Why Is Slavery Happened To The Constitution Of The United States?
Neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
This is the transcript of the thirteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States of America. This amendment made it illegal to buy, sell or possess slaves in the United States of America or anywhere under the rule of said government. It was ratified on December 6th of 1865.
Long before this momentous occasion, large amounts of other events needed to occur.
Firstly, there needed to be a reason for this amendment to be made. That reason, of course, was that slavery was horrific.
Some examples of such atrocities done to these …show more content…
Then, when she was just a child, her brother, Moses, was threatened by her mother’s owner to be taken away. However, Tubman’s mother hid Moses, and when the men came with their clubs and whips to take him, she threatened to crush the skull of the first man who came through the door of her house. This gave Harriet Tubman the inspiration to carry out her life’s work of freeing as many slaves as possible from the slavery they faced everyday. She escaped slavery when she was 29 and formed an extensive system to free slaves from the South and bring them to the North known as the Underground Railroad. She guided around 19 trips to freedom and freed around 300 slaves, becoming one of the most influential people in the fight for …show more content…
He said, “The early punishments of slaves...are cart whipping, beating with a stick, sometimes to the breaking of bones, the chain, an iron crook around the neck, a ring about the ankle, and confinement in the dungeon.” He then went on to state, “There have been instances of slitting of ears, breaking of limbs, so as to make amputation necessary, beating out of eyes, and castration.”
After what seemed like an eternity. Some changes began to happen to start to end this awful, awful tradition.
In 1861, there began a mighty war. This war was Civil War. It was the war between the Union, or the North side and Confederacy, or the South side of The United States. The main conflict of this struggle was whether or not slavery should be legal. At the time of this war, over four million people were held as slaves.
Eventually, this war was won by the Union, or the north side of the United States.
Then, on January first of 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Although this was a tremendous beginning, there were many issues keeping this document
This is the transcript of the thirteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States of America. This amendment made it illegal to buy, sell or possess slaves in the United States of America or anywhere under the rule of said government. It was ratified on December 6th of 1865.
Long before this momentous occasion, large amounts of other events needed to occur.
Firstly, there needed to be a reason for this amendment to be made. That reason, of course, was that slavery was horrific.
Some examples of such atrocities done to these …show more content…
Then, when she was just a child, her brother, Moses, was threatened by her mother’s owner to be taken away. However, Tubman’s mother hid Moses, and when the men came with their clubs and whips to take him, she threatened to crush the skull of the first man who came through the door of her house. This gave Harriet Tubman the inspiration to carry out her life’s work of freeing as many slaves as possible from the slavery they faced everyday. She escaped slavery when she was 29 and formed an extensive system to free slaves from the South and bring them to the North known as the Underground Railroad. She guided around 19 trips to freedom and freed around 300 slaves, becoming one of the most influential people in the fight for …show more content…
He said, “The early punishments of slaves...are cart whipping, beating with a stick, sometimes to the breaking of bones, the chain, an iron crook around the neck, a ring about the ankle, and confinement in the dungeon.” He then went on to state, “There have been instances of slitting of ears, breaking of limbs, so as to make amputation necessary, beating out of eyes, and castration.”
After what seemed like an eternity. Some changes began to happen to start to end this awful, awful tradition.
In 1861, there began a mighty war. This war was Civil War. It was the war between the Union, or the North side and Confederacy, or the South side of The United States. The main conflict of this struggle was whether or not slavery should be legal. At the time of this war, over four million people were held as slaves.
Eventually, this war was won by the Union, or the north side of the United States.
Then, on January first of 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Although this was a tremendous beginning, there were many issues keeping this document