RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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He had spent several years in England and Ireland
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He had been enslaved during his youth in Maryland.
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He had married and settled with his wife in Massachusetts
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He had been the only African American to attend the Seneca Falls Convention
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Detailed explanation-1: -He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War. After that conflict and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862, he continued to push for equality and human rights until his death in 1895.
Detailed explanation-2: -Frederick Douglass worked tirelessly to make sure that emancipation would be one of the war’s outcomes. He recruited African-American men to fight in the U.S. Army, including two of his own sons, who served in the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
Detailed explanation-3: -He recruited African Americans to fight in the Union army, including two of his sons, and he continued to write and speak against slavery, arguing for a higher purpose to the war.
Detailed explanation-4: -Attends first Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York. Breaks with Garrison over issue of political action to end slavery, which Garrison opposes. Visits Harriet Beecher Stowe at her home. runaway slaves to find freedom via the Underground Railroad.