ONLINE AMH 2091 UNIT REFLECTIONS (II)

In unit one, we discussed African Americans being taken as slaves and sailed across the sea. A slave society to a society with slaves is the main premises, with slaves struggling to survive in this New World. Unit two focuses a little more on the attitude and rebellious nature of such trauma. Unable to live like animals, rebellions began to get more and more serious.

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Turner's Rebellion is one to be remembered. In Southampton County, Virginia in 1831, Nat Turner led rebel slaves in to an onslaught of over five dozen people, one of the most terrifying slave rebellions recorded. Rebellions such as these continued over two decades, and ultimately, had some part of leading to the Civil War. The American Civil War (1861-1865) was a war between the North and South over the development of slavery. The end result being, as President Abraham Lincoln being holding the position in office at this time, he released the Emancipation Proclamation.
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The Emancipation Proclamation declared that "all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free." Issued on January 1, 1863, it hardly had any immediately noticeable impact. Slaves owners would hide this information from slaves, and prevent them from having any knowledge of the new law. Around June in 1865, news finally was well known to the American Society, and the 19 of that month eventually became known as "Juneteenth Day."