Rip's Emancipation Of America

In an English interpretation, one could see Rip Van Winkle as the mother country or England. Rip is “a kind neighbor, and an obedient hen-pecked husband .” (430) To an English citizen reading this story, it could easily represent the English monarchy. For years before the

He ‘s a lazy and obedient hen-pecked husband. “In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody’s business but his own; but as to doing family duty, keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible.” His idleness to his responsibility can be seen as American’s unwillingness to be a servant of England. “There is phlegm and drowsy tranquility” around the town before the revolution war. However, after Rip awakes from his sleep for twenty years, everything in the town has changed. “There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility.” Also, the sign outside the tavern where he spent much of his time has changed from King George to General Washington. After seeing all of these changes, at first Rip doubts his own identity, especially when he sees his son who is” a precise counterpart of himself.” However, before long, “he resumes his old walks and habits,” because he doesn’t compelled to change himself into a post Revolutionary American. Since it never happens as an event in his life, it makes no drastic change in Rip’s life. Because he has no indent to fit in the new society to be who he has to be at the new age, he tries to retreat or stay in the past which is what the Americans need to lead their cultural life.

\The Emancipation Proclamation was created by Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves, but then what? Historian: Eric Foner’s The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery , Richard Striner’s Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle To End Slavery , James Oakes essay Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, James M. McPherson, Henry Louis Gates’s Lincoln on Race & Slavery, Lerone Bennett Jr. Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream,

From Guezlo’s introduction of “Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The end of Slavery in America”, he acknowledged that this is one of the representative of President Lincoln’s writings in the history demonstrating his dedication to free “four million black slaves”. At the end of Guezlo’s introduction, he proposed the idea of how Lincoln would be a white friend to African American due to the power, the position he had that can help him to start deliverance. The author stated, “It would be special pleading to claim that Lincoln was in the end the most perfect friend black Americans have ever had. But it would also be the cheapest and most ignorant of skepticisms to deny that he was the most significant” (359). The president was described as a manumitter who broadens the destinies for the Negroes. Moreover, this is also an opportunity to solve the happening concerns between masters, slaves, and many others involving folks. Additionally, in Guezlo’s pieces of evidence, he suggested that there was always the thought of releasing African American slaves in Lincoln’s mind even from the day when he first had the presidential oath. The president implied the “hatred” he had on slavery, of how it might affect the world, “I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself …” (354). Lincoln insisted that having slavery is equal to the violation of the Declaration of Independence as well as the belief of the Republicans of how this issue would influence the whole society.

After the Union won the Civil War African American slaves were freed but different Problems a rise during the reconstruction period. The Emancipation Proclamation written by Abraham Lincoln would give the win to the United states which would result in a revolt by the Confederacy. States that were once a part of the confederacy should terminate the idea of slavery and pledge to tie up all the money owed to the North. Without doubt first codes were issued in the state of Mississippi and South Carolina stating the African Americans should have a record showing that they engage in a job and they would have to pay taxes if they did not work

In Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” there is many occurrences of change in Rip’s economy and government whilst he is asleep for twenty years. He goes out one day to go hunting and runs into Henry Hudson’s crew. He drinks with them and then falls into a deep sleep. When Rip awakens he returns to his old Dutch village to find that nothing is the same. Facing the fact of his wife’s death, he must also deal with many drastic changes around him.

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln. This document stated that all of the enslaved people within the rebellious states are forever free. President Lincoln’s view towards the United States Constitution was that it protected slavery within the states it previously existed. Thus, Lincoln did not declare the document at the time because he understood that the northern states would not fight for slavery liberation. Later in 1862, slaves started to join the northern army. President Lincoln perceived this this as a sign of nullification and he could now continue on with the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln’s Secretary of State was William H. Seward, he advised that they waited to issue the Proclamation until they

On January 1, 1863, sitting President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a document decreeing the end of slavery throughout the United States of America. While symbolic at the time (the self-proclaimed and effectively sovereign Confederate States of America had no intention of recognizing a law issued by a political body with which it was currently at war, and whose authority it did not recognize) it was undebatably a momentous and powerful decision that would forever change the fabric of the American social and political paradigm. Insofar as it symbolically freed the African-American population from slavery, the document did little to improve the plight of the more than four million members of said population formerly held in bondage in the Southern United States in the times following the war. In fact, the end of legal slavery in these areas only led to continued and unofficial de facto bondage, sanctioned and enforced by local governments. In this way, it can be inferred that the plight of the African Americans in the South continued to in one form or another be more or less the same in the half-century following emancipation.

