Harrison+Stridiron

=Name: Henry Alexander (slave)=

==**I am a 19 year old slave. I live on a big plantation in Spartanburg,SC with a lot of slaves. My master is nice. I don't beleive in slavery. I was raised to hate slavery. I wish I was out of slavery and it was all over because I am really tired of all of it. Even though my master is nice, we still have to work and I don't like it.**== =A page from the journal of= = = ==Entry Number 1: Abraham Lincoln decided to emancipate (free) all enslaved African Americans in the South. After the Union forces returned the Confederate troops at battle of Antietam on 8/22/1862, Lincoln announced order freeing slaves by formally signing the Emancipation Proclamation. It stated: "...all persons held as slaves within any state... in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, an forever free." Although it did not free anyone. He wanted it to encourage them to run away. Lincoln was cheered by African-Americans on the day it was signed.== ==Abraham Lincoln was a very brave president. He made it easier for me and my family. He was a very good guy to help end slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation helped slaves realize how we are supposed to be free. President Lincoln helped us realize that not all white people are not mean to us slaves and other African Americans. Even though it did'nt really free us, we at least know people care about us and we are not alone in the fight for freedom.== ==Entry Number 2: Nat Turner was a religious leader who knew how to read and write. He was born on a small plantation in Virginia. He was taught to hate slavery. Many people called him "the Prophet". He and seven followers led a violent rampage in Southhampton Country, Virginia that killed around 55 white people. They stole the weapons from whites as they killed them. After the rampage his followers were hanged. Around six weeks later he got caught and hanged. After the rampage many whites were frightened. The white people were suprised. Prior to the Nat Turner Revolt, a small antislavery movement took place in Virginia. It was uneffective. The number of blacks scared whites.== ==Nat Turner was one of the boldest slaves to do that. Me and other slaves on the same plantation as me love him for trying to do what he believed in. He and his followers changed the way whites looked at us. He is always talked about when slavery is brought up because of the brave thing he did to find freedom. He and his rampage helped us see that we can try and could succeed to find our freedom.== ==Entry Number 3: The Underground Railroad helped escape around 30,000 slaves. It began during colonial period, later, an organized abolitionist act. It reached it's peak at 1865. Slaves were helped by Quakers. Sometimes a conductor would pose as a slave and go into a plantation to escape slaves. They then would travel to stations atleast 10-20 miles away from each other. The escape route was to Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Harriet Tubman is one of the most famous conducters. She went to pick up the slaves and they traveled to the stations leading to the free destinations. As masters got mad and frustrated because of their escaping slaves, the Fugitive Slave Law was made. It created less slave escapes. Fewer than 1,000 slaves escaped a year.== ==I am glad the underground railroad helped free other slaves. It helped a a lot of slaves have happiness. The underground railroad and the conductors was one of the main routes to slave happiness. Harriet Tubman was a very brave woman to do what she did for her people. She made history with her brave acts.==



Essential Questions
==1. How does one's understanding of slavery affect his understanding of the people and events of the 1850s and 1860s? It helps one realize what history has been like and what we have been through compared to now and how we got here.==

==2. Why would slavery ever be condoned in the United States? Some people are just to lazy to do what they have to do, so they can try to make it a law for slavery again so the slaves can do all the hard work.==

==3. Was the Civil War the only means to end slavery in the United States? No, because not all people got it through their head that slavery is not right after the war and The Emancipation Proclamation also helped end slavery. Some people like Martin Luther King, Jr also helped.==

==4. What are some of the long-term effects of slavery that are linked to the people and events of the past? Some people are still racist causing war and some long term affects are also how people are not being treated like they should.==