Bernard Baruch was an adviser to presidents from World War I to World War II and became a confidant of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is because of him that the Mrs. Simon Baruch University Award bi-annually by the General Organization of the United Daughters of the Confederacy became endowed. This award is presented to the author of a previously unpublished monograph or full-length book manuscript dealing with Confederate history, including the ante-bellum period, the causes that led to secession and the War Between the States. The award is presented in even-numbered years and consists of a $500 author’s award and a $2000 publication award. It is considered as a grant-in-aid for the purpose of encouraging research in Southern
Worse than Slavery, by David Oshinsky, is a novel about post-Civil War America, and the life it gave free African Americans in Mississippi and other parts of the South. Oshinsky writes about the strict laws and corrupt criminal justice system blacks faced after they were freed, and while the contents of the book are not typically read about in history textbooks, it is important to understand what life was like for the freedman. Anyone interested in reading his book would profit from it. With the end of the Civil War came the destruction of the old system of slavery. Many white Southerner’s were outraged, but were forced to accept the newly freed blacks.
The Civil War was one of America’s most trying and troubling times. Following the Civil War was Reconstruction, which posed an important question that would affect the country forever, “What do we do with the South?” During Reconstruction, the Government was faced with a plethora of difficult questions to answer and a series of difficult situations, but the topic at hand was the same reason the Civil War started in the first place: African Americans. The statement “After the Civil War, the only way to truly enfranchise former slaves was by effectively disenfranchising their former masters” is true because white Southerners would constantly and consistently attempt to undermine African Americans. There were many ways that white Southerners used to belittle African Americans; the creation of Black Codes were one of these ways.
The living legacy of the United States Civil War is a complicated time in American history one finds difficult to describe. The ramification of the war prior, during and after still haunt the current citizens who call The States their home. Tony Horwitz’s book Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War looks at the wide gap of discontent that still looms in the late 1990s. For some southerners, the Confederacy still lives on through reenactments, stories and beliefs. For others in the South, reminders the land was dedicated to the Confederacy spark hatred and spite.
Everywhere the war was discussed, fought, analyzed, re-analyzed, cheered and damned, the enslaved were there or thereabout. As Ward makes clear, like the institution that imprisoned them, the enslaved were an integral part of life in the South, an inextricable component of all the southern institutions—public and private. Intimately linked to the soldiers, sailors, and politicians of all ranks, the enslaved were a constant presence, witnessing much of everything that was said or read aloud. And, once fed into the infamous “slave grapevine,” the black community learned about the discussions taking place in the “Big House,” in the corridors of power, and around military campfires. Never the mere objects about which two mighty, white armies fought, seen through the eyes of the bondmen and women, the Civil War becomes in some ways a different war.
It is a Friday afternoon, I see sitting down at a table outside a café in London, Mrs. Mary Prince in a long blue dress. I join her for a cup of tea and a discussion about her book The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself. I had a long list of questions I wished to ask her, but so as to not waste her valuable time, I kept our discussion short. The excerpt of her story talks about how all of the slaves wanted freedom, going against the popular belief that slaves were happy being slaves and did not want to be free. Slaves had a very rough life.
Even after the war, blacks could still feel the lingering shadows of slavery outside their doors. Many examples of the internal turmoil can be seen in the cultural products of the day. Pieces like “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” humanized slaves in the eyes of many. One
From this, derives a bond with the reader that pushes their understanding of the evil nature of slavery that society deemed appropriate therefore enhancing their understanding of history. While only glossed over in most classroom settings of the twenty-first century, students often neglect the sad but true reality that the backbone of slavery, was the dehumanization of an entire race of people. To create a group of individuals known for their extreme oppression derived from slavery, required plantation owner’s of the South to constantly embedded certain values into the lives of their slaves. To talk back means to be whipped.
Reading this memoir helps people have a better understanding of how unjustly the slaves were treated. However, just because slavery isn’t as transparent as it once was before doesn’t mean it isn’t there anymore. In today society, slavery has been still continuing, such as young people are being trafficked all around the world. Learning about the history is crucial because it shouldn’t be repeated. There are many people that have lost their lives and are forever gone without their story being told.
It was a point for Lester to express that the book is expressing human’s lives with the condition of slavery. The book itself stayed true to the history of slavery during the time period spanning over two hundred years, and encouraged the readers, including
begins “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.”
In this book he was quick to shatter the myth that slavery ended in 1865. He told the untold that slavery still existed through sharecropping, convict lease systems, peonage and other labor systems that have been put in place to cover up an historical truth. That slavery existed past its time and laws have been put in place to cover them up. Most people wouldn’t comment on the matter even after reading Walters work. Until, recently Gregory Freeman one of a few scholars who spoke on the issues of peonage in the introduction to Lay This Burden Down.
Utilizing “Beloved” by Toni Morrison, “The Ghosts of Slavery” by Linda Krumholz, and “Raising Freedom’s Child”
Who is the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit has been a part of our lives from the very beginning. It is because of the Holy Spirit that we are able to communicate with God. The Holy Spirit is the reason that we are able to hear from God, know right from wrong, and so much more.
I’m familiar with the term Synoptic Gospel. The Synoptic Gospels includes similar stories found in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. They stand in difference to John, his content is somewhat distinctive. Each Gospel is written to different audiences, but the subject matter are the same and treated in similar ways. Synoptic in the Greek, which means presenting or taking the same point of view .
