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2.5 pages in length. The writer discusses the cultural injustices imposed upon the Native Americans and African Americans in post-revolutionary America. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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were certainly monumental in nature, they did not serve to address the underlying and perpetual absence of human rights that all white men were given as a matter of course.
Once the nineteenth century arrived, however, things became even worse to the point where whatever rights were granted the northern free African Americans were summarily reversed. In 1807,
for example, New Jersey withdrew their right to vote, an action that Pennsylvania also enacted in 1838. New York disallowed African Americans from voting in 1821 by way of
forcing them to own property in order to do so; they were no longer even allowed to enter Indiana territory or to hold office, vote or testify against whites in
Ohio. Clearly, the post-revolutionary period, which offered such hope and anticipation for African American freedom came to represent nothing more than a continuum of emotional pain and cultural suffering
(Anonymous, 2001). Religion reflected yet another area in which the African Americans were subjected to tremendous change in the post-revolutionary era. Slavery was gradually becoming abolished in the Northern
states, however, with this dissolution came sharper differences (Maffly-Kipp, 2001) between the Southern enslaved and the Northerner who had already experienced a significant extent of freedom. With more and
more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cultures and languages soon created a transformation in the way in which religious practices occurred, a
transition that happen simultaneously with awakenings, a time of concentrated religious revivalism (Maffly-Kipp, 2001). At the crux of this upheaval was the concern over blacks gaining religious strength by
practicing apart from the whites and ultimately plan rebellion against their owners (Maffly-Kipp, 2001). The Native Americans fared no better than their African American counterparts in the post-revolutionary period.
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