Pros And Cons Of Allensworth Essay

Imagine being born in the 1840s while slavery was happening around America. While we are imagining this also imagine that you are the black child born into this slavery and having to go through the beating and mistreatment while growing up. Later in life as an African American you must go through segregation, Jim crow laws, fugitive slave act, the civil war, the 14th and 15th amendment and lastly the black codes. Now no one wants to ever go through this as child or as an adult, but there was a person that did and his name was Allen Allensworth. Through his struggle as a young child and later as an adult he would later find a town or better known as a community that African Americans could live in peacefully.
Allen Allensworth was born in …show more content…
But there was also the Civil rights act put in place during the reconstruction which was put in place to protect the rights of the African American people. With the many negatives that Allensworth and many other African Americans had to go through during this time there was still positives and some other positives that also came out of this time would also be a lot of people who supported African Americans and also there was blacks being put in higher positions. For example, Benjamin Butler, notorious Union General in the Civil War and advocate of rights for African Americans was elected to Congress as a radical member of the Republican party. There was also a former slave named Oscar J. Dunn who was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana. Also in 1870 Hiram Revels was elected to U. S. Senate as the first black senator. Now even though African Americans were being able to get in to the U.S. Senate, the congress, or any type of government, and even though there were people in America who was supporting African Americans with getting their rights and making their life better there still was some hostility that African Americans had to go through after the reconstruction …show more content…
Also during this time, he also lectures in Boston. While leaving where he was at he met people from the American Baptist publication society in Philadelphia. The people he met soon appointed him to Sunday school missionary for the state of Kentucky. For the colored people their churches appointed Allensworth to State Sunday school superintendent. Allensworth has been appointed to many leadership positions and has had given many speeches during this time, and with him doing this he soon wanted to become involved in politics. But before building his own town he became a Chaplin within the US