Slavery: Northern v. Southern

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Northern Wage Slavery vs. Slavery During the 1980's southern blacks from the United States dedicated to migrate to the north with the belief that the north had more opportunities and advantages blacks. Although, Frederick Douglas and Booker T. Washington opposed a migration to the north, millions of blacks migrated northward. The industries for the blacks migrating t o the north was what Douglas and Washington feared, black northern workers being placed in the same situation prior to their movement. Blacks were going to experience the same obstacles and disadvantages as they had in the south just with different situations. Northern blacks were going to experience prejudice, riots and murdering. 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. By 1890's the south was so crazed by all of its prejudice and hate toward blacks that many advocates decided that blacks could possibly succeed in the south. Industrial wo... ... middle of paper ... ... same plantation and being among your peers everyday. At the plantation you grow to have closeness and look out for one another. William J. Grayson's comparison "how small the choice from, cradle to the grave," makes the assumption that blacks had no choice in whatever they did. If they turn to the north there is their a slave to the society and if they stay in the south they are slave. In the north they are a slave to society, because blacks are being forced to be confided to "their" community and are not permitted to go into the "white" world. In the north they are a slave because of the ownership the master has over them. Blacks either going north or staying in the south could be consider a slave to something. Slavery has not vanish simply because the location has changed. Slavery becomes a ongoing situation that does begin to improve until later on

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