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How Did Nat Love Contribute To Love

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Nat Love the youngest of 3 siblings is the son of Shampson love, he was born June 1854 on a slave plantation owned by Robert Love in Tennessee. Nat’s father worked as a foreman on the plantation while his mother worked in the kitchen of the “big house”. Nat was raised primarily by his older sister when he was younger, but she too worked in the kitchen of the house, so Nat began to look after himself more and more often. Although he had not had any formal education or schooling Love learned to read and write by the assistance of his father. He is known as one of the first black cowboys to receive recognition for his achievements. After the emancipation proclamation was passed and the slaves were freed, Nat’s father became a sharecropper on the land of his former slave owner. Then suddenly his father passed away and he became the new sole provider for his family. He was able to obtain many jobs on various plantations where he showed exceptional skills in breaking horses. Then in 1869, at the age of 15, looking well beyond his years, Nat left his family in the care of an uncle and headed west with …show more content…

And while the west was by no means racist free it did offer many freedoms that at the time the south just did not. One of those freedoms was having the right to carry a firearm. Where back in the south that was not permitted by African Americans. Also the south was using the newly passed black codes which in my opinion were slavery in every way but the name. Cowboys and African American troops in the west were given more freedoms because most of the west did not function under black codes. Blacks were allowed to eat and be served in establishments that in the south blacks were excluded from. In fact the black soldier and cowboys were being served over Mexicans and Native American costumers at the

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