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

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

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

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

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...

This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the American Civil War. Modern aspects such as civic participation and the use of a...

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the fight post Civil War for African American equal rights. This paper includes the formati...

Blacks have...

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....

Slavery was a component of world history practically since the beginning of mankinds reign on earth....

slaves played a role during the Civil War in eventually seeing freedom is as follows: "By running from masters to become contraban...

This 5 page essay presents the writer/tutor's argument as to why the American Civil War was unpreventable and could not be avoided...

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at American history. Discussion questions are answered in short essays about civil righ...

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at black soldiers in the Civil War. The experiences of inequality endured by such soldi...

The years between 1865 and 1877 were known as the Reconstruction era because the country was trying to recover and rebuild after t...

alive during the time period are still alive. And, perhaps through further research women can begin to be seen more diversely as i...

a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118)....

of slave states and free states. A compromise was worked out regarding the admission of Missouri to the Union. The Missouri comp...

became tenants and landlords (Ruef and Fletcher, 2003). Slaves who escaped this fate were still unskilled and had to take jobs f...

this paper, well examine Reconstruction from a "hindsight" view, then attempt to come up with some different recommendations for t...

North was not quite as conducive to farming. Although it is true that perhaps the South might have become more prone to industrial...

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

Confederacy. The events leading up the planning and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many ...

was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...

came replete with very definite opinions on the war and the factors behind it which interlaced the everyday lives of both the comm...