Compare And Contrast Lincoln And Douglass

Loc Truong CIN: 306620449
HIST 2010-10 Spring 2018
Take-Home Final Exam
5/17/2018
Short essay:
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas both were self-trained lawyers and candidate for U.S president in 19th century. While Lincoln represented for Republican, Douglas served for Democratic Party. Therefore, their views on slavery were kind of different, unlike Lincoln wanted to remove slavery totally in the new territories, Douglas said it should be left for decision of each territory. “To Lincoln, freedom meant opposition to slavery. Douglas insisted that the essence of freedom lay in local self-government.” (Voice of freedom, 272) At the debate, Douglas stated that making African American be equal to White American is a wrong thing, “I am opposed

Everything has good and bad sides, same goes to the reconstruction, even the reconstruction caused many problems during that time, it was successful for the country later on and until today. The first and undeniable success was the reunification of the Union after four years separation. Also, the reconstruction pushed the economy of the South, crops and good productions from the South were finally able to sell to Northern and foreign countries. Followed by these successful was the advent of 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments which protected each and every citizen of the U.S, including African American, the marked point of these Amendments is the 14th Amendment which gives citizenship to anyone who born in the U.S, no matter if they are black, white or any other colored. Due to Frederick Douglass on Black Soldiers, during the Civil War, with the high demand for soldier to serve for the War, it forced the Union to allow blacks soldier. “Better even die free, than to live slaves. This is the sentiment of every brave colored man among us.”(Voice of freedom, 293) As black be soldiers, they got the same treatment as white soldier, as well as a chance to have question of postwar black citizenship on the nation’s agenda, which became true as the existence of the 14th Amendment. While the army gave blacks men opportunity to get into the U.S officially, Women in general and African Women in

Let’s start with the Sharecropping labor contract, in the bright sides, it stated that it was the opportunity for African Americans finally had the rights and freedom to work for themselves, and also, be protected by the laws. As the law put out several regulations to govern the contracts which included the supply of goods, foods, quarter and medical for the sharecropper, the reality was not exact as it described in the laws. The sharecropping contract, or in other words, a legal form of slavery that rich white who owned lands used to keep black working for them. Far away from the original intention which provides land for freedman blacks to farms for their own goods, white landowners used that to keep advantage of the slavery which were taken away from them. “We further bind ourselves to and with said Ross that we will do work and labor ten hours a day on an average, winter and summer. We further agree that we will lose all lost time… We further bind ourselves that we will obey the orders of said Ross in all things in carrying out and managing said crop for said year and be docked for disobedience.” (Voice of freedom, 316) Even worse, the landowners rarely took responsibility for the health and welfare of the sharecropper. African Americans were treated just slightly better than what