Summary Of South African Americans Ask For Help

In the article, Southern Blacks Ask For Help, 1865 by The Colored People of Virginia, expresses how African Americans that lived in the south never recieved rights of citizenship after the civil war ended slavery in the United States. For many decades, African Americans demanded for freedom but were unable to have freedom of speech due to certain laws in the south. This article focuses on the African American wanting their freedom and equal rights after the civil war. In the article it states, “When the contest waxed long, and the result hung doubtfully, you appealed for us for help and how well we answered is written in the rosters of two hundred thousand colored troops now enrolled in your service.” African Americans started realizing that
they would give the white troops so much help but wouldn’t get the same respect in return. The African Americans in the south did come up with a plan that could possibly help them restrain in the war. In this quote it exerts, “In one word, the only salvation for us besides the power of the government is in the possession of the ballet. Give us this and we will protect ourselves…”. During the civil war there was the “Reconstruction” period, following that period, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This was an executive order to end all slavery in the confederate states. All in all, even though slavery was terminated, African Americans were still didn’t receive the type of freedom that they expected from the whites. Putting an end to slavery seemed to aggravate the whites in the south even more because they were not able to handle the African Americans freedom. Still to this day, there is a lot racist acts going on throughout the world, for example, Police shooting random black people for no reason and white supremacist having marches throughout states. The answer to this argument is that yes, African Americans still do not receive their freedom till this day.