America 's Abolition Of Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy, and sell other individuals, as a form of property. Slavery was very active in the southern parts of America, while the north trailed away having antislavery laws. Many people began to oppose slavery after events such as the abolition of slavery and the fact that all men are created equal.

The issue of slavery was left out of the Declaration of Independence for a reason, but why? We’ll also go over what the abolition of slavery is. We will find out whether abolition was present in the colonies during the American Revolution. And we will discuss how Lord Dunmore’s 1775 Proclamation influenced the Declaration of Independence. Those are the topics we will be covering today.

However, as people had never imagined, the close communication brought disasters in the American continent. Unknown diseases, such as smallpox, from Europe killed most of the native without immunity. For example, a modern analysis states that the result of smallpox epidemic “proceeded to kill nearly half of the Aztecs, including Emperor Cuitlahuac… By 1618, Mexico’s initial population of about 20 million had plummeted to about 1.6 million.” (Doc 8) The declining native population changed the American demographical pattern to a large extent, pushing the indigenous people to extinction. Moreover, the conditions of African slaves reveals the misanthrope of the merciless European colonists. For example, John Barbor eyewitnessed the terrible slave trade where “they are put into a booth or prison, marked on the breast with a red-hot iron, imprinting the mark of the French, English, or Dutch companies.” (Doc 9) The catastropy of American and African people greatly transformed the political pattern in the “New World.” In Twelve Years a Slave, in the nineteenth century, 300 years later, in the U.S., almost all of the Indians settlers were expeled and excluded from the white society. The slaves in American society were suffering the terrible atrocities. However, given the “expensive” price, the American continent became a cultural hodgepodge with the intermingle ethnic

Lasting six years, the American Revolution resulted in a significant amount of lives being lost, not only to war but to disease and infection as well (Schultz, 2013). Division among the colonists was felt between those loyal to the cause and the rebels, as well as, the ones that were indifferent to either (Schultz, 2013). Disruptions of daily life resulted because soldiers were away from their homes and families for extended amounts of time and women managed the households, families, and civic life (Schultz, 2013). Additionally, slaves were unsure of their futures because there were no signs of them obtaining freedom (Schultz, 2013).

The Civil War may have ended, yet that did not seem to halt the blatant racism that continued to linger throughout the country during the Reconstruction period. The Thirteenth Amendment was a great step forward for this country, unfortunately not every southern individual felt this way. Freed slaves faced a multitude of problems ahead; even if people believed in abolishing slavery, that did not necessarily mean they agreed with freed people possessing the same civil rights as themselves. Abolishing slavery was the first step, but dealing with the social, economic, and political racism was to be dealt with in the years to come.

After a few months of debates over the attempted drafts of the US Constitution, they finally agreed that the perfect one had been written. It was signed in September 1787. The signing still was not enough, it still needed to be ratified by nine of the thirteen states. That finally happened almost a year later on June 21, 1788 when New Hampshire ratified it.

During the Civil War there was much confusion in our country as to why we are fighting each other. Both sides in the beginning fought by patriotism, state pride, a chance for adventure, and steady pay. Later on we would realize that The Federals fight to preserve the union and to abolish slavery. The Confederates fought for the sole purpose to keep slavery apart of society. The push for abolishing slavery, as expected the Union army grew exponentially in numbers from the black soldiers, Roughly 179,000 black soldiers wore blue and fought for the Union.

Even though Abraham Lincoln was disdained by many people, specifically Confederate loyalists, during his presidential term. He will be remembered for being one of the greatest presidents to ever led our nation through one of its toughest times in history, the Civil War and abolishment of slavery. Meanwhile former history teacher Bill O’Reilly, and historian Martin Dugard illustrated the astonishing, vivid details that brought to life Lincoln 's final days before Lee 's surrender at Appomattox Court House and Abrahams assassination. Furthermore Killing Lincoln is a thriller that will swell one 's brain with knowledge and excitement.

