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equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

to Howard Fasts 1944 novel Freedom Road that until the publications of this novel, it was a widely held opinion among the mainstre...

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

There were many circumstances that combined to eventually cause the outbreak of the bloodiest war in American history....

Blacks have...

In twelve pages this paper discusses the Reconstruction policies of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson for after the Ci...

two was difficult. Healing did not come quickly or easily. Hatred between the two entities continued to exist. The South did no...

Henry Wirz, an American Civil War criminal, is evaluated as to the truth of his criminality. Was he a scapegoat? Many details are ...

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

we can talk about what is getting ready to explode right under our feet. I know that many of your cousins and friends are reading...

2008). In the South the economic system relied heavily on slavery and thus the political leaders of the South were quite i...

Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

results (Posen, n.d.). When the rats were examined, they had "swollen and hyperactive adrenal glands, shrunken immune tissue (thym...

square miles and Franklin County Pennsylvania encompasses approximately 772 square miles. Despite their similarity in size, howev...

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

The American Civil War shook our nation like it had never been shaken before. It was a time...

While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...

made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

have any solid answer. The following paper examines reasons why the South lost, and focuses on the fact that it likely lost due to...

analysis and interpretation of the material led him to conclude that the Restoration was a success, particularly in light of the p...

lived simply, many people were middle class as well. In the South the focus was on plantations, farming, and the people were essen...

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

assistance from the government. Another problem involving the land was the fact that aristocrats were buying up large tracts and ...

were now equal, they put into place a system of support that would forever keep many African Americans in a position of submission...

notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...