Short Summary: The Process Of Scraping Cotton Seed

The story “The View from the Bottom Rail” is set at the time of the ending of the Civil War when slaves about to be freed from their masters. Knowing that the Union soldiers were close, the slave master would paint the soldier as “long horns on their head, and tushes (pointed teeth) in their mouths, and eyes sticking out like a cow!” (Davidson & Lytle, p. 177). Obliviously, this wasn’t true. With freedom coming, some slaves were still loyal to their masters. Yet, the slave masters still consider slaves to be the bottom rail of society.

During the late 1800s, because the South had been decimated by the end of the Civil War, .the Reconstruction Period was initiated to aid the South’s recovery. Although the Civil War did abolish slavery and unify the North and the South, the war not resolve racial prejudice, the South’s damage, and the African Americans’ economic instability. The Reconstruction Period was initiated in order to prevent economic instability and the structural ruin, because since slavery was abolished, and the South was completely dependent on slaves, therefore slaves could not work for the South to maintain the economy, and slaves also could not fix up the damages done to the structures done to the South during the war. By starting the Freedmen’s Bureau and passing

George Washington Carver was born into a world where African Americas were not treated equal. He was born during the Lincoln administration, where President Lincoln was working to have a united United States of America. The Southern part of the United States were supportive of having black slaves to work on their farms and plantations. The Northern part of the United States, however, did not support the use of slaves to perform work. This caused a huge conflict within the country and started the Civil War.

The British encouraged slaves of rebel masters to escape to British lines, though they were sometimes equivocal on whether the runaways would actually be freed (Frank, 2008). Slaves in the South sided with the British over the issue of independence because the British often promised slaves their freedom in exchange for their support in the Revolution. In essence, the Deep South did not favor independence because Britain endorsed slavery, and the southerners feared that the Patriots would eventually put an end to slavery, thus wreaking havoc on the economic provisions for the wealthy planter class. Overall, Pennsylvania and the Deep South did not want independence for a myriad of reasons. Pennsylvania was disinterested in independence because it did not have powerful allies like other states.

Douglass remembered Auld’s wife teaching him how to read, but Auld forbade her, saying it would make Douglass “unfit for slavery.” Even with this setback, it didn 't stop Frederick Douglass from learning to read on his own. Douglass thought of enslavers as criminals. After all, they decided to leave their homes in America, come into Africa, steal away

First, they blamed the south for causing the Civil War that ended prior. Secondly, they wanted to help the slaves because they felt they needed protection. His main concern was to make an economic opportunity for the slaves. He wanted them to make a living on their own and not depend of the “whites” as they have been used to. Then there was Charles Sumner, thinking on the same lines as Stevens.

The plantation owners either transfer the slaves to family members or they moved their whole plantation to a new area and took the slaves with them. The other way for slaves to be moved around the country was though sale, this was either done by selling slaves to pioneers moving west to establish their own plantation, or selling slaves to a nearby plantation. “This transfer of entire or partial plantations accounted for about 40 percent of the African American migrants. The rest — about 60 percent of the one million migrants — were “sold south” through traders. By 1860 a majority of African Americans lived and worked in the Deep South, the lands that stretched from Georgia to Texas.” Though 1800 and 1860 the African American population moved throughout the country to new established lands in the south and southwest areas for a few major factors.

Christianity, often linked with innate goodness and charity, defends men who continue to rape, abuse, and commit other sins. This reveals the paradox of the situation. As man becomes more and more reliant on this manpower for their luxuries, they turn to methods such as praying for salvation. “The religion of the south is a mere covering for the most covering crimes...strongest protection” (67) expresses the power of religion as a driving force of evil instead of good. The 19th century plantation owner prays to prove his devotion, which excuses him for his irreligious

The churches rallied voters for Republicans, provided relief, funded schools, and supported Republican policies. Although they advances of black institutions and education were marginal, these developments were the primary catalyst of civil rights movements of the future. On the other hand, the freedmen’s bureau failed at advancing economic independence of blacks because they didn’t establish a free wage-labor system. In 1862, Congress enacted the unsuccessful Southern Homestead Act of 1866. The land included in this act was of very poor quality because of its location or it had previously been robbed of nutrients by the economically taxing cash crop plantation system.

The economy of the South was mostly agricultural and they relied on slaves for labor. Once Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncles Tom’s Cabin, it became the best-selling book in that century according to Document 3. This book informed the Northerners of how terribly slaves were treated in the South. Many Northerners became abolitionists and tried to take action to end slavery. People in the South were completely opposed to the idea of ending slavery because their economic success depended on the labor of slaves.