Today we are going to be discussing liberation and African Americans in the Civil War. I will be listing a number of questions that we will explore in the physical classroom and the online class community. Some questions may require additional research.
Questions:
- When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln’s primary objective?
- What were the initial reactions to Black Men volunteering to fight in the Civil War? Why is this rejection important? Is it a type of affirmation? Is it déjà vu? Explain.
- Explore the notion of claiming slaves during the Civil War as contraband. What are you considerations about ‘contraband’ status of slaves? Positive or negative?
- What is the relationship between colonization and emancipation? Explain in 2 or 3 sentences.
- What were the limits to Emancipation Proclamation?
- Review The Steps to Emancipation on page 276.
- What were the steps associated with Black men fighting for the Union Armies?
- Who is Elizabeth Keckley? What were the ironies or hypocrisies associated with her story?
- Research and compile a list that contains each of the African American regiments associated with Civil War.
- What were some of the acts of discrimination, including acts of abuse and murder, that the Black soldiers experienced in the Civil War?
- *What is the history of the Union Armies and Irish immigrants that came to the US during the war years?
- Research Harriet Tubman’s role as a liberator, spy, and guide? Who were some other liberators, spies, and guides mentioned?
- List all the ways Black people continued to contribute to the sustainability of Southern culture. 289-292.
- How many Blacks soldiers fought for the Union cause?
- Interpret Lincoln’s statement, “ And then there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation; while, I fear, there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, with malignant heart, and deceitful speech, they have strove to hinder it. “
14. 179,000 black soldiers fought for the Union. 10% of the entire union army. 40,000 died over the course of the war.
ReplyDeleteLincoln's primary objective when the civil war began was preserving the union. Originally Lincoln said that if he could do this without freeing any slaves he would do it. He later said that if he could preserve the union by freeing the slaves he would do that instead. Lincoln states that he had taken an oath "registered in heaven" to preserve the union, and that was his main focus.
ReplyDelete3) I think that claiming slaves as contraband is a negative thing. Contraband can be defined as illegal or banned goods. Calling the African slaves contraband objectifies them as things rather than human beings.
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ReplyDelete5. The Emancipation proclamation only would only free the slaves in the confederate states. Slaves that were in the union weren't free until the 13th amendment was put into place. Free slaves were still subject to being treated like slaves as well by slave masters.
ReplyDelete5. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the rebellious states, and exempted those parts of the Confederacy which were already under Union control. but because he had no power to regulate how former "masters" would treat former "possessions" unless the Union won the war,the proclamation would be worthless.
ReplyDelete2. The peoples initial reaction to black men fighting in the civil war was that there was no place for them in the war and that the war was the "white mans fight". Fredrick Douglass said that he didn't think that black men should fight in the war or that the war should happen at all. He felt that the war was the United States rejecting the negro. I think this kind of rejection was important because it showed that although people didn't want blacks to have the opportunity of join the war, just as any other citizen could, that they were going to and help their country,.
ReplyDelete7. The Civil War was first perceived as "the white man's war," so the army was very hesitant of having African Americans fight in the war. When African Americans were let in the war they were paid less than the white soldiers and their supply weren't on the efficiency level of the white soldier.
ReplyDelete10) There were approximately 180,000 black soldiers that fought in the civil war. Racial discrimination was prevalent even in the North, and discriminatory practices permeated the U.S. military. Segregated units were formed with black enlisted men and typically commanded by white officers and black noncommissioned officers. Many of the African American soldiers that fought for the Union were threatened if captured by the Confederate Army. They were also treated much harsher than the white captives.
ReplyDeleteHi, Emmanuel. Thank you for your comment. When we return to class on Thursday, can you share this information with the class?
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Delete#8-Callee Nunn Garner
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Keckley- a former slave (seamstress, civil rights activists, and author in Washington, DC). She was a confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. She was very connected to the First Family (especially the First Lady). After the Civil War she wrote and published an autobiography. This was controversial because she exposed private details about the First Family.
Irony- She had a friendship with the First Lady, yet was still a slave within the household for a few years. The same household that was fighting for the Emancipation Proclamation (despair and heartache was still in Washington, DC). But, her experiences in the First Family household allowed her to later give an account of what all it entailed.
10. Segregated units were formed with black enlisted men and typically commanded by white officers and black noncommissioned officers. Black soldiers were initially paid $10 per month from which $3 was automatically deducted for clothing, resulting in a net pay of $7. In contrast, white soldiers received $13 per month from which no clothing allowance was drawn.
ReplyDeleteThe black troops, however, faced greater peril than white troops when captured by the Confederate Army. Black captives were typically treated more harshly than white captives. In perhaps the most heinous known example of abuse, Confederate soldiers shot to death black Union soldiers captured. African-American troops were mistreated, (there mortality rate (25%) was 35% higher than Caucasians) and did not enter the war until eighteen months after the fighting began.
4. Colonization is the act of resettling a colony in a place other than its original origin. and Emancipation is the process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
ReplyDelete9. The list of some of the African-American Regiments associated in the civil war:
ReplyDelete- 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
- 1st South Carolina Volunteers
- 2nd Regiment South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
- United States Colored Troops
- 5th Massachusetts (Colored) Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
- 55th Massachusetts (Colored) Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 29th Connecticut (Colored) Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- Corps d'Afrique
4. Civil war: It seems the relationship between emancipation and colonization are a cause and effect type of thing. Almost everything I read says Emancipation came first and Colonization came second. When Lincoln address the movement of colonization, he made it a point to say the reason he wanted to relocate the emancipated free black men because he noticed they weren't getting the "freedom of equality". His whole plan was to relocate the free black men so they could "enjoy the freedom and amenities the white men had", and some people questioned Lincoln and this idea. His main fear was that those free men's freedom would be risked at the hand of their former masters if they stayed in america. Overall slavery and the controversy of those men being free "caused the war".
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