Abolitionist and Woman's Movements

Frederick Douglass wrote his speech about slavery in America since he was a slave at the time. He described how slaves were considered as property ad were sold like animals. Abolitionists tried to help slaves but slaves were often killed if they didn't obey orders. In order for them to gain freedom, they would have to risk to escape to the North. Slaves were black and were mistreated due to color/race. They were forced to work under harsh conditions and were feed little food. During 4th of July, Frederick said that it wasn't an independence day because there wasn't freedom.

The other speech was about Women's Right's. Women were expressing that there was inequality between them and males. Women were free, however they had limited rights such as no voting, etc. Nobody besides women tried to help them gain their rights back. Women were mistreated because of gender.


Both speeches have a few similarities. Women and slaves were fighting for freedom because their rights were restricted from them. Also, their education was denied as well as voting rights.

Transcendentalism

                     Transcendentalism is a social movement that developed around 1836 in New England, in reaction to rationalism. The main figures of this movement were Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Being influenced by Kantian philosophy, romanticism, and Platonism, it taught that holiness fills all nature and mankind. The members of this held developing views on feminism and mutual living.

2 Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

This quote is significant because having a positive attitude and being happy will give you better effort towards things, but  being negative will not make you try your best.

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

This quote is significant because by trying new things you will open yourself to man opportunities and that way you learn new things. Not learning = not growing.

2 Quotes from Henry David Thoreau:

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Following your dreams that you like will make you succeed better than not becoming who you want to be.

"Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated."

Books are only defined as to what they talk about, not what they look like.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

Trail of Tears

                         The Trail of Tears was a series of forced re-locations of the Native American tribes in the US along with the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The tribes such as the Cherokee, Seminole, Muscogee, and many others had to move out of their homelands and journey west of the Mississippi River to a designated Indian Territory. However, the Indian nations did not want to tie brotherhood with the American Society but the Americans decided to do so.

                         The Indian Removal Act was passed in 1830 of May, 28 by the Congress. This was passed under the presidency of Andrew Jackson and was a purpose to negotiate with the tribes in order to obtain their ancestral homelands. Many tribes where affected by this and it was great pressure for the Natives to journey outward.

                          The Black Hawk War broke out between the US and the Native Americans. This started in 1832 and was a conflict lead by Black Hawk who was a Sauk leader. The war occured just after the Natives crossed the Mississippi and where about to venture to the federal territory for their stay.

                           The Second Seminole War, also referred as the Florida War, happened in 1835 and ended in 1842 in Florida. This war started because the Seminoles weren't happy about giving up their lands so they created a conflict towards the United States.

Trail of Tears Sign

Trail of Tears Map

Quarter 3 Blog Reflection

1. My best post was probably my first 2 because I put a lot of effort into it and I felt that I did good for doing a blog for the first time.

2. I would rewrite the Tecumseh Speech paragraph blog because I didn't fully complete it which made me get a 2 instead of a 5.

3. I'd have to say that my blog look average overall. I have most of the blogs posted, except for one that I forgot. I feel that my blog looks nice since I personalized it a bit, and that the pictures on the posts make it look even more better.

4. I like having to do blogs in the computer lab on Mondays because it's different than usual classroom work and technology is so common now that everyone likes going on computers. From doing blogs, I've learned various things such as the US, presidents, treaties, Native Americans, Supreme Court cases, Ferguson, slavery, election day, wars, etc. In my opinion, doing classworkwith computers is much more fun and it's an interesting way of learning.

12 Years A Slave Blog #3

Violence played a vicious role throughout the slave society. The ways that slaves are led to violence are by being tortured and/or killed by white slave owners. The forms of violence are being lashed, being lynched, being shot, etc. In the movie 12 Years a Slave, Solomon as well as Patsey and a few others got lashed by a whip of Master Epps', simply because they didn't either obey his orders or didn't work enough. Epps didn't like Solomon in the first place which set the tone for the rest of the days. No one died from Solomon's group but Pastey was critically hurt after being lashed by Solomon under Master Epps' orders. Having a slave beat another slave was also common back then because owners would be too tired to do so. 

Solomon almost killed by hanging

12 Years A Slave Blog #2

Genders within slaves shapes their experiences in many ways. Men who are slaves typically do most of the hard work and are in harsh conditions. On the other hand, women who were slaves served more like maids of the owners' house because they can clean and do house work more capably than men. Therefore, sometimes women slaves would end up being either raped or becoming a wife due to the fact that many slave owners took those actions. In the movie 12 Years a Slave, men as well as Solomon were working out in the fields in harsh conditions and had high expectations among Master Epps. While they worked, a women slave got the most cotton out of anyone in the group, This made Epps like here more and later on in the film, he basically has sex with her and she ends up having a baby. The gender norm back in the was: men do the hard work, women do the cleaning work.

Pastey, a slave woman

12 Years A Slave Blog #1

Changes in ownership of slaves affects slaves with both their living and working conditions in several ways. There are instances where a group of slaves have a nice owner as opposed to a mean owner and vice versa. Nice owners usually give more opportunities to their slaves and treat them better while mean owners just treat their slaves horribly. In the movie 12 Years A Slave, Solomon Northup is a slave for Master Ford who is a great and caring owner. His living and working conditions are fair and he supports him. Later, after having a fight with Tibits, Master Ford can no longer keep Solomon and transfers him to Master Epps. This master is a mean slave owner and treats his slaves as well as Solomon very poorly, up to the point where you'll get beaten. Solomon having Epps as a Master totally changed the way he did things. He had to pick more cotton every day and the working conditions were harsh. 

Solomon's mean owner: Master Epps