Overall Treatment Of African America During The Civil War?

In 1619, the first slave transporting ships arrived on the coastal port town of Virgina known as Jamestown. Slaves were transported from African countries as working labor to help work on plantations maintaining crops such as tobacco. As time passed, the need for masses of slaves began to die down. Slavery seemed to be gradually be slowing down until the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney. By creating the cotton gin, Whitney provided a tool for plantation owners to buy that would allow them to increase the production of cotton by a tremendous percentage. The plantation owners realized the potential to make absurd amounts of money, and immediately bought cotton gins. With the cotton gin you would need to have a worker, which created
This resulted in the creation of three amendments aimed towards the improvement of the overall treatment of African Americans. Amendment 13 officially abolished slavery as a whole; Amendment 14 made African Americans full citizens, and Amendment 15 promised suffrage to male African Americans. Not long after these amendments had been passed, there were reactions by whites that did not want the blacks to have power. Disenfranchisement, which established rules such as the grandfather clause and poll tax, aimed to and succeeded in limiting the amount of participation African Americans had in
In 1955, one of the most popular non-violent small-scale protests occurred. Rosa Parks, labeled the “First Lady of Civil Rights” boarded a public transportation bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She sat down in the area designated for blacks. – The method of segregation on the buses at that time was that there was a certain line that demarcated where the white section ended and where the black section began. The whites sat at the front of the bus, filling the seats from front to back, up until the designated row where the black section began. As for the blacks, they began sitting at the back of the bus and worked their way towards the front as the seats filled up, never passing the row that split the sections. If the bus was full and a white passenger boarded, the blacks were asked to clear the row closest to the white section to allow their superior citizens seating. They weren’t segregated from the bus, for they were allowed to stay on, as long as they stood. – The bus was full, and a white passenger boarded the bus. Rosa Parks was seated in the row closest to the white section, so, in accordance with the segregation that existed on the transportation bus, her row was asked to stand up and make space for the white passenger. Parks, in a pacifistic manner, refused and told the bus driver that she would not stand up. Infuriated by this act of