Essays on Black Codes

Jim Crow was a dance made up by a white American. The dance and song itself were written by a comedian Thomas Dartmouth Rice, also known as Daddy Rice, in 1828, which depicted African-American culture. On the other hand, the performances were deriding slavery whilst poor African-Americans had to deal with the indignity. That was what the jumped Jim Crow dance and song was all about. Immigrants, lower class and colored people faced hard times. Although progressives responded to the ills of inner cities and working-class immigrants with ...

According to Foner, the American Civil War laid the foundation for modern America, guaranteed the Union’s predominance, destroyed slavery in America and shifted power from the North to the South (551). However, the greatest challenge that faced the United States after the Civil War was the task of reconstructing America to ensure that liberated slaves retained their freedom (Foner 551). This essay will argue that ‘Reconstruction’ is the best word to characterise national priorities after the Civil War by exploring several reasons behind this term’s accuracy. There will be an analysis of the other terms historians have ...

The enactment of the Black Codes took place after the Civil War and at the beginning of the Reconstruction Era. The Reconstruction Era was a period that focused on the transformation of the United States (“Reconstruction: The Challenge of Freedom”, n.p). The Black Codes were passed with the aim of restricting the freedom of the African Americans. The laws also had the capability of compelling the blacks to work for low wages or debt in the labor economy (“Black Codes”, n.p). The enactment of the Black Codes should not have taken place as it was a propagation of racial ...

When asked to view the documentary Slavery by Another Name, I was expecting to see something about prisoners being used in forced labor by some other country. I was clearly not expecting it to be about the treatment of African Americans in the United States after the Emancipation Proclamation. Based on my understanding of American history, I believed that after the Civil War, African Americans had some struggles, but they were free. I understood that there was still discrimination, especially in the American South, but the former slaves at least had the opportunity to make a living on their ...

After the emancipation of black slaves from bondage under the yoke of slavery, the United States witnessed a change in its social order as for the first time in history the federal government supported egalitarianism. Now, the liberation of persons of African descent came after the American Civil War of between 1861 and 1865 in which the anti-slavery Northerners won under the Union flag. As a result, the pro-slavery Southerners conformed to the abolition sentiments of the North simply because they lost the war and were in no way for the equality of races in the country. Accordingly, within ...