African Americans In The 19th Century

African Americans have fought a great battle to become a part of society in America. Since being taken from African as slaves in the 1600’s there has been a continuous battle for equality since. Since the end of slavery Black Americans have had many accomplishments along with hardships. In this paper I will discuss some of the Major events in African American history beginning with the end of slavery which has lead to the America we know today.

As the United States kept on expanding, it started to face many problems. Education was vital in the 1800’s. The citizens of America wanted to establish schools which would educate the next laboring generation. A lot of people, as well as Horace Mann thought that all children had the right to go to school and get an education. This then brought up the problem of free public schooling for all kids. A bad side of this was African-American and Irish Catholic people were left out of this opportunity that started a little hypocrisy. This made the opportunities for women even stronger. Emma Willard, Catharine Beecher, and Mary Lyon were important to this battle. The reason for the movement is to offer an education to everyone despite level of class,

Throughout American history, African Americans fought to establish their own culture. Even though they were silenced by white laws and stereotypes, African Americans created their own distinct culture, to a certain extent from 1800 to 1860. By mixing their African American traditions and Christian ideas, they formed a religion, their own version of Christianity. African American rebellions, though small and infrequent, were used to express their beliefs on slavery and add to their distinct culture. And, with the constant fear of being split up by being sold, African American families managed to form within plantations through marriages and children. Despite

In the 19th and 20th centuries Europe was thriving and wealthy while most of their colonies in Africa were suffering under their rule. The Europeans all wanted a piece of Africa’s land with its plentiful resources and free labor. Around this time, Europe was going through the industrial revolution and because business was booming the European countries need more resources than they already had. The Africans had the land the Europeans wanted to use to continue having booming businesses, they also had African slaves and workers that they can use so they don’t have to pay for labor. In the 19th century leader of the Europeans countries want to discuss how they will divide Africa without the leaders of Africa knowing. The Europeans then started to invade Africa and take control over the citizens. As the Europeans got more powerful, the Africans become more miserable. Unable to match the guns Europe had, African countries began getting claimed, one by one with the exception of two. The Europeans ruled in a cruel way that left many Africans dead or suffering. Many countries tried and successfully broke away from Europeans after many years under colonization. The Europeans had a negative impact on the lives of many Africans in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially with racism and assimilation. People were taught to be a human they had to be like a European which led to many racist views on African people and culture and is why some nations like France used assimilation to make

Whites have always considered themselves superior to blacks, no matter if they were slave owners or not. Blacks were considered lower than humans, making them a main target of oppression of whites. So even when a small group of blacks were given their freedom, they weren’t truly liberated from the chains of slavery and oppression. Blacks were freed in the early 1800s, giving a limited amount of blacks the freedom they deserved. These blacks were usually rural, uneducated, and unskilled domestic servants who had to work hard to survive in the society that shunned them. Free blacks were still given restrictions and laws because of their status in society. In the early 1830s, a law in Virginia was made to prohibit all blacks from getting their education. They even took it to the level where free blacks who went out of state to educate themselves were not able to come back and return to their own state. The worst restriction was that blacks could not testify in court. When a slave owner claimed that a free black was their slave, they could not defend themselves, and would have to conform back to their slavery. Despite the terrible treatment given to blacks, some rose above the oppression and became successful, therefore achieving their goals and potentials of being a free black man, leaving a huge impact on society in the 1800s.

They were freed when Lincoln said the words of the Emancipation Proclamation. After that they were persecuted and prejudiced by the people of the South who kept a firm grasp on their beliefs. Before that, African Americans born in the antebellum South, and brought there, were slaves to white masters. Some slaves lived a good, enjoyable life, some lived through neverending pain, some were average and spent their days being invisible, but slaves are an important part of the history of the United States, and the lives of those who lived through slavery should not be ignored.

In 1860’s, women were not allowed to join the war, although they could become nurses instead. Women in the North mostly belonged to the Sanitary Commission. It was an organization that traveled to battle to get supplies to soldiers. In my opinion, the sanitary commission was not a good experience since ailments (diseases) could spread in the camps easily. In 1863, Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation, which stated Confederates had to let African Americans out or slavery. Later on, they were acquiesced (accepted) to join the North’s army. Although, if they were captured by the South, they would be killed, but this did not stop their perseverance. I believe this law passed by Lincoln was an excellent idea because African Americans are the same as us, we are all the same human creatures, just a different color; and equality for them should be accepted no matter what. There were spies like Elizabeth Van Lew that would tell others (the North) about what the Confederates were scheduling. She pretended to suffer from a dainty mental illness in order to muster (gather) information. I think that was very sneeky to do, but kids at school do the same concept: act like spies to ahold of rumors and etc. In the book, “Civil War” it states, “Sadly, two of their four sons died before Lincoln’s assassination in 1865…” This shows that Lincoln wasn’t having a peaceful life like people meant have thought, he was also afflicted from family losses too. General Lee sent a note to General Grant while surrounded by Union troops. They met at a house near Hamlet, and Grant approved the surrender of the Confederate Army.