However, with Jefferson’s dislike for the institution he knew that to oppose the issue could tear the nation completely apart. In 1820, during James Monroe’s Presidency the Missouri Compromise was approved. The Missouri Compromise essentially regulated the balance for the admittance of Slave and Free States into the Union. In Thomas Fleming’s A Disease in the Public Mind the author, states that with the Compromise’s passing that Jefferson declared that it signaled the end of the Union of the nation as they had once known it. With this idea in mind, Fleming presents how the Missouri Compromise seemed unsettling for Jefferson, who believed that regulating the state’s choice to have slavery or not would not end the institution but only stir up more loathing for the Southern States. Along with this Fleming, points out how many slave owners made the claim that the slaves they owned were considered property and were entitled to their property to be preserved by the government. It was here that the first changes in the nation’s society and economics take place in the United States. With the further spread of slavery into the west, the abolitionist and anti-slavery movements began to rise changing the minds of many who lived in the North and even some in the South to look at their society as a whole, which formed the question whether the institution of slavery was a moral and just one. This idea of slavery being moral and moral in American society heavily relied on the religious

When the American Revolution began and the country sought to remove Britain from themselves, they produced several differences in the rights of man. The major issue dealt around will individuals have freedom of religion and conscience or will the state set up a national church (Sehat 2011, 15-16). The first major point that Sehat brings up in his books is that certain individuals were worried when disestablishment of the national church happened, what is the basis to provide morals for the general society. Colonial leaders at the time thought when individuals were free to choose that those individuals will choose to be immoral and the society at large will be put in danger (Sehat 2011, 16). Certain individuals saw that religion could be used

Abraham Lincoln is to abolishing slavery as lemons are to lemonade. President Lincoln’s memorial is great in size and stature; a grand marble building lined with pillars and a large open airway with a perfect view of the righteous president relaxing in a Romanesque platform just shy of twenty feet tall. The memorial echoes the touch of a Greek architect, and the air about Lincoln has a striking similarity to the memorial of the Greek god Zeus. While Lincoln looks to be in touch with the world’s ancient past, his work is associated with something not so long ago: freeing America’s slaves.

In the 1840s slavery become a big issue in the United State of America. Since passing the Louisiana Purchase, the United State start expanding their land. They took over the Indian Territory by forcing them to leave the country or to relocate in the different city. The expansion of the United State leads to decide some state should be a free slave. In the 1820s, they passed a low that request 36’30 parallel are decided to be a free state. Abolition slavery becomes a question In the American society. The black African American population also increased over time and this lead the US government to really consider abolishing of slavery. Which cause the black community to be upset and divide the people in two-way pro-slavery and anti- slavery. The 13th amendment, the propaganda of the Republican Party proved the United State want to end slavery.

When you think of the abolishment of slavery, what is the first place you think of? Was it the United States? Maybe even Africa? Although these two regions are well discussed in the history of slavery there are for more areas that were involved. For the purpose of this paper, the two regions that have been chosen are the United States and Haiti. The United States was colonized by a mix of different races. The most predominant were English settlers and Haiti was predominantly French settlers. These two regions bought, sold and traded slaves by the use of the Transatlantic Slave trade. However, both the United States and Haiti played a significant role in the abolishment of slavery.

Looking at the five selected works, one has to ask: was abolitionism a success? True, slavery in the United States was abolished, but it took a devastating war and for most abolitionists that was not how they foresaw the struggle going. The problem of inequality was also something that had to be challenged and a small hope came in the form of the fifteenth Amendment gave African American males the right to vote. The vision of equal rights for black men was realized or yet it seemed to be. Over the next century, America broke its promise of “the equal protection of the laws” and much of what the Abolitionists fought for had to be fought for in the times to come. Nevertheless, the abolitionists deserve tremendous credit for holding America to

In order to talk about the abolition of slavery it is necessary to know the meaning of slavery and abolition. According to Dictionary.com the word “Slave means: a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person and abolition means: “the legal prohibition and ending of slavery, especially of slavery of blacks in the U.S.” Now that both words were defined we can begin. “It is said that the first African slaves were brought to the United States near the English Colony back in 1619 to Jamestown, Virginia by some Dutch traders. If we were to discuss the origins of slavery we would have to start not in the United States, but we would have to shift gears to Brazil were they were the biggest slaves traders of all times” according to History.net