African Americans After The Civil War Of 1865

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.

In the 1680’s most Africans were working on plantations. As Mintz explains how black slavery become the dominant labor, “ 1680’s that Black slavery became the dominant labor system on plantations ” (2, Mintz). The colonists wanted the africans because they would work the best on plantations. This quote demonstrates the colonists gained power because more slaves were sold and The colonists gained more profit. In the Colonial America the slaves were being carried to the New World. As Olaudah Equiano illustrates how the slaves were brought to the new world, “ These filled me with astonishment which was soon converted into terror ” (1, Equiano). He was scared and like he never experienced slavery in his life. This quote demonstrates that the colonists gained power because the slaves were afraid of them and if they were afraid of them they wouldn’t

I believe that African Americans were not free in all areas of society throughout Reconstruction. Although African Americans were technically free after the Civil War many laws past during the Reconstruction Area would make you think otherwise. The most obvious example being the Black Codes. According to TCI “The black codes served three purposes. The first was to limit the rights of freedmen. The second purpose of the black codes was to help planters find workers to replace their slaves. The third purpose of the black codes was to keep freedmen at the bottom of the social order in the South. The first purpose of these laws alone should show that African Americans were clearly not free in all areas of society.

“True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty.” ― Israelmore Ayivor (Chandler, 2007). This quote not only explains what the purpose of the reconstruction was, but also the means on how to succeed. Africans after The Reconstruction not only didn’t have rights, but living became worse than what it was. There became a competition between rich vs. poor, native-born vs. immigrants and workers vs. capitalist. Blacks never had an equal chance to live and work to provide for their families, and this caused social tension all around. The whites never wanted anyone to be superior to them, and they began to take harsh actions against blacks because they saw the potential

Antebellum America was the time period before the Civil War, so it was a constant battle between African Americans and Whites. Antebellum time period focus on the differences between people in the south and the north. People who wanted slavery to continue, because it was profitable and people who wanted it to end. More simply, whites in the south did not want slavery to end, because it was a business that allowed them to make money off of other people 's labor. While people in the north were more open to allow African Americans have more freedom. Namely, not trying to control African Americans with slavery, but allowing them to find work and become independent. Therefore, African Americans in the north and south, had similarities and differences, but both groups constantly fought for equality and freedom.

Some insist on the slavery based on the fact of “importation”. A scholar Tillinghast-Phillip interpreted that West African culture helps Negros survive from the exploitation and domestication because a discovery in West Africa of domestication had been adopted on their own population before. Those inhabited cities before leaving for America mostly are under Moslem influence developed with partly civilization, techniques and mature agriculture system—Dahomey, Ashanti, Yoruba, which overweighs Indians for the labor sector. Negros were implied hard working by the proverbs, aphorisms, and customs of the West African. The slaves were quick to take advantage and to work because of planters despaired of making diversification pay. They attribute the acre of

Over the years, the African American race has greatly evolved from having a lack of individual freedom to having their own sense of individuality. There have been many different events in America that has played some part in the evolution of the black race. After the Civil War, most of the races in America were seen to have separate freedom, but as the years progress African Americans were one of the many to stand up and obtain their individuality. In the process of obtaining individual freedom, there were many events that played important roles in this particular process. The African American race was seen to evolve during slavery, Civil Rights, and modern day. Each of these significant times, African Americans’ went from the struggle to becoming successful in the end.

Throughout history African Americans have had is bad in the United States. First they went through slavery which lasted about two hundred year and was ended around the Civil War which was in the 1860s-1870s. Next after they went through slavery they went through the law of Jim Crow that started after the Civil War which stated, “Separate but Equal”, and that was not the case because African Americans were still treated as second class citizens. After about ninety years around the 1960s Dr. Martin Luther King came on the scene with the civil rights and helped abolish the Jim Crow. Things were good for African Americans for about ten years or so, and then Nixon become president and started a war on drugs. This war was not meant for drugs, it was meant for African Americans. They felt the force that was brought on due to the war on drugs because it was a way to oppress the like in the past. And once again black people were second class citizens.

