Before the civil war between North and South America, slavery was legal and encouraged. The president of 1860, Abraham Lincoln, became aware of the problem and worked hard to make slavery illegal. Lincoln then realized that the South had not given up slavery like the North. Lincoln wanted to be a united union and immediately called the South out. The South accidentally thought the North wanted their oil and fought back. This ultimately progressed into a civil war. This war changed America. The war was for what America stands for. Freedom. America proved it was strong by separating from England and the British nation. Then again in the war between the Americans of the West and the natives. Americans have proved that it is strong. This war was between one of its own. Even though it was hard they had to fight for the abolishment of slavery. One story that I read called Gettysburg Address showed Lincoln on a battle field where many men who have died have been buried and he said "These dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people, for the …show more content…
The story shows a young slave doing chores and bribing poor white children to teach him to learn to read. As he gets older he better understands his predicament. He realized that his people were taken from their home and brought here as not servants, but as slaves to the white man. In the text it states "It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out. In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity." He says that he released that he was a caged creature. He then views his freedom as a must have was before he didn't know how badly he was