The Long And Bloody War For Freedom Summary

His master had a plentiful garden on the property which some slaves could not stop themselves form eating from, if a slave was caught eating from this garden they would be submitted to a public beating. Fredrick’s master also had an impressive stable with horses and carriages. He left two slaves a father and son in charge of running the stable taking care of his horses. The master was strict about how his horses where kept and often whips both men for simple mistakes in the horses treatment that even they themselves cannot even control. No matter how much discrimination and unfair treatment slaves got they where not allowed to complain about anything to their master.

In the month of February 1861, seven states had already left the Union to form the Confederacy. After the bombardment of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln took action and ordered his troops to save the Union. By doing this, however, he caused four more states to join the Confederacy.

While reading the book Five Years to Freedom by James N. Rowe. Throughout the book Nick Rowe goes through many obstacles and problems when being captured and becoming a prisoner by the Vietcong. The main idea of the book is while Nick Rowe was captured in the life span of five years he went through many stages of fear, sickness, and hopelessness.

James McPherson is the author of the book What They Fought For. McPherson breaks the book into three parts, “Chapter 1 will explore Confederate elucidations of this and related themes; chapter 2 will look at the Union side; chapter 3 will analyze the perceptions of the slavery issue by both Confederate and Union soldiers” Through the usage of diaries, and letters from the Union and the Confederate soldiers. Will allow us to depict the reasonings for them fighting in the civil war. McPherson state's, “That book will explore the motives of Union and Confederate soldiers for enlisting and fighting in the Civil War.”1 In my opinion, I believe there are more differences in the motivations that led Confederate (Southern) and Union (Northern) soldiers to fight in the Civil War. I believe there may have been a few

The 22nd and 28th Iowa Regiments left Hamburg in June of 1865. Their war was over.

The Civil War caused a shift in the ways that many Americans thought about slavery and race. Chandra Manning’s What this Cruel War Was Over helps readers understand how soldiers viewed slavery during the Civil War. The book is a narrative, which follows the life of Union soldier who is from Massachusetts. Chandra Manning used letters, diaries and regimental newspapers to gain an understanding of soldiers’ views of slavery. The main character, Charles Brewster has never encountered slaves. However, he believes that Negroes are inferior. He does not meet slaves until he enters the war in the southern states of Maryland and Virginia. Charles Brewster views the slaves first as contraband. He believes the slaves are a burden and should be sent back to their owners because of the fugitive slave laws. Union soldiers focus shifted before the end of the war. They believed slavery was cruel and inhumane, expressing strong desire to liberate the slaves. As the war progresses, soldiers view slaves and slavery in a different light. This paper, by referring to the themes and characters presented in Chandra Manning’s What this Cruel War Was Over, analyzes how the issue of slavery and race shifted in the eyes of white Union soldiers’ during Civil War times.

The book The War for Independence: The Story of the American Revolution, by Albert Marrin, covers the time period of 1775-1783. Marrin talks about important events, individuals, and detailed battles during America's fight for independence. He includes important events such as the French and Indian War, the Boston Massacre, and the War of 1812.

The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century was written by Catherine Clinton. Catherine Clinton is the Denman Professor of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Clinton grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and later studied sociology and African American History at Harvard University, graduating in 1973. Clinton maintains strong research interest in US history, specifically women’s history. She had published many popular books that examine different perspectives toward women’s contribution during the nineteenth century, how African-American women played a major role during the American Revolution. As we speak for women, Catherine Clinton pointed out that women were left out entirely in US’s history, their

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court shows both sides of slavery through peasants. Tis book was written after slaves in America were free but showed the opposition they faced. In the chapter Freemen!, the narrator, later identified as Hank Morgan, compared Demoiselle Alisande la Carteloise and some “freemen”. Alisande was well washed, and well fed.

Third, Bacon’s Rebellion, involving rebellious former seeking land, led white planters force a looking more flexible force .Moreover it was more profitable to purchase Negro man. Their price was a little expensive, but they worked for whole life. According to labor owned by a Virginia planter, 1648 the cost white slave for instance, Thomas Groves was 1300(in lbs tobacco) for 4 years of service, however a cost of Negro man for instance, Mingo was 2000(in lbs tobacco) for whole life. This is another reason of increasing population and demand for black skin slaves. The rapid increase in the slave population led to strict control, cruelty and justification to brutality. Englishman called slave the” strength and the sinews of this western world . The slave trade horrors were inconceivable. Oladah Equiano, a slave from Nigeria described some horrors of slavery the “Middle passage”. Equiano and his youngest sister were seized by raiders. They passed from one trader to another. Majority of their slave group died, because of exhaustion or hunger. They were gathered in the merchant’s yard, like so many sheep in fold, without taking into account the sex or age. After signal given, the buyers rushed into the yard and choose for the best one. Furthermore, without scruple, relations and friends separated. In the vessel where Equiano was, there were two brothers which were sold in different slots. This is obvious example of new refinement in cruelty, which adds horrors to

“We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.” - Lech Walesa. Freedom - the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Such a small definition for a word with so much meaning. This miniscule word has inspired people and even started wars.This topic is rarely regarded; even though we would certainly know if someone took our freedom from us.

The Civil War ends in 1865 with the Confederacy on the losing end. Several questions need to be answered; what were the causes of the Confederate defeat, Union claimed victory after four long years of war, why had it taken so long, could the South have won the war, and if the Rebels had won would a reunion have been possible?

The Revolutionary War, sometimes known as the American War for Independence, was an armed conflict between Great Britain and the 13 colonies, from 1775 to 1783. Being caused by colonies rejecting British taxes and strict, impractical rules and regulations, it eventually led to the development of the United States. The Civil War, which was fought from 1861-1865 was a war between the Union which was almost all northern and western states, and the Confederate States of America which was almost all southern states, primarily over the practice of slavery. To date, the Civil War remains the deadliest conflict in U.S. history.

The revolution war was evolutionary because it helped to push the new nation to new heights. In this assay I will tell you about how the USA got started. Noy are you ready to take a ride. Let's go.

The American Revolution was the first real form of freedom introduced to America, and it happened for numerous reasons. Three main reasons could be The Boston Massacre, tea problems, and colonist agitation.