Imagine fighting for a great cause, a cause that would benefit many people. Help benefit the society in which we live in. That 's a chance many African Americans dreamed of having. They finally had their chance to prove themselves among the white people. Their opportunity was here, they were going to fight in the Civil War. African Americans fought for both the Confederates and the Union. The Confederates were the people in the southern part of the United States who believed they needed to keep slaves to benefit the economy. The Union were the people in the north part of the United States who believed in the abolishment of slavery. Some of these African Americans were former slaves, others were African Americans who wanted to abolish (or get rid of) slavery. Over 180,000 African Americans served in the Civil War. Many however, were not recognized after the war ended. At the time when the Civil War occurred there were over 4 million slaves in the south. The Union fought to unite the divided country and to free the slaves. The south fought for independence and to decide the future of the southern slavery. In this paper we will look at 2 amazing stories of troubles, sorrows, and triumphs of these brave soldiers.

Everyday, people wake up and take it for granted. Just the simple and small things in life, people don’t seem to really appreciate. They tend to be ungrateful for the things that have been basically given to them. Many people of today do not realize the severity of how hard it was to get to this point in history. African Americans have had to face very strenuous times in order to make this world a better place. African Americans faced difficult times during the civil rights era, some of those hardships were; segregation, voting rights, and assassination of prominent African American leaders. The role that African Americans played in the Civil War was in fact bigger than anyone could ever imagine. One of

Albeit Lincoln and Johnson made considerable concessions to the South during their terms, extremist Southern states like South Carolina kept gainsaying the outcome of the war by endeavoring to reinstitute Blacks into slave-like conditions through inequitable laws. Intransigent “Jim Crow” laws, Ebony Codes, and poll taxes sought to replicate the conditions of slavery for Blacks in the post-Civil War South by promoting discrimination and segregation. However, after the Radical Republicans took control of the Reconstruction, more rigorous “punishments” were inflicted on the Southern states to make them accept incipient laws bulwarking blacks. In many Southern states, military regimes were established until the states accepted the terms of re-ingression

In 1865, Civil War was finally over and 4 million slaves in the southern boarding states had seized their freedom. Life as they knew would no longer exist which encompassed working long hours, extreme harsh conditions, no pay, being bought and sold by plantation owners, nor receiving the unfulfilled promise of 40 acres and a mule. President Andrew Johnson’s lenient policy toward white supremacists led to massive murders as freed slaves denied voting rights in the south. Black codes created in part by white southerners with the intent to make sure former slaves were not considered a free man. By the same token African-American men without evidence became falsely accused of raping white women in the south and convicted without trial or jury. Conditions worsened for African-Americans in the

When the Civil War began, they wanted to take part in fighting to free all slaves. At the end of the civil war passed the civil rights act that gave citizenship to people that are born in the united states, years later African American men were given the right to vote. This might give equal rights but African Americans are still being discriminated.

Socially, politically, economically, African Americans were kept out of society. And they had to scratch and bite to get whatever advantages they could. African Americans were the main labor force; back then black children are forced to work rather than go to school. African Americans have for the most part lost whatever political situation they had had as a result of Reconstruction. And it was done very brutally and it was done very systematically. Another issue was in order to make sure that African Americans did not attempt to assert themselves in any way, whether it was voting, whether it was trying to buy land, the white South resorted to terrorism. And that terrorism which was a legacy that never stopped from the time of the Civil

The 1550s to the 1850s was a time of discovery, hardship and new opportunities. During this time, Europeans began to settle in the Americas. Europeans soon learned they couldn’t make a profit all by themselves in the “New World”, so they used slaves to help them. Africans were taken out of their normal lives, put on a ship where many died from starvation or beatings, and made to work for someone who they did not like. Slavery in the Atlantic World’s causes and effects were excellent and profitable for Europeans, but terrible for Africans.