...trouble in the deliverance of peace to all involved and the rebuilding of the south were the disagreements about how the reconstruction of the south should be handled between both the Republican and Democrat parties, there was also the belief that white supremacy should be put above all else in the white Southerner’s minds, and last but not lease was the violence that the newly freedmen and women faced as they tried to take advantage of the new rights that they had been given. The ‘New South’ was new in some ways but still the same old south in many ways. The president, Andrew Johnson, was an impediment to how the south was to be rebuilt. He was a Southern gentleman and was devoutly against the black man having any rights since according to him they would “relapse into barbarism” (p.8). They didn’t know how to govern themselves and wouldn’t know where to start. He refused to offer any support to the newly freed African Americans while they tried to avail themselves of their right to vote. It was fear and pride and the white supremacy that kept Andrew Johnson from enforcing the Klan Act that was passed. The ideas of how the reconstruction was to be carried out was so different between the Democratic president and the ‘Radical Reconstruction’ the Republicans wanted. The president wanted the blacks to suffer for thinking that they could be equal to the white man and so made it difficult for them to be able to avail themselves of their newly...
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...how some places can be different from others. Twains Novel Huck finn displays the South negatively though discrimination, loss of innocence and religion. The book Huck Finn by Mark twain sows an an exceptional amount of discrimination, while also displaying other negitive subjects. Discrimination in the book leads to different times thoughout the book such as the moment when Jim was talking about his freedom and children. Sadly the southern states did not agree with the freedom of slaves or African amaricans. “Then jum started talking about how he would buy his wife and then buy his children!” (Twain 66). This part within the book shows how Twain understands how different skin color depicted here you and your family would be treated and taught in the south. While also some types of skin had there own social class. While Huck finn was in the middle of the family feud, Huck had to make an escape but first he had to alert his friend Jim, but the other “slaves” had to tell Jim for huck first.”I wasn’t gonn shove off till jack comes and tells me he certen you’s ded”(twain 88).This plays a very important role in the souths part for discrimination becausese the other slaves were all excluded from the current events occurring in the household while they were ignored from society even while others were dieing proving the souths neglect and discrimination. When the king and the duke were selling everything from the small property they swindled from the dead man‘s house they sold the...
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...understanding of African life and history. A People's Voice: Black South African Writing in the Twentieth Century. Abrahams style is clear and simple. The book is certainly demonstrative of the political, cultural and economic life in South Africa in the 194 s as well as in the 199 s, and in any African country where imperialism and exploitation continue to exist. New York: Collier, 197. Shava, Piniel. With this offer the symbolic alternatives for the poor black as represented by Xuma are clear---he can lose his life and soul to the capitalist system which is epitomized in the mines, or he can become corrupted through the business of helping other poor, miserable blacks to become numb through the use of alcohol, thereby corrupting himself at the same time. The major characters around Xuma in his awakening to this politically radical position are Leah (who has adapted to the corruption spawned by capitalist exploitation by building her own bootlegging business); Ma Plank(who has been worn down by her hard life but who has acquired a deep visceral knowledge of life and death); the drunks Liz, Johannes and Daddy(who have given up and turned to the numbness of alcohol); Eliza, Xuma's love interest (who yearns, essentially, to live the life of the bourgeo is white); and Maisy, strong within herself despite external circumstances, and finally perceived by Xuma to be the woman -for him instead of the would-be bourgeoisie Eliza). South Africa is an extreme example of the...
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...“Lemon Orchard” is a short story written by Alex La Guma, a South-African author, in the year 1962. The setting of this short story is in South Africa along two long, regular rows of trees, in a season of late winter, meaning it’s still a bit chilly in the air. It is late at night and there’s a big moon in the sky, it’s also a bit cloudy. It is probably set in the year that this story was written, while the big segregation in South Africa was still going on. The characters in “Lemon Orchard” is of a group of men, four of them mentioned in this story and their captive ‘colored’ man. There is the man with the small cycle lantern, a man who is the leader of the group carrying a loaded shotgun. All of the men in the party are warmly dressed, while there captive is the only one not wearing any thick clothes. This man is wearing trousers and a raincoat pulled over his pyjamas as if it was put on in a hurry. The action in this story is of these men walking through the night with their captive who they took because ‘colored’, probably referring to a man with a nationality of maybe Asian, South American etc. It is a racist way of calling a man, concerning his skin color. It doesn’t say exactly what happens to this man, but it kind of hints out that these men are here to beat this guy up, probably to his death, just because he has a different skin color. Also because he is an educated man who is a teacher. This is because in that time the people believed that men with darker skin...
