Introduction
Gary B. Nash authored this book, Race and Revolution, to inform people the other side of the story of slavery. Slavery was just not the problem of the African Americans, but also with the whites. He beautifully organized this book with two parts: one section with three chapters and the second section with documents. The first three chapter discussed the different racial problems that revolved around the beginnings and middle events of slavery. Their titles include: Revolutionary Generation Embraces Abolitionism, The Failure of Abolitionism, and Black Americans in a White Republic. As you can see, the topic is surrounded by the matter of abolitionism of slavery. The documents hold different writings that people wrote around the …show more content…
Antebellum abolitionism is the era before the civil war and after the war of 1812. This sets up the time period in which the author will be speaking of. It also introduces the reader the steps in what the states had to take before initializing the abolition of slavery. During this period, the North wants to abolish slavery everywhere in America. The only difficulty is that they do not want anything with the effort that has to do with this act. They think that since the South has the majority of the slaves and they should handle the problem by giving the slaves their natural rights as citizens of America. This goes downhill because the deep south still has not accepted to be a part of the union. This frightens the north because the south then can become their own nation and create a war of races between the two.
Since this was a troubling issue for the north, they discussed between themselves what would be the best action to take: abolish slavery totally or a gradual removal of slavery over time. This discussion arose with Massachusetts’ state constitution, which states, “all men are born free and equal.” Transporting and possessing slaves goes against this. In return, the states in the north made their decision of the options stated …show more content…
It gave me an insight of what the whites’ and blacks’ roles in the abolitionism to slavery. I thought that originally, the whites had all to do with this act. Nothing with the blacks. I was totally wrong in that the blacks actually created leaderships and petitions to fight for what is right. It also showed me how badly they were treated in an even more extreme extent than what I knew before I read this book. This involved the statistical number of deaths that happened during the whole process of the slave trade and the life on the plantations. One of my favorite things that I did not mention in the body is that the slave issue did not end because no one wanted it to. They did not see it as wrong when they started off. In return, it continued with the slave trade and the circulation of slaves in the states. Lastly, my favorite quote of the whole piece
Gary B. Nash authored this book, Race and Revolution, to inform people the other side of the story of slavery. Slavery was just not the problem of the African Americans, but also with the whites. He beautifully organized this book with two parts: one section with three chapters and the second section with documents. The first three chapter discussed the different racial problems that revolved around the beginnings and middle events of slavery. Their titles include: Revolutionary Generation Embraces Abolitionism, The Failure of Abolitionism, and Black Americans in a White Republic. As you can see, the topic is surrounded by the matter of abolitionism of slavery. The documents hold different writings that people wrote around the …show more content…
Antebellum abolitionism is the era before the civil war and after the war of 1812. This sets up the time period in which the author will be speaking of. It also introduces the reader the steps in what the states had to take before initializing the abolition of slavery. During this period, the North wants to abolish slavery everywhere in America. The only difficulty is that they do not want anything with the effort that has to do with this act. They think that since the South has the majority of the slaves and they should handle the problem by giving the slaves their natural rights as citizens of America. This goes downhill because the deep south still has not accepted to be a part of the union. This frightens the north because the south then can become their own nation and create a war of races between the two.
Since this was a troubling issue for the north, they discussed between themselves what would be the best action to take: abolish slavery totally or a gradual removal of slavery over time. This discussion arose with Massachusetts’ state constitution, which states, “all men are born free and equal.” Transporting and possessing slaves goes against this. In return, the states in the north made their decision of the options stated …show more content…
It gave me an insight of what the whites’ and blacks’ roles in the abolitionism to slavery. I thought that originally, the whites had all to do with this act. Nothing with the blacks. I was totally wrong in that the blacks actually created leaderships and petitions to fight for what is right. It also showed me how badly they were treated in an even more extreme extent than what I knew before I read this book. This involved the statistical number of deaths that happened during the whole process of the slave trade and the life on the plantations. One of my favorite things that I did not mention in the body is that the slave issue did not end because no one wanted it to. They did not see it as wrong when they started off. In return, it continued with the slave trade and the circulation of slaves in the states. Lastly, my favorite quote of the whole piece