“The beginning of the Civil War marked the beginning of the end of slavery in the American South” (Berlin, 3). The Civil War started from opposing states’ opinions; the South thrived on slavery’s economic impact while the North opposed the institution. The issue of slavery divided the nation, and the contrasting views of the anti-abolitionists and abolitionists caused the war to occur. Slavery’s impact in the United States started in the 1600’s, and the large influence made the process of ending the enslavement of blacks more difficult. The Emancipation Proclamation served as an important government document, containing controversial ideas about abolishing slavery. Lincoln issued the

Irving describes the sights Rip is seeing for the first time, “the very village was altered; it was larger and more populous” not only that but, “he found his beard had grown a foot long” (6). When Rip arrives to the town the only thing he is worried about is finding his wife and receiving the fire he knows his wife will spit at him. Rip arrives in the town shocked when he finds the image of King George III replaced by George Washington. As Rip continues through the town he becomes confused and unable to understand that there is an election currently going on. When he is questioned by townspeople as to “which side he voted?” (7). Rip says, “ ‘I am a poor quiet man, a native of the place, and a loyal subject of the king, God bless him!” (7). Rip is hearing the townspeople talk so freely of elections and politics, it’s all very new, and it represents the freedom of speech these citizens now have and the responsibility of the new democracy. A main struggle of the story was one of identity, especially at this time in history. The citizens of America, twenty years after Rip Van Winkle finally awoke, found their identity. Rip, who was having difficulty finding himself throughout the story, finally finds his identity when his own identity after he is told about his wife’s passing and being

After the American Revolution, numerous amounts of slaves were freed and began to express their indignation towards slavery and racial discrimination. Abolitionists believed that slavery was immoral and illegal and supported these ideas with the two most important laws at that time, the Bible and the Constitution. Although the ideals between abolitionists were similar, their means of bringing slavery to an end were completely different. The late 1830’s brought the distinction of tactics between radical and conservative abolitionists. Conservatives strove for a gradual abolition of slavery while radicals advocated the immediate emancipation. While both radicals and conservatives fought for the abolition, radicals such as David Walker enforced the use violence if necessary, while conservatives such as Frederick Douglass turned to politics as a weapon against slavery. As a result, Walker’s Appeal was more effective towards the abolition movement than Douglass was due to its strong, radical, and revolutionary tone that caused the abolition movement to take a more radical direction.

When it comes to Abraham Lincoln people will accept anything as factual, which is why all the myths of Lincoln have actually dominated history for so long. Many believe that the Emancipation Proclamation is solely about honest Abe being a just man and freeing all the slaves with his executive power as sitting president. Lincoln himself stated that it was actually a war tactic strategically planned to cripple the south. If Lincoln’s 1863 article is so dedicated to the freeing of slaves then why were union states like Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and West Virginia allowed to still participate in keeping their slaves? “And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free.” which is an excerpt from the Emancipation Proclamation itself which shows that a lot of people don’t read it well enough to notice that the slaves were an actual afterthought. Maybe it’s because they are so caught up in the notation that Lincoln was about slave’s equality and nothing more.

Instead of old newspapers, men were talking about citizen’s rights and elections. Instead of idle speeches, Rip found a man “….haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens – elections – members of congress – liberty – Bunker’s Hill – heroes of seventy-six-and other words, which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle” (52). Although initially bewildered by the new changes, Rip enjoys the peace in his new freedom and eventually goes to live with his daughter in her nice home, and finds happiness and respect. He “took his place once more on the bench at the inn door, and was reverenced as one of the patriarchs of the village, and a chronicle of the old times ‘before the war’” (56).

In the beginning of Rip Van Winkle, Rip is portrayed as lazy husband who would do anything for others except his own husbandly duties. Rip Van Winkle’s wife, Dame Winkle, who is nothing like her husband goes around doing her wifely duties, as a wife and mother, regardless whether her husband Rip meets her needs. Despite been such a likeable person to his friends and neighbors, Winkle makes his wife’s life complicated. Dame Van Winkle is the typical wife that takes care of the obligations she has at home while Rip refuses to be productive around the house. The story emphasis’s how relentlessly Dame nags Rip. However if Rip had assumed his share of household responsibilities perhaps Rip might not have felt an impact. Dame’s life is further complicated by the absence of 20 years of her husband. When Rip returns Dame is dead and he is taken in by his daughter who replaces the maternal role that his wife (dame) had

Firs is an eighty seven year old servant at Madame Ranevsky’s estate. Although he is old, but he is the only character in the play that shows the positive and happy life in the past in the cherry orchard estate. In act I Firs comments that now that he has finally seen his boss again he is ready to rest in peace (p. 6), this being a foreshadow that at the end of the play he will actually die. In act II, Firs comments on life was better before the serfs were freed, and that even after he, being a slave, was freed, he stayed and worked on the estate for Madame Ranevsky (p. 22-23). This comment by Firs is a representation of how the older generation views the emancipation manifesto and doesn’t adapt and accept the change, wishing that things stayed the same. Firs said, “And when the Liberation came I