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...couple with two power who symbolize the North and South. Miss Emily the South and Homer Barron the North. Two strong willed characters that be painted as them in a story where everyone can understand. The North stripped the South of all of it’s glory. Just like Homer Barron stripped Miss Emily of her pure innocence she once held. Faulkner clarifies the South no longer has it’s honor, like it used too. “A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner, indicates more than a story of an old women of the south. Faulkner’s interpretation illustrates how the Southern culture has disappeared, in other words, died. Due to the fact that the South was defeated by the North, the South is no longer prosperous after the Civil War. Faulkner develops the...
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...your ground and look fear in the face and overcome the impossible. One cannot face their fears or show anyone can be a hero, but it is the courageous and brave hearted acts of a person that separates them from other amateurs that cannot fit the description. Nothing in life is free or comes without working hard to make something happen. In order to be courageous, a person should have bravery, perseverance, and honesty Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa, did not choose to take an easy walk to freedom. Mandela is respected throughout the word for his integrity, courage, and dignity to be able to help his people in South Africa. . Nelson Mandela is well renowned in his country as a hero for his courage to stand for what he believed in and endured years in prison to help his country towards freedom. Nothing in life that is worth having is easy. Nelson Mandela accepted the challenge for freedom which was worth having and went for the greater good of his people. John f. Kennedy, former president of the United States who also fought about equality wrote about the profiles of courage. He stated that “ A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of the obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality” (225). A man of courage does whatever he can to make a difference or to fight for what they believe in despite the harsh consequences that are to come. BBC Commentator Brian Walden stated that Nelson Mandela is "perhaps...
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...that employs the use of macabre, ironic events to examine the values of the American south. Two of the most iconic writers to use this style are Flannery O’ Conner and William Faulkner. O’Conner’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” which depicts a southern family’s demise at the hands of a ruthless murderer, and Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” in which a well-to-do woman is discovered to have the rotting corpse of her lover in her bedroom, are two perfect examples of southern gothic stories. While both O’Conner and Faulkner use the southern gothic style, however, they use it to illuminate different aspects of southern culture. The most important and defining aspect of southern gothic writing is the use of macabre, or grotesque, events. Such events are easily identified in both stories. “A Rose for Emily, told through the eyes of an entire southern town, depicts a woman named Emily, who is the last remaining member of a once great family. The town watches as Emily grows more and more estranged as years pass. Eventually, when she dies alone, the town enters the house and is shocked to find the badly decomposed body of her lover, who had been assumed to have left Emily years before, in the bed of an upstairs room. Faulkner ends the story on a decidedly gruesome note, writing “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils...
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...As per the course requirement of History, we were assigned to write the review of a historic book “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” which was first published in 1912, written by James Weldon Johnson which deals with the life of African-American people after the civil war. In this book, Johnson picks an unnamed character who narrates the story of his life which he lived, in a first person point of view and the history of the American people. The narrator in this story is a bi-racial person who thought himself to be a white person until the school president made him realize he was not white, but he experiences the life of both colored and white man during his lifetime. He narrated about the difference between the life of colored and white...
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...1850?” “Well, I feel that the Compromise was an excellent decision for Mr. Clay to make. Not only did it resolve many issues that had come to divide the North and the South, but it was also beneficial for both.” “Do you feel the Compromise of 1850 was beneficial?” “Yes, both the North and the South benefited from it. The North gained California as a free state, the South gained no slave restrictions in both Utah and New Mexico territories, such was to be decided by popular sovereignty. Slave trade was prohibited in Washington D.C. but slaveholding in the area was allowed. Texas loses the boundary dispute with New Mexico but gains 10 million dollars. All in all, the Compromise was fair and giving to everyone in the Union.” “What are your feelings on Popular Sovereignty and the consequences that have resulted from it, such as Bleeding Kansas?” “Popular Sovereignty may have been created for the people and by the people, but it does not help the people. It unconstitutional and has sparked many violent and chaotic results that have only helped to divide our nation further. Bleeding Kansas is perhaps the most obvious of these violent consequences. Not only did Bleeding Kansas present that our nation had divided into two, a North and South, it provoked the two sides into a state of war. With good hearted men from the same House fighting against each other over something as a little as whether Kansas was to be a slave or free state. Frankly, our nation cannot be divided or it will...
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...Even before he was elected president, he showed signs of being a ‘people person.’ He possessed qualities of firmness, passion, and shrewdness. These were all qualities that the people wanted in the leader of their country. The painting by Francis William Edmunds, The City and the Country Beaux, is an exaggerated genre scene. In the painting, we can see the woman that is being courted by two very different men. The man on the left is from the country, while the man on the right is from the city. In this painting, the country man is shown to be seated in a vulgar manner with his legs spread open wide. His clothes look like they are made by hand and he seems to be quite relaxed without a care in the world. The man from the city, on the other hand, appears to be wearing expensive, store bought clothes. He is portrayed in more of a polite and respectful manner. Voters said that Jackson would be the people’s president, that the nation would be undivided, and that there would be no difference in the Yankee nation or the confused population of the South. This painting shows the political differences between...
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...The tension between the North and the South grew rapidly in the 19th century. The Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska Act are just some of the events that contributed to this. The reason that this tension grew was because during these events, the North and South had different views on the events. Sometimes the South would agree but the North would disagree and that caused problems. The Missouri Compromise was the starting point for this rapid growth. It took place in 1820 and permitted Maine to be admitted into the union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. When this happened, it maintained the balance of the Senate. Now, southern slave owners have a clear right to pursue escaped fugitives that went...
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...What in your view was the short-term significance of Cecil Rhodes from 1882 to 1902? Cecil Rhodes was one of the most important figures concerning British Expansion in South Africa during the years of 1882 to 1902. By becoming the prime minister of Cape Colony in 1890 and being one of the founding members of the De Beers company which dominated the world market for diamonds at that time, he played a controversial role in British history. Rhode’s fierce support for British Imperialism can clearly be seen as he envisaged bringing not only of the whole African continent under British Domination but the ultimate recovery of the United States of America to the British Empire. There were literally no limits to Rhode’s ambitions. He was a megalomaniac and this can be seen by his dream of creating the ultimate imperial railway from Cape to Cairo which would bring together all the British colonies in Africa. Firstly Rhode’s was responsible for expanding the British Colony of South Africa northwards from the cape. He was able to conquer many areas mainly using the BSAC (given to him in 1899). What is more Cecil Rhodes was the main catalyst towars many wars and conflicts such as the Battle of Shangani River of 1893 and the catastrophic for the British Second Boer War (also known as the South African war of 1899-1903). Last but not least another short- term significance of Rhodes was the deterioration of the lives of the native Africans through the racist attitudes he cemented during...
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...like for a white man to be black in the South during the end of the 1950’s? A procedure to darken the skin was possible and was done in 1959. In Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin, he explains and identifies how African Americans are treated differently and harshly due solely to the color of skin, by changing his own skin color to that of a black man. This book was written to provide America with hands-on experience of the daily life of a black man and help provide a possible solution to help America with the race problem. The role of race and skin color has a big impact on the community and way of life in Black Like Me. John Howard Griffin traveled throughout the South during the months of 1959 and leading into 1960 for an original purpose of scientific research study of African Americans but it soon changed to allowing America to know of his experience living as a black man.John Howard Griffin questioned, “if a white man became a Negro in the Deep South, what adjustments would he have to make? What is it like to experience discrimination based on skin color, something over which no one has no control?” These questions are the foundations for the purpose of Black Like Me. He believed to understand or learn the truth, a white man had to become an African American. John Howard Griffin will have traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Tuskegee, Alabama, and Atlanta, Georgia, during his research. As Mr. Griffin went through the South, he experienced...
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...Worksheet 3 Nadine Gordimer Biography Gordimer was born near Springs, Gauteng, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg, the daughter of Jewish immigrants. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a watchmaker from Lithuania near the Latvian border, and her mother Nan was from London. Gordimer's early interest in racial and economic inequality in South Africa was shaped in part by her parents. Her father's experience as a Jewish refugee in czarist Russia helped form Gordimer's political identity, but he was neither an activist nor particularly sympathetic toward the experiences of black people under apartheid. Conversely, Gordimer saw activism by her mother, whose concern about the poverty and discrimination faced by black people in South Africa ostensibly led her to found a crèche for black children. Gordimer also witnessed government repression firsthand when yet a teenager; the police raided her family home, confiscating letters and diaries from a servant's room. Gordimer was educated at a Catholic convent school, but was largely home-bound as a child because her mother, for "strange reasons of her own," did not put her into school (apparently, she feared that Gordimer had a weak heart). Home-bound and often isolated, she began writing at an early age, and published her first stories in 1937 at the age of fifteen. Her first published work was a short story for children, "The Quest for Seen Gold," which appeared in the Children's Sunday Express in 1937; "Come Again Tomorrow...
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...religion. One of these systems of government, and probably one of the most influential of modern times, was the Apartheid which ruled over South Africa since 1948 to 1994. “a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by the National Party (NP), the governing party from 1948 to 1994”2 Although Apartheid was legally established from 1948, the racism in South Africa has its roots since the twentieth century as the Dutch descendants initiated racial separation as an idea for the country’s development. When Apartheid started being applied as a law, racial segregation and abuse had its boom because black, Indian, Arabic and coloured population lost their right to participate in elections and to take charge of public office jobs, all these places were occupied by the whites, who represented only the 21% of the entire South African population. This way the white people was responsible of leaving the highest percentage of people unrepresented in the Parliament and also unable to speak up for the injustice they lived in. As the Parliament applied more and more laws, coloured and black people were being less represented and more repressed, they could not circulate freely through the “white regions”, were not able to own business, receive medical services and education of good quality, they were obligated to stay away from the white population and finally, interracial relationships and marriage...
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