The book that I read was the Apostles of Disunion by Charles B. Dew. This book explains the action of secession commissioners who were given the assignment to travel throughout the South and to other slave states in the years 1860 and 1861. Eventually, their efforts were for not because those men were found guilty of recruiting people to follow secessionary ideals as well as supporting secessionary ideals. I think Dew is trying to get his main point across that people are mistaken if they think that the preservation of slavery in the south was not the primary ideal that lead to the secession and Civil War. I think that he tries to explain through most of the information given to us that states rights may have sparked the secession and civil war but it
Bernard Baruch was an adviser to presidents from World War I to World War II and became a confidant of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is because of him that the Mrs. Simon Baruch University Award bi-annually by the General Organization of the United Daughters of the Confederacy became endowed. This award is presented to the author of a previously unpublished monograph or full-length book manuscript dealing with Confederate history, including the ante-bellum period, the causes that led to secession and the War Between the States. The award is presented in even-numbered years and consists of a $500 author’s award and a $2000 publication award. It is considered as a grant-in-aid for the purpose of encouraging research in Southern
First, during the years 1936-1938, 2,300 people, who were former slaves in the United States, had been interviewed about their own experience of slavery by the Federal Writer’s Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA was able to interview people in over seventeen states to preserve the ex-slaves life for people who did not live in those times of slavery. These sources are responses of the ex-slaves feelings about this “peculiar institution”. These interviews were documented to ensure an accurate history of the ex-slaves experiences before they died of old age or disease.
Semester II Anchor – Historical Narrative Back in 1936, I was unsuccessful in my attempts to find a suitable job in journalism, even though I graduated from Harvard University with a major in English. Coincidentally, I was contacted by Jacob Baker, representing the Federal Writers Project, with the offer to interview former slaves in order to give insight to future generations about the system of slavery from those who actually experienced its cruelty. Of course, I accepted immediately and began conversing with several slaves within the month. The Federal Writers Project has definitely been the most eye-opening experience of my entire life, and it has already been fifteen years since I first interviewed these fascinating people.
The Civil War was one of America’s most trying and troubling times. Following the Civil War was Reconstruction, which posed an important question that would affect the country forever, “What do we do with the South?” During Reconstruction, the Government was faced with a plethora of difficult questions to answer and a series of difficult situations, but the topic at hand was the same reason the Civil War started in the first place: African Americans. The statement “After the Civil War, the only way to truly enfranchise former slaves was by effectively disenfranchising their former masters” is true because white Southerners would constantly and consistently attempt to undermine African Americans. There were many ways that white Southerners used to belittle African Americans; the creation of Black Codes were one of these ways.
These particular facts contribute to his overall push for continued, assertive action against the government. He finds it essential that the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester be able to visualize such revelations on the reality of American society. Realizing this provides them the means to take more radical steps towards greater civil equality and rights for African Americans, despite the laws prohibiting equivalent efforts. This shift brings the author closer to his end result of using passionate language to convey his
Worse than Slavery, by David Oshinsky, is a novel about post-Civil War America, and the life it gave free African Americans in Mississippi and other parts of the South. Oshinsky writes about the strict laws and corrupt criminal justice system blacks faced after they were freed, and while the contents of the book are not typically read about in history textbooks, it is important to understand what life was like for the freedman. Anyone interested in reading his book would profit from it. With the end of the Civil War came the destruction of the old system of slavery. Many white Southerner’s were outraged, but were forced to accept the newly freed blacks.
Everywhere the war was discussed, fought, analyzed, re-analyzed, cheered and damned, the enslaved were there or thereabout. As Ward makes clear, like the institution that imprisoned them, the enslaved were an integral part of life in the South, an inextricable component of all the southern institutions—public and private. Intimately linked to the soldiers, sailors, and politicians of all ranks, the enslaved were a constant presence, witnessing much of everything that was said or read aloud. And, once fed into the infamous “slave grapevine,” the black community learned about the discussions taking place in the “Big House,” in the corridors of power, and around military campfires. Never the mere objects about which two mighty, white armies fought, seen through the eyes of the bondmen and women, the Civil War becomes in some ways a different war.
John Brown’s, “Address of John Brown to the Virginia Court” shows how much a man from the North cares about his people,“‘Now if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice and MINGLE MY BLOOD FURTHER WITH THE BLOOD OF MY CHILDREN, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments—I submit; so LET IT BE DONE.” ’ This man from the North who allowed his lips to speak these words had previously freed slaves and is now being penalized for his unjust comportment; his words show the extent of his care towards others. Because of this strong willed man’s actions, he gives a perfect example of the passion that most civilians of the North have regarding the freedom of the enslaved. The document on “Mississippi’s Declaration of Secession” describes what drives the people of the South to take initiative to achieve what they aspire for, the continued success of their goal in keeping slavery in action, “We must either submit to degradation [loss of self respect], and to the loss of property worth four billions of money, or we must secede from the Union framed by our fathers, to secure this as well as every other species of property.”
It is a Friday afternoon, I see sitting down at a table outside a café in London, Mrs. Mary Prince in a long blue dress. I join her for a cup of tea and a discussion about her book The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself. I had a long list of questions I wished to ask her, but so as to not waste her valuable time, I kept our discussion short. The excerpt of her story talks about how all of the slaves wanted freedom, going against the popular belief that slaves were happy being slaves and did not want to be free. Slaves had a very rough life.
The living legacy of the United States Civil War is a complicated time in American history one finds difficult to describe. The ramification of the war prior, during and after still haunt the current citizens who call The States their home. Tony Horwitz’s book Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War looks at the wide gap of discontent that still looms in the late 1990s. For some southerners, the Confederacy still lives on through reenactments, stories and beliefs. For others in the South, reminders the land was dedicated to the Confederacy spark hatred and spite.
Reading this memoir helps people have a better understanding of how unjustly the slaves were treated. However, just because slavery isn’t as transparent as it once was before doesn’t mean it isn’t there anymore. In today society, slavery has been still continuing, such as young people are being trafficked all around the world. Learning about the history is crucial because it shouldn’t be repeated. There are many people that have lost their lives and are forever gone without their story being told.
It was a point for Lester to express that the book is expressing human’s lives with the condition of slavery. The book itself stayed true to the history of slavery during the time period spanning over two hundred years, and encouraged the readers, including
I’m familiar with the term Synoptic Gospel. The Synoptic Gospels includes similar stories found in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. They stand in difference to John, his content is somewhat distinctive. Each Gospel is written to different audiences, but the subject matter are the same and treated in similar ways. Synoptic in the Greek, which means presenting or taking the same point of view .
Who is the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit has been a part of our lives from the very beginning. It is because of the Holy Spirit that we are able to communicate with God. The Holy Spirit is the reason that we are able to hear from God, know right from wrong, and so much more.
