Friday, January 27, 2017
The civil war was a war the temporarily split the unions, mainly all over slavery. The war resulted in the 13th amendment, end of slavery. Yet