Huck's father, Pap, is a deliberate racist who, in contrast to his son, imagines African-Americans are beneath him. ... Post-era Mark Twain; hatred continued to surround African-Americans, yet a promising future seemed achievable. African Americans after the war enjoyed many civil liberties that their predecessors could only dream of. ... The case was specifically held as another battle of racism towards African-Americans. ... This was a period of creativity and prosperity for African-Americans. ...

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While some may argue that slavery no longer affects African-Americans, we still see small amounts of animosity even today. ... Although the average American had little power or say regarding the issue, many were brainwashed into believing African-Americans were inferior or unequal. ... Jefferson, the genius of politics, could see no way for African-Americans to live in society as free people. ... In her article about African-American stereotypes, Monnica Williams says "Given that African Americans are a statistical minority in the US, the overwhelming majority of drug abusers will therefo...

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"African slaves were placed on ships and began the long journey to the Americas.   ... The trip from Africa to the Americas took at least six weeks.   ... "The Supreme Court decided the citizenship question for African Americans, slave and free, in Scott v. ... Congress were determined that African Americans be accorded all of the rights of citizenship-. 6 During Reconstruction period, the situation was still precarious and poor whites kept enjoying an additional status by keeping African Americans down. "From 1889 to 1899, on the average, one person was lynched every other day, and two o...

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His achievements in government had cleared a path for other African Americans to follow. ... Frederick Douglass would encourage many more African Americans to fight for the Union Army, "Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.... ... Nearly two hundred thousand African Americans were estimated to have served the United States Army and Navy by the end of the civil war. ... Not only did these achievements pave the way for other African Americans to follow, but they also weakened the stereotype that African American people are an inferior and sub-human type of being. ... After th...

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While they were making their way to Africa they picked up Gold and Slaves. ... Most slave traders were usually European or Arab, whom bought and sold people as a product, and some slave traders were even African American themselves. ... All in all, millions of the people captured in Africa for the slave trade never lived to see their destination. ... The American Constitution had declared in 1787 that any slave who escaped to a free state had to be returned to the owner. ... The outcome to all this is that the American Blacks had settled in. ...

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However, Lincoln portrayed as a man who, from early childhood, had but one goal, and that was to advocate on freeing the African-American slaves. ... In addition, the Founders planned to cut off its supply and restrict its expansion, which in short, "the framers of the constitution intended and expected the ultimate extinction of that institution.5 Within the cotton boom, it was beneficial for both Americans and African-Americans. ... To this end, he was in favor of "second-class citizenship" of African-American living in Illinois. Finally, Lincoln used prejudice to persuade...

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During the slave trade, African American were transported by Europeans who planned to sell them as slaves. ... Nearly 50,000 blacks chained side-by side were brought to America. ... Newly freed slaves and property holding African Americans provided an important source of manpower for the Union Army. ... African Americans finally received the rights that they deserved. African Americans started schools and churches, and began to take their place in American society. ...

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The Longest War in American History When you think of the longest wars in the history of the world, you immediately look back to wars fought centuries ago. ... In fact, not only did the Old South not accept their defeat, they did everything within their power and within the newly adopted Amendments to revert back to their old ways of mistreating African-Americans and thinking less of them. The emergence if Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan are the most common of examples, oppressing the rights of African-Americans and intimidating them to not do things such as vote, even though the 14th Ame...

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With the question of egalitarianism, it brought up the question of colonization of African Americans out of the United States. Lincoln had examined where African Americans would go after the abolishment of slavery because the country would become segregated. ... His first "impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia to their own native land," which leads to the idea of colonization for African Americans. Lincoln was pro colonization, therefore he believed that African Americans deserved the right to colonize outside of the United States. ... So, while preserving the Uni...

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Civil war was the greatest war in American history. ... More than three million Americans fought in it and more than 600,00 men died in it. ... Johnson was ill-suited to the challenges of Reconstruction and of defining African Americans' rights. Therefore, many Moderate Republican, who made up the majority of the Republican party, angry because his failure to protect African American's rights. ... It required states to extend equal citizenship to African Americans and all people were born naturalized in the United States.) ...

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Let me give you a example of this: The Union wanted equal rights for African Americans, but a lot of the southern states passed Black Codes. ... One of the most damaging part of Johnson's decisions with Reconstruction were his policies governing the African Americans. ... In one meeting with Governor William Sharkey, Johnson suggested giving voting rights to African Americans who could pass literacy tests. ... Johnson feared African American voters because he thought more politically inclined people around them would control them. ... It tells about the pushing of the radicals with the c...

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This canal would link the Atlantic Ocean to the middle of America. ... By 1830 America was producing half the world's cotton. ... Tubman was one of America's first civil right activists. ... Now, no Africans Americans is safe anywhere. ... Any African Americans can be condemned simply with an accusation. ...

