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A 10 page research paper that explores the effects of the Civil War on the lives of Black Americans. The writer argues that while the American Civil War technically ended the institution of slavery in the United States, in principle, the reality of the situation was far different. Economic and political circumstances combined to keep African Americans subjugated for the next century. The writer discusses the Compromise of 1877, Reconstruction politics, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Jim Crow laws. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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the situation was far different. Economic and political circumstances combined to keep African Americans subjugated for the next century. Sociologically after-effects of slavery also played a role in black oppression,
as black Americans had been held in captivity, barred from any sort of education, and reduced to the status of beast of burden for two hundred plus years. Practically none
of the newly freed slaves were fully prepared to meet the contingencies of life under the new system. While the US government offered some assistance in the form of
the Freedmans Bureau to counter this, such assistance was far too little and too short-lived to actually meet the needs of a newly freed people. Essentially, black Americans received what
one abolitionist termed "nothing but your freedom."1 An examination of the post-Civil War period demonstrates that -- in the long run -- the Civil War did remarkably little to alter
the dire plight of most African Americans, who were still subject to conditions of extreme hardship, political oppression, and abject poverty. First of all, in understanding how the Civil War
failed, long term, to seriously affect the lives of black Americans, it is, first of all, necessary to correct some standard misconceptions concerning the popular understanding of American history. Abraham
Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that there were still slaves in the nations capital in
1860 and that as President-elect, Lincoln offered "to support a constitutional amendment to insulate the institution of slavery in the slave states from federal interference."2 When the Emancipation Proclamation was
issued, it only freed slaves in the rebelling Southern states. Slaves in states that remained loyal to the union were still the legal property of their masters. As these facts
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