Reading the diary entries from people can help you learn about how they lived and what life was like during their time period. In my opinion‚ by reading the entries of slaves‚ we can discover what kind of work they did and how they were treated. This helps us understand what happened with an inside source. Each group of people had their own opinions and had different things written in their diaries. Because of this we gain knowledge from each side of the story. Rural slaves usually worked on farms
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Booker T. Washington VS. WEB DuBois In the days when segregation was not uncommon‚ there were two men that played a huge part in the fight for equality in the United States. Booker T. Washington and WEB DuBois were great leaders‚ who supporterted civil rights‚ yet also disagreed on various issues related to reconstruction‚ poverty‚ racism‚ and discrimination. Both Washington and DuBois worked on reforming education as well as eliminating discrimination towards Blacks‚ but their strategies of
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1) Black petitioners believed that owning land was essential to the enjoyment of freedom because during the time of slavery‚ land was equal to power. The more land one owned‚ generally the more powerful and wealthier. African American slaves spent countless hours outside working in the fields and maintaining the land for white slave owners. They “made these lands what they were.” They felt that they deserved to be able to own land; “This is our home...we are the only true and loyal people that were
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oaks O Captain! My Captain! 1.Do you think President Lincoln ended slavery at the right time? Yes‚ I do think that president Lincoln ended slavery at the right time because if it had continued I think it would’ve got a lot worse then how it was when before he had stopped it. 2. (A): What does the Freedman say Lincoln’s toughest decision as president? The toughest thing the Freedman said was stopping slavery and taking big voyages. He also said that being a president would be a big dedication
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Annie Besant describes the conditions of the London Match Workers as a kind of white Slavery‚ but does their condition really match those of the slaves brought to the Americas? The conditions of both reflect social debates of their times‚ where human beings were treated as property. I see both parallels and differences between the conditions of Londons working class and the African slaves brought to the AmericasBeginning with the physical conditions of the labor each had to perform‚ many parallels
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they didn’t consider her life itself if she was married‚ or even abused. Blacks continued to be treated unfairly even when the law changed‚ and the Act XII‚ if a white man was to lie with a slave and a child is born‚ the child would be born into slavery.
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The Treatment of Black Enslaved Women In the middle of the 19th century‚ thoughts about slavery differed from males to females‚ predominantly throughout the white race. The gender of a slave remained the main controversial issue about slavery‚ due solely on the fact that the treatment of enslaved black women was by far different from enslaved black men. Black women were raped by their white owners and conceived children from the assaults. They also had to undergo unfair treatment by white women
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Instead of reducing as stipulated by the constitution‚ Slavery spread to other western territories and states as new cotton fields were planted‚ and by 1830 it thrived in more than half the continent. Within 10 years after the cotton gin was put into use‚ the value of the total United States crop leaped from $150‚000 to more than $8 million. This success of this plantation crop made it much more difficult for slaves to purchase their freedom or obtain it through the good will of their masters. Cotton
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Bio William Edward Burghardt Du Bois‚ known as W.E.B. Du Bois‚ was born on February 23‚ 1868‚ in Great Barrington‚ Massachusetts. While growing up in a mostly European American town‚ he identified himself as "mulatto‚" but freely attended school with whites and was enthusiastically supported in his academic studies by his white teachers. In 1885‚ he moved to Nashville‚ Tennessee‚ to attend Fisk University. It was there that he first encountered Jim Crow laws. For the first time‚ he began analyzing
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“Mary! Back to work!” the loud slave driver yells at me. I was only helping Old-Man Sam up. I go back to my back breaking job in the cotton fields‚ that I don’t get paid for if I might add (2). Its 1852‚ there are rumors the a girl named Harriet escaped and started something called the underground railroad (1). No one’s really sure when it began‚ all we know is it’s a way out(4). Slavery has been a part of most black lives since the colonial times‚ there’s not many ways to get out of it(4)I’ve asked
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