Unequal Treatment Of African Americans During The Civil War

Throughout the Civil War African Americans suffered greatly because of discrimination and because of their attempted escape from slavery. Thousands of the free blacks in the Union volunteered to serve in the Union army and to fight against the Confederacy. Although they risked their lives, they were not treated very well. At the start of the war, colored volunteers were forbade to enter the army. Congress, however, changed that in 1862, a year into the Civil War. Even though they were allowed in the troops, they were still treated very poorly.

For example, African American were allowed to vote and were considered free; however, they taxed voting so they could not exercise their right to vote. They were free from slavery;but, were caretakers and sharecroppers, if you were lucky then you would be a caretaker and help the rich white people, clean, cook and babysit for no money or little pay. Or like most of the south's population you were a sharecropper which was basically legal slavery, where you paid part of your crops as rent and kept the rest. Doing this you would never climb in the economy and be in

The free Negros were taxed and did not have the right to vote. Representatives and leaders were to caught up worrying about themselves they didn’t realize there hypocrite actions. As Britain did to America, America did to the slaves it was a cycle of disrespect. There was no common sense involved in the actions taken between both countries. Though America strived for a democracy they blatantly denied certain right such as those to free slaves. There were a total of eighteen free slaves who signed the petition, which can be related to the Declaration of Rights and

Although, many people do not understand that slavery was one of the main reasons that America was not free. Slavery is the capturing of people and keeping them for labor, chores, favors, etc., against their will. These people who became slaves are obviously not free, and this greatly contributed to the fact that America was not free during this time. African Americans contributed to much of the population, and since they were held captive and were not free in any way, and the rest of the population that consisted of Northerners and slaveholders in the South were not free either because of the mental burden slavery put on them and the responsibility that came with keeping slaves for some. History.com writes, “Slave owners sought to make their slaves completely dependent on them, and a system of restrictive codes governed life among slaves. They were usually prohibited from learning to read and write, and their behavior and movement was restricted.” Frederick

When you think of people being equal and everyone having the same rights, you think about freedom. Not many people had this during the 1800s. Slavery was still a thing and slaves were being treated unfairly. Slavery was one of the reasons for the civil war, did states have the rights to abolish slavery with their own government. The northerners were not big fans of the whole slavery thing. Southerners had plantation with 25-50 slaves working a day sometimes

          Freedom was finally rewarded to Americans, but how they manipulate, it was up to them. Was freedom and equality guaranteed for all men and women? Studying history we see that it does differ and in the Declaration it states, 'all men are created equal.'; This gets interpreted as all white men are created equal. In having such frame of mind, civilians began disputing. Not for the equal rights primarily, but for the unlawful slavery that was occurring. This time in history many laws and acts were distributed but often ignored such as the Fugitive Slave Acts 1850 and the Wilmont Proviso of 1846. Both were set for the benefits in trying to start the unchaining of slavery. Similarly to the Revolution, the Americans can be compared with the slaves of the United States. In parallel with writings from the Revolution, the Civil War had some great writers that

When the Civil War broke out in 1861 the North prided themselves in being progressive and respectful towards African Americans, however, they aren’t the saints history made them out to be. While blacks in the North were no longer slaves at this time (the 1860’s), they were still heavily discriminated against and didn’t have nearly as many rights as white people. On top of that, the population of whites vastly outnumbered the population of blacks, which would make it easier to oppress blacks. So the question remains, were African Americans in the North really and truly free? The answer: they weren’t.

People see it as blacks were free in the north because they compare it to the south, but really were they free? I guess you'll just have to find out. In 1850 the north and south had African Americans, in the north they were more free than the south because the south had slaves the north had black people but they were restricted to many things. Many of the free slaves down south where ex slaves or the children that were freed by the masters.The north didn't have slaves but put many restrictions on where and what blacks can do. Are Blacks more free in the north? Blacks were not free in the north they didn't have any power they could only stay with "their people". Back then making money was hard and when blacks didn't have social rights good luck

Many people will tell you that African Americans were free during the reconstruction after the civil war, which on paper may be the case. Life during this time was getting better, however, it still wasn’t good. African Americans faced multiple different forms of oppression that would make it seem that they were in prison. A few of these were the black codes, and the government's reaction to the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. However the amendments were not meant to have the states to poke holes in them, they were made to give freed African Americans the same right as everyone else.

Life for African American Slaves in the United States greatly differed from that of a typical white citizen. Beginning in 1619, slaves were being forced to the United States from their homeland of Africa where they would be bought and owned by a white man. Many were auctioned off and separated from their families to work on farms on arrival to America. Slaves were brought in for many years from Africa, but in 1808 international slave trade was no longer legal. Domestic slave trade, however, continued and thrived because many slaves were having children and raising families in captivity. There were many restrictions placed on what slaves were allowed to do. In

After the Civil War the freedman were not truly free. The definition of freedom is the power, or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraints. After the Civil War the slaves were considered free, but they were not treated accordingly. For the whites to still have power over the black's and to keep them in order the new laws started coming out so they don’t try and overpower the whites. In Alabama the new laws Governing the slaves, in Mississippi the Black Codes, and in various states the Jim Crow laws.

Following the Civil War, America was in shambles. There were many groups with strong, conflicting ideas of how things should be. However, most groups had one idea in common: reducing the rights of African Americans as much as possible. Freed slaves had very little freedom under the law, were treated like a lesser species by those around them, and faced dangerous environments everywhere they went. Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation may have legally freed slaves, but African Americans were barely more than paid slaves.

Whenever a free black took a trip to the south, they may take the risk of being sold as a slave. African-Americans could not testify in court the accused could not defend himself in court. Some laws passed in the early 1830s prohibited all African-Americans free or enslaved to vote, education, or possessed firearms. The free blacks didn't have a master, to the lord, and whip them, however, the blacks

The poor whites and free African Americans had many circumstances that put them outside of the dominant southern equations of white equals free and black equals slave. The poor white people had very limited opportunities of work. This is because many of the jobs the poor white people would do were taken by the slaves. Many times these jobs included being a farm laborer at harvest time and being tenant farmers. The poor white women and men both worked beside the slaves in the fields. At this time about 30-50 percent of all the southern whites were landless. The free African Americans were made up of about 250,000 free blacks. Even though these people were considered “free” they had no civil rights, besides owning their own land. The laws that

During the time that our nation was developing, slavery was still considerably around. Unfortunately, the views of our nation did not recognize the rights of African Americans or even valued them. So, I am sure that the slaves and even freed slaves during this time period didn’t view America the same way that a lot of people do today. To them, America was not a free nation. They were treated