In 1800 over 1 million settlers lived between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains. Most of these settlers were farmers and merchants, looking to ship their products to the New Orleans port. The United States and Spain signed the Pinckney Treaty to give Americans the right to sell their products. But in 1801, a Spanish governor had given New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory to Napoleon Bonaparte. Then in 1802, the Spanish Governor of New Orleans withdrew from the Pinckney Treaty, outraging Americans. Jefferson figured the best option was to buy the port of New Orleans.

New immigrants to the United States seized the chance to own land in their new country. Immigrants who wished to claim property had to first file intentions to become American citizens. Some states and territories even advertise in other countries, hoping to attract more people. Earlier immigrants encouraged their countrymen to homestead, describing life on the plains and officering advice, which resulted in people from all over Europe migrating to the west. So many Swedish and Norwegian immigrants arrived in Minnesota during the late 1860s that an editor of the St Paul Pioneer remarked: “It seems as if the Scandinavian Kingdoms were being emptied into the state” (Porterfield 31-3). Immigrants often settled in separate ethnic communities,

Will Rogers said, “We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.” In the American 1800’s, many citizens had problems with this idea. In the South, the slavery of African-Americans was a very popular source of labor. In the North, African-Americans were free, but they still suffered injustices. Because of the restrictions they were given as to how they lived their lives, the lack of political rights in most states, and the general racism demonstrated socially by many white citizens, free African-Americans in the North were not completely free.

After the Civil War Americans became a society in rapid transition influenced by increased urbanization, massive immigration and the rise of big business. There was shift from self employed farmers to industrial workers thereby causing a large scale organized labor movement to improve working conditions. By the early 1880’ s labor ranks swelled with membership of several hundred thousands. The Knights of Labor the largest organization for workers welcomed all wage workers including women, African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants. On May 4, 1886 a rally was held to denouncing the violence at the labor rally earlier in the week. Toward the end of the rally as police moved forward into the crowd a bomb was thrown, resulting in the

In a 200-year period spanning from the early 1500s to the late 1600s, three prominent titans of Europe would set their eyes on the New World with the goals of colonization and profit. When Columbus first sailed to the New World, he came across the Taíno, a native people of the island of Hispaniola. Upon seeing them, he remarked, “They were very well built, with very handsome bodies and very good faces...They do not carry arms or know them...They should be good servants” (Poole). This statement was simply the foreshadowing of something unimaginable; a series of conquests that would leave millions dead and millions more enslaved. Although the Native Americans were treated fairly by the French but at constant odds with the English, the true terror

The life of African Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries has been a truly storied past. One of the most astonishing aspects of African American life, in this period, is the degree to which it was heterogeneous. The experiences of African Americans differed widely based on geographic location, class, gender, religion, and age. Despite a high degree of variability in the experiences of Blacks in America, if one were to consider the sociopolitical fact that Black people as a group in America were a subordinate caste in dominant society, then it becomes possible to make certain overarching connections. One such connection is the presence of secretive subversive ideologies and actions. The existence of these secretive subversive activities is apparent if one examines the labor tendencies, the folklore, and the outward societal projections of black people. By briefly examining the labor practices of Black women in Atlanta during the latter part of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries, The Uncle Remus tales, and cultural icon Louis Armstrong, one can deduce that secretive subversive actions and beliefs were an integrated aspect of Black existence during this period.

Welcome to the world of racism. African-Americans are dying rapidly throughout the USA because of the past, African-Americans were slaves for not to be racial, but for colonial reasons. Today, the present has followed the past as white people don’t see African-Americans as pedestrians. Instead, they are all seen as targets and many of the innocent African-Americans are dying from the firing of guns. Why are African-Americans dying rapidly these days? What are the causes? It was taken back to the 1800s where African-Americans were treated inhumanely and were used for slave labor. In the 1800s, slaves worked seven days a week with zero pay as the slave owners were getting rich off of the plantation. There were no freedom as stated "The interlinked

From the 15th century to about the 18th century there was a struggle between European powers for control over the American continents. These struggles were faced by the French, English, Portuguese, and the Spanish Empire. The European powers forced cultural and religious ethics into the Native and African societies. By decimating native population with famine and war, while forcing western Africans into immigration. The Jesuits, French missionaries, unlike other European powers they first tried to understand the ways of the Natives before they forced their customs on them.