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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), American poet, born near Haverhill, Massachusetts, and largely self-educated. ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) - American poet, one of the most popular and celebrated poets of his time. ... Langston Hughes (1902-1967) - American writer, known for the use of jazz and black folk rhythms in his poetry. ... Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) - American poet and biographer, known for his unrhymed free verse which uses precise and vivid images to portray the energy and brutality of American urban industrial life. ... Marianne Moore (1887-1972) - American poet, n...

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Its text explains key terms surrounding the Civil War, the importance of slavery to the war effort on both sides, Lincoln's efforts to regain the support of the rebellious states, the role of African American soldiers in the civil war, and America's place in the world wide progression to end slavery. ... The Proclamation also supported the recruitment of African American soldiers, who made an important impact to the Union war battle. ... African men, who were fighting for their own deliverance, had redoubled their efforts to join the army. ... For Four straight years, Union and Confe...

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Lincoln said, "If African American are men then the words of the declaration of independence apply to them, they are created equal and have right to life, liberty. ... South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana declared their independence and formed the Confederate States of America. ... At first Abraham Lincoln was opposed using African Americans in the Union Army. ... Eventually Lincoln changed his mind and 186,000 African Americans served in the Union Army and 24,000 in the Union Navy. ...

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Abraham Lincoln is considered one of the best presidents in American history. He had a great impact on American history that still impacts us yet today. ... Without him the north likely would of been defeated by the Confederacy, and African American's might still be slaves. ... This prompted many African-Americans to volunteer in the Union army and more than 180,000 joined, making up ten percent of the Union forces by the end of the war. There was opposition to this but African-Americans would not be willing to be given their freedom then have it taken away as Lincoln said in a letter to ...

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He was endowed with splendid wisdom, illustrious dignity, consciousness and insight that shaped and changed the American history. ... In the year 1858 Lincoln gave his most distinguished speech "House Divided" speech whish indicated several points, but what mostly important is stopping the importance of slaves from Africa, and holding slaves in free states automatically sets them free. ... Abraham Lincoln should be a role model to every individual and president to the United States of America. ... In my honest humble opinion, Lincoln was the best American president yet, and I doubt that b...

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Due to the American Civil War, the whole world perceived the American investment in arms industry and the Industrial Revolution's advances. The war also meant the end of slavery in the United States of America. ... Thus, the American Civil War begun. ... Similarly, pirates from North Africa captured Americans and treated as slaves. ... Over the years, black population have been wining an equal treatment in society, despite still nowadays are troubles in several countries, not only in the United States of America, but also in South Africa, Rwanda, and Argentina. ...

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Brown believed that the achievement of liberty had to be bought with the blood of those preventing enslaved Americans from attaining it. ... The fact that a white man was willing to sacrifice his own life for the rights of millions of African Americans motivated people within the movement to work harder than ever before. ... In some ways, Brown was the ideas of the American Renaissance in human form. ... The American Renaissance was largely humanistic and romantic, taking into account the value of a person's life. ... In the same way that they sought to secure their rights from the Britis...

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In his Narrative, Douglass exposes many striking and disturbing aspects of slavery in America. ... Moving ahead to September of 1862, Douglass writes his thoughts about President Lincoln's speech to African Americans in Washington, D.C. ... To add even more insult to injury, President Lincoln suggested that the African Americans should be sent back to Africa because the two races could not exist together. ...

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The process of rebuilding after the American Civil War is known as The Reconstruction. The Civil War left America with many stressful questions over what to do with the South after the crush of the Confederacy and the ending of slavery. ... An African American man could be arrested and charged with vagrancy because he was unemployed. ...

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The American Civil War was a milestone in the history of not only the United States, but the world as well. ... Through the bloodiest battles in American history, the goals of the Northern and Southern counterparts were either achieved or failed. ... The abolitionists simply wanted to extend the rights of freedom in America, and allow for fair competition in the lower class lives in the business world. ... These bloody battles murdered more Americans than in any war in U.S. history. ...

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Vallandigham's anti-abolition and anti- New England views received the applause of three elements of Ohio's diverse population: Irish-Americans and German-Americans who feared emancipation would release a flood of cheap and competitive labor upon their communities and southern "uplanders" that brought their anti-Negro prejudices with them.# As a supporter of state's rights and slavery, he helped form the Peace Democrats. ... He gained a reputation as a critic and obstructionist, Republican congressmen paid less attention to his speeches and comments.# Vallandigham was dubbed ...

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Douglass was a very successful abolitionist who changed America's views of slavery through his writings and actions. ... He left America, and stayed in the British Isles. ... In this time period, Douglass became friends with another well known American abolitionist, John Brown. ... Also, without knowledge, Frederick Douglass would not have become an American legend like he is today. ... White America wanted to hear no more of the subject; emancipation had been taken care of. ...

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Slavery was an episode in history, which scarred many African men, women, and children. ... However, in no other culture had slavery been exclusively associated with one race as was the case with African Americans in America. Slavery tore families apart, shattered dreams, and left African Americans feeling shameful and hopeless. ...

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