However, slaves were caught up in the drama of revolutionary idea, so they started to fight for their freedom. ... Thus, the Revolutionary War was a beginning of slavery movement. The Revolutionary War was fought, so there would be freedom for all, and there should be freedom for all no matter what race or color. ... Therefore, the effects of the American Revolutionary War on African Americans depended on where they lived. ... The Revolutionary era also transformed different groups of black people. ...

• Word Count: 1901
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With the United States" debt only growing after the Revolutionary War, a plan was needed to alleviate the newly created U.S. of their serious economic problems. ... The Republicans claimed that assumption was against the ideals of the American Revolution, and that if the assumption law were to pass, the U.S. would become exactly what they had so adamantly fought against during the Revolutionary War. ... Even after the civil war, arguments of racial injustices and human rights that echo the slavery arguments of the revolutionary era have continued into the twenty-first century. ... In 1794, Was...

• Word Count: 1518
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The American Revolution or Revolutionary war was a war fought for the liberation of the American colonies from British Rule. Although the colonists won the war, there were still individuals who were not free from oppression. ... As the Revolutionary war dragged on, George Washington had been deserted by his men and has been forced to enforce a plan to create of a regime made of free slaves and blacks in Rhode Island. ... On the other hand of the war, slaves have also heard that the British Army has offered to take away those slaves who served in their army a path away from the colonies and a c...

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Nicholas Kristof, journalist, claims that during the Civil War, rape was okay in Sierra Leone. Yet when the war ended and it was no longer allowed to shoot people, rape was still occurring. ... Sexual violence really had a jumpstart in Sierra Leone during the Civil War (March 1991 " July 2001). The main offenders were the rebel forces of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) and the West Side Boys (a group of the AFRC). ... Under this law, the civil war was "an internal armed conflict " ("We'll Kill You If You Cry " p.55). ...

• Word Count: 2075
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• Grade Level: High School

The Civil War occurred for many reasons. ... Blacks had served in the War of 1812 and the Revolutionary War, but they had been barred from state militias since 1792. ... The Civil War began in 1861 and ended in 1865.By the end of the Civil War 186,000 blacks soldiers had served in the war. ... Reasons Why the Civil War Began. ... The End of the Civil War....

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The Declaration fought for the freedom of the white American; the rights of the black man were not included in this new revolutionary legislation. ... "In fact there was a notable gap between antislavery rhetoric and the realities of revolutionary politics. The slavery issue could not be allowed to divide revolutionary alliances or to take precedence over such critical questions as military defense and political reconstruction." ... By 1775 the necessities of war had pulled both free and slave Negroes towards the British army, many of them clutching promises of freedom as their eventual rewar...

• Word Count: 1913
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Douglass, through the entirety of the story, uses references to American Revolutionaries to show the correlation between the plight of African Americans and those issues that the American Revolutionary War was fought for. ... Douglass was not at all blunt in the meanings of all of these revolutionary references. ... They risked their lives, not unlike the American Revolutionaries who fought for their independence less then 100 years before. ...

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That was the time when bloody civil war was about to complete its 3 continuous year. ... From the first days of the Civil War, slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. ... The only consistently revolutionary class during the period of Reconstruction was comprised of the freed slaves and those landless whites that gravitated around them. ... The only consistently revolutionary class during the period of Reconstruction was comprised of the freed slaves and those landless wh...

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Few leaders surfaced from these wars such as Francois-Dominique Toussaint Louverture. ... During the Spanish American wars of independence, 1808-1833, the term caudillo began being used to describe political leaders. ... Similarly to those leaders in the Spanish American wars of independence, the Haitian leaders had characteristics that replicate those of caudillos. ... Though, like a caudillo in the Spanish American war, he also had plans to become a more prominent figure to the slaves, his country and to other countries. ... Although Laurent Dubois does not use the term "caudillos"...

• Word Count: 1261
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ellis includes that the battle among proslavery and anti-slavery would be the "central and defining problem for the next seventy years of American history," because of the inability for Congress to take action against slavery which resulted in the population among the enslaved to grow leading to the bloodiest war in the nations history (Ellis 88). ... Ellis describes Franklin as "unquestionably the oldest, probably the wisest, member of the revolutionary generation" (Ellis 108). ... The next twenty plus years of slavery would lead into the tragic Civil War. ...

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There was no civil war or Boer war. These wars had already taken place and there was no reason for Brazil to repeat the mistakes of histories past. ... The English employed many natives to fight in the war. ... The change of hands between the to leaders was slow but revolutionary for the region none the less. ...

• Word Count: 2418
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• Grade Level: High School

On the eve of the Civil War, the ration was one in four; and slave owners probably made up less than a third of southern whites. ... During the Revolutionary era, more than half of all African-Americans lived in Virginia and Maryland. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Regardless of how good or bad the actual lot of revolutionary Americans was, the inefficiency of their monarchial and colonial form of government is easy to see. ... The majority of blacks in the country found their situation admittedly little better than it was before the war. ...

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