a. When and how did slavery begin in the southern state?
Slavery in the southern state begins in the 1600. Slaves starting to evolve in the South where there were large plantations grew cotton and other crops. These plantations needed many workers and manpower to take care of the crops and farm thus they hired a of those in the southern states which are the blacks to work for them and they gradually named as slaves.
b.Which country were the slaves brought from?
The slaves were brought from countries like Africa and South America.
c.Who traditionally bought and owned the slaves?
The whites traditionally buy and own the slaves as they were born physically strong and they were very hardworking and low pay manpower. They were also not given educations so they will be loyal and not encouraged to run away.
d.Were there laws/rules that the slaves had to abide by? If yes what were they?
They could not gather in groups of four or more because they will be suspect to plan an escape from the employers.If they caught trying to run away, they will be beaten and cut off their body parts so that they could not run away.They were also controlled by their owner and could not own any forms of weapon as the owner scared they might shoot their owners. Lastly, they were not allowed to read or write as the whites feared that they might had the ability to think about freedom and planned to escape.
e. I understand now the feelings of being a slave. It is cruel and inhuman-like to treat other people as a slaves or animal because they too are humans and deserve the privilege to be equally treated like other normal humans. After doing research on slavery, I now learnt to respect others and hope that in the future I will not discriminate others based on their physical appearance or their historical past.The study of slavery also helps me to understand the novel better as it shows the discrimination based on slavery and blacks.
CIVIL WAR
a. Identify the southern states.
American south, Dixie, Down south, or just simply south countries.
b. Who was the president who proclaimed war against the South?
Abraham Lincoln was the president who proclaimed war against the South.
c. Why was the civil war fought?
Some thought that the civil war was fought over slaveries and that the Union forces were fighting to free the Slaves while the South fought to keep the slave continue working for them. But some they thought the civil war was fought over secession, if the south had not declared independence ,Abraham Lincoln might not have launched an invasion.
d. When was the civil war fought?
1861-1865
e. What was the outcome of this war?
The civil war had several outcomes, one of it was that slavery became illegal in the United States and the South or Confederacy failed to be an independent republic after the North Union won the civil war. Also after the war, it united them and resulted in accelerating advanced technology and creation and their strength was overpowering. And there was quotes about the United states now which are "The United States ARE" to "The United States IS".
f. The Civil Rights movement shows the discrimination on blacks and it may resulted in bloodbaths or some unfair issues like making the blacks to be slaves. Example in the civil war, it was fought because of the racial equality among the blacks and whites introduced by the Union, the South could not tolerate the fact and so fought the Union. In TKAM , Tom Robinson who was a black was accused by Mayell Ewell, a white of raping her. The case was settled by some juries, but the jury had already the answer in mind and mark Tom Robinson as a rapist as he was a black. They did not investigate properly the fact that Mayell Ewell was the one who wanted to had an affair with Tom Robinson. Because of the prejudice on blacks , the juries was convinced that Tom Robinson was the rapist. It was sad on how blacks were treated in the past, they did not have the chance to speak up right just because of the prejudice on them. Because of that also, it resulted a lot of issues in the public against the prejudice and thus resulted a war or something like Scout's father Atticus accused by the public just because he decided to help a black.
JIM CROW's LAW
a. What/Who is Jim Crow
Jim Crow is a song by Thomas Darthmouth "Daddy" Rice. Rice is a white man who was the first performers who wears black-face makeup. Rice discriminates black through musics and his performance. He was stereotypical and has alot of racial slurs.
b.What were Jim Crow's Laws?
Jim Crow's Law were the segregation of public schools, transportation, restaurants and other kinds of places where crowds gathered. They were forced to attend different facilities or section of places, like different school, different toilets, different seats in transportations to separate whites from blacks.
c.What was the response of the slaves and the blacks to these laws?
The segregation led to a lot of fights and discussions or debates on civil rights, especially some of the Jim Crow's law that segregated schools and daily transportation. Some of the slaves or blacks refuse to obey the law of segregation in buses. These problems gradually build up the tensions and anger in society and in some times, the Jim Crow's law finally became a major questions and problems to settle.
d.Do we see the Jin Crow's laws surface in the novel? If so then in which part of the novel?
Yes, when the blacks and whites go to different churches and they lived separately from the whites.
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