Abraham Lincoln Dialectical Journal

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1860 The year Abraham Lincoln was elected, I remember spending a grueling hard-working day in what seemed like endless fields, my body was aching and sore to the touch from the day's work of tending to my job as a cotton picker. I was lost in thought when an eager voice that belonged to my friend John grabbed my attention immediately, “Jacob, have you heard the news?” I say, “No, what are you on about boy..” He explained to me that a new president was to be elected soon. He had overheard the master speaking of it when he returned home from a long drive into town for supplies. We always become hopeful hearing news like this. Something about change coming always makes us think of the changes the new person could make. I am a slave …show more content…

Smith has become more on edge since slaves have been fleeing each night. He lashes out on his wife in waves of overwhelming anger, he wants to bring a complete halt to the fleeing of slaves. I must be careful or this could end disastrously for me. He has told the remainder of us left what would happen to us if we were caught trying to escape, but I have faith in myself to make it. The thought repeating inside my brain day after day of being free is something I have dreamed of for numerous years now. The hope I have had for things to turn around for us has only grown since President Abraham Lincoln was …show more content…

General Grant was a strong leader, we fought well, and now we are going to have to adapt to the new come freedoms we have gained with the victory of the North. The problem of still not being accepted by some has been occurring. A group known as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) has been going around lynching innocent people, they believe abolishing slavery was the wrong choice and they wanted to restore the union to the way it was. This has made transitioning harder for newly freed slaves and it personally makes me feel uneasy that I could be killed simply for the color of my

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