Plessy During The Civil War

472 Words1 Page
bulb-icon

Recommended: Educational segregation essays

Even though the slaves were free it didn't mean that they got the same rights as whites when the Civil War was over. Firstly, they were not allowed to use the same bathrooms, and they were separated into whites bathrooms and colored bathrooms. Secondly, on trains and in cars they couldn't sit with or go in areas that whites could go into like the whites only area on the train. Thirdly, they built separate schools for the kids, one school for only whites and the other for colored. In conclusion, even though the slaves were free they still did not have all the rights that whites had. As stated in the first paragraph even though slaves were free they still did not have many rights as others. Plessy was a man that everyone thought was white, but

Show More
Related

  • White Man's Burden Summary

    1766 Words  | 4 Pages

    During this time period, “no English colony remained without laws dealing specifically with the governance of Negroes.” Specific pieces of legislation would be passed within the English colonies that were ultimately based on the if one was a slave or free. However, with these slave laws enacted, the laws “told the white man, not the Negro, what he must do. It was the white man who was required to punish.” Overall, it was the slave owner who had the responsibility to punish the slave. For the white slave owner, “absolute control became a major priority, and slaves were subject to severe discipline.” Since the African slave was a living tool for the slave owner, he or she was not deemed to be human, which meant that a series of inhumane punishments could be sanctioned upon the African slave. Moreover, these laws were enacted so that the white man would remain in control at all times, hence white over black. Due to the fact that the African slave was not deemed a human being by the white man, the laws and punishments that were passed were inhuman as well. For example, in the English colonies of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia, the enslaved African man could be punished by being castrated for sexual aggression. Moreover, was Sally Hemings the sexual aggressor or was Thomas Jefferson the sexual

    Read More

  • Ap World History Dbq Slavery

    1734 Words  | 4 Pages

    Slavery was demeaning to the victims. Slaves were declined the right to an education because reading brought visions, and visions led to dissatisfaction. Many states passed laws stating slaves didn't have a right to an education. At the beginning of the Civil War, perhaps 9/10 of the slaves were illiterate. Also, black slave’s marriages were rarely legally recognized, due to the ineluctable separation that would come at the slave auctions. Slaves didn't have the right to vote. Lastly, slaves didn't have the ability to testify in court. This is shown in a petition by Arthur Lee Freemen. Freemen begs the General Assembly of Virginia (audience) to let him stay in the same state with his wife and four children. He doesn't want to seek a new living in a new country away from his wife and kids. Freemen’s petition most likely was ignored by the General Assembly of Virginia, because slaves weren't able to testify in court. Virginia’s General assembly wanted to kick out Freemen because he was a free black, and free blacks were physical examples of what could be accomplished by emancipation and hence were begrudged and abominated by supporters of the slave system. Free blacks were still enchained to slavery because even after they established their lives, they were forced to move to other states due to slavery. The former slave owners still saw the free black as a slave,

    Read More

  • How Free Were Free Blacks in the North?

    735 Words  | 2 Pages

    ...olitical and judicial rights of free blacks, their social freedoms, opportunities for jobs and education, and religious freedom. Blacks who escaped enslavement, didn’t all go on to have perfect lives in the north. They still had to go through hardships and endure many burdens even though they were free. The reason it is important to learn about the life of free blacks in the north is that even though they were free, life wasn’t all that easy for them. This is important to learn because it clears up misconceptions that the north was a complete safe haven for slaves. They were free, but were not treated as equal beings and it was still hard for them. These things are important today because we see how much our country has changed. We need to know this because we can see how much we've changed for the better and use that as motivation to keep improving into the future.

    Read More

  • Slavery: Northern v. Southern

    665 Words  | 2 Pages

    Free blacks from the south were facing many situations from the whites from the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws were to prevent free blacks and other non-whites from being able to vote and have a voice within the government. Laws and statements were established such as the Grandfather Clause, which would prevent anyone whose grandfather could not vote from voting. Since the majority of blacks grandfathers did not vote and was not even free, free blacks in the south were denied the right to vote. Free blacks were now being denied any privilege that non slaves (whites) already had. Their "freedom" was only from slavery, now they realized that they were still a slave to the world. Also during this time blacks were being discriminated against and the lynchings of blacks were occurring. Blacks were becoming endangered and feared for their lives.

    Read More

  • Civil War Movies: Glory

    1152 Words  | 3 Pages

    ...ious slaves the right to citizenship, meaning they were able to do anything that a normal citizen could do, for example hold seats of power. The Fifteenth amendment ensured that they were given the right to vote. However, the reason that their accomplishments were in vain was because they did not get rid of racism. Whatever advancement they made was taken back due to whites still believing in racism. After the Reconstruction era, the South feared an African American with power so they formed hate groups and technicalities to get around amendments. Even though the Fourteenth amendment ensured that slaves were given the right to citizenship, the whole ideal of “separate but equal” came into play. With the Fifteenth amendment, the South was able to justify the racist action of enforcing a literacy clause or a grandfather clause by writing it into their constitution.

    Read More

  • Pros And Cons Of Abolitionist And Anti Slavery

    1012 Words  | 3 Pages

    Those opposed to slavery argued, “The fifth amendment’s due process clause forbade Congress from allowing slavery in the territories. They also held that Congress’s plenary power to regulate the territories authorized it to establish a ‘free soil” meaning no slavery. Still, most states forbid that blacks should know how to read and write, and if they did try, they had white men watching them and beating them if they tried to be taught. Those slaves that were free, got denied for citizenship.

    Read More

  • Civil War Dbq African Americans

    597 Words  | 2 Pages

    In the end, during the civil war countless slaves fought for their freedom by giving information and supplies to the Union Army. They also ran away to Union territory and served in the Union Army. Because of these efforts, slaves earned citizenship and equal rights. These acts also came with freedom and liberty to all African Americans. Altogether the slaves during the Civil War were able rise up and earn their

    Read More

  • The Pro-slavery Constitution

    612 Words  | 2 Pages

    It should be noted that the Declaration of Independence made it clear that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Although this progressive view was shared by many of the members of the Constitutional Convention, it is clear that the original text of the American Constitution is rather pro-slavery and up to a certain point protects the slave-owners. It is of utmost importance to note that the words slavery/slave are not used in the text of the Constitution.

    Read More

  • Free Blacks compared to Slaves

    653 Words  | 2 Pages

    Blacks in the south were not free. Southern blacks were forced to work all day for no pay. As soon as the sunrise the slaves had to work until sunset. Blacks in the south had no choice to take a day off or not.

    Read More

  • The American Civil War

    755 Words  | 2 Pages

    The Civil War determined what kind of nation the United States would become. It determined whether it would be a nation with equal rights for everyone or the biggest country that still abused of slaves. The war started because of the brutal conditions slaves were living in. Many had no education what so ever and were treated worse than animals. Back then part of this country found this acceptable and demanded to keep their slaves while the others demanded freedom. Today there are many movies about the civil war. For example the movie Glory which was made in December 15, 1989 it was directed by Edward Zwick. The movie depicts the lives of African American soldiers who had to endure tougher training than the American man, and American officials who had to make these men into real action fighting soldiers. The defining characters in this movie were. Major Cabot Forbes who was very tender towards the African American soldiers and he even stood up for them. Private Trip gave up his freedom in order to fight is true fighter. Corporal Thomas Searles who struggled a lot in the training camp but in the end pulled through. Glory is mainly about men with struggles that have to overcome their torments in order to end the Civil War. It took time and strength but the colored regiment became just as good as any white one. Corporal Thomas Searles, Major Cabot Forbes, and Private Trip all fought for what they believed in even at the time of their last breathes something they would have never done at the beginning of the movie.

    Read More

  • Slavery In Colonial America Essay

    791 Words  | 2 Pages

    Because the American slave system was based on this principle of human chattlehood, slaves were confined in many ways that handicapped them from even being able to act or live as a human being. The very idea of human chattelhood gave the master unlimited control over his defenseless slave. Chattels are not permitted to get married, acquire or hold property. Chattels cannot have rights and hence the slave has no rights. Chattels can be bought and sold and so justifies the existence of the slave trade. Chattels do not have any claim to legal protection, therefore the slave has none and must tolerate the cruelties of slavery. Chattels are not to be educated or instructed in religion. And lastly, chattels do not possess the freedom of speech and of the press.

    Read More

  • The American Civil War

    575 Words  | 2 Pages

    Following the American Civil War, the whole nation was forever changed and was the result of many good and bad things. Although it was a very costly war and was So, the Civil War did define us and made us the good and the bad things we are and led to an extremely significant change because slavery was abolished once and for all and African American rights followed many years later, the Federal Government imposed more power over the states, our country was divided for a while, and it left the nation in debt due to the fact that we fought each other.

    Read More

  • Racial Caste System: An Unending Struggle for Equality

    787 Words  | 2 Pages

    when the president had declared the free slavery, but not every single black was free from their master. That what President Lincoln try to do, but nothing happens. the only thing happened was war and so many people die. Alexander tells us about the civil war, she said “ civil war had to be won first, hundreds of thousands of lives lost, and then - only then we 're slaves across the South set free.” why they had to fight to get freedom When “ The contitvtiral amendments guaranteeing African American will have “equal protection of law” and have right to vote.” Did black people really got equal protection from law as white? Not at all black become less power and in the camps that was like worse than where they use to be

    Read More

  • The American Civil War

    1805 Words  | 4 Pages

    The Civil War has been viewed as the unavoidable eruption of a conflict that had been simmering for decades between the industrial North and the agricultural South. Roark et al. (p. 507) speak of the two regions’ respective “labor systems,” which in the eyes of both contemporaries were the most salient evidence of two irreconcilable worldviews. Yet the economies of the two regions were complementary to some extent, in terms of the exchange of goods and capital; the Civil War did not arise because of economic competition between the North and South over markets, for instance. The collision course that led to the Civil War did not have its basis in pure economics as much as in the perceptions of Northerners and Southerners of the economies of the respective regions in political and social terms. The first lens for this was what I call the nation’s ‘charter’—the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the documents spelling out the nation’s core ideology. Despite their inconsistencies, they provided a standard against which the treatment and experience of any or all groups of people residing within the United States could be evaluated (Native Americans, however, did not count). Secondly, these documents had installed a form of government that to a significant degree promised representation of each individual citizen. It was understood that this only possible through aggregation, and so population would be a major source of political power in the United States. This is where economics intersected with politics: the economic system of the North encouraged (albeit for the purposes of exploitation) immigration, whereas that of the South did not. Another layer of the influence of economics in politics was that the prosperity of ...

    Read More

  • African American Slavery In Narnia

    198 Words  | 1 Pages

    “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves” You should respect people the way you want to be respected. Even if they are African Americans. Slavery in US American History was slavery with African Americans. They were enslaved.

    Read More

More about Plessy During The Civil War

Open Document