Emancipation

Emancipation

Read the following discussions as provided by the following two students and contribute further to their arguments. You must also agree to what they have written or if you don’t agree, give evidence.
150 WORDS for each comment, total are two

Here is the first one:

The civil war shed so much blood as slavery. This war gave rise to a new “nation” as Abraham Lincoln said (voices of freedom, 292). The life of the African-Americans changed since the emancipation brought “new birth of freedom” (voices of freedom, 292). “All men are created equal” with these words created a new history for the black race that had been humiliated and mistreated for many years. The opportunities of new lives for these men and women began to emerge and although many men continued to disagree with equality between races others supported emancipation.

These new free men now had the opportunity to have a job that was remunerated and not to be mistreated by their employers. An example of this is mentioned by Marcus M. Spiegel, Letter of a Civil War Soldier. He says I am willing to hire them and favor of making the black work at all events “(voices of freedom, 268) which explains that the soldiers themselves tried to guide the emancipated men to a new life.

These new free men now had the opportunity to have a job that was remunerated and not to be mistreated by their employers. An example of this is mentioned by Marcus M. Spiegel, Letter of a Civil War Soldier. He says I am willing to hire them and favor of making the black work at all events “(voices of freedom, 268) which explains that the soldiers themselves tried to guide the emancipated men to a new life.

When the civil war started the black men could not be part of the army even if they wanted. After some time in war it was decided that men of color could volunteer in the army and fight for their freedom. As mentioned by Frederick Douglas on Black Soldiers. He says “as casualty rolls expanded, pressure mounted to allow blacks to serve”. Maybe a dream for many men of color, fight for their country. These events helped to ensure that the same freedom continued to spread throughout the country and that the anti-slaves movement continued to grow.

Here is the second one:

The American Civil War was a turbulent time for many, and with one of the primary disagreements between the North and the South surrounding the ideas of slavery it comes as no surprise that this would be and equally turbulent time for free blacks and slaves alike. While there were more factors at play that were contributing to the nations divide in addition to slavery, it was a hot topic of discussion on both sides of the divide.

With Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation paving the way, free black volunteers were allowed to join the ranks of the Union Army, although it wasn’t until after the war had ended that they were able to rise in rank as officers (Foner 297) and with their involvement in the war effort helped to secure the rights and citizenship of blacks (Foner 294). In eighteen sixty-three Frederick Douglass wrote “Action! Action! not criticism, is the plain duty of this hour” (Foner 294) because it was Douglass’s belief that if the war was to be won solely by whites the fate of the free and newly free black Americans would provide half as much for slaves versus having themselves won their freedoms (Foner 295).

Something that came as a bit of a surprise was the exemption of Tennessee and other border states in the Emancipation Proclamation (Foner 306). After the war and during Andrew Johnson’s presidency a series of codes emerged to regulate or remove certain privileges of newly freed slaves (Foner 312). These many codes that came from Johnson’s time in office regulated the ownership of property by blacks and even their marriages as well as prevented them from giving testimony before a court of law (Foner 312). What freedom’s they won in the Civil War were quickly quantified and regulated, leaving them to live in a adulterated form of freedom and they would not be fully free for some time to come.

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I agree with the idea that the American Civil War led to a lot of bloodshed in the nation. It is similar the sufferings brought about by slavery in so many ways. President Abraham Lincoln propounded that the war had tremendous change on the socio-economic structure of the nation. By this, he meant that the manner in which the African Americans lived was to improve after the…

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