Question

One main consequence of the Civil War was the abolition of slavery. For the first time, some four million blacks living in the South faced life as freed people. Regarding the emancipation of slaves: What tensions and conflicts emerged between the ideal that all human beings are created equal and the previous existence of slavery and ongoing racial prejudice?

Using evidence provide at least two distinct consequences of this tension and conflic.

Answer 1

One of the major issues in the American Society is racial discrimination that began right from the beginning of the American society. Black people were removed from their natural environment to work as slaves to the white. Without the modern weapons, the white do not stand a chance with the physical and fighting skills of the black people. They used them to build America but refused to give them what was rightfully theirs. The racist South unleashed huge violence on the black people after the emancipation declared by Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves. In reality, black people experienced more violence after the civil war and after declared as freemen.

The ignorance of the white people that color decides one’s superiority in the world doesn’t make any sense in the real world and they still hold white skin color is the supreme color and people of color, the other race people don’t match them. This has caused institutionalized racism where it is practiced systematically with the approval of the law.

The struggle however is to continue for more years until the white population becomes cultured and accept the fact that all human beings are equal and they belong to one same race. So, there is no point of talking about superiority instead people should think of cohabitation where everyone live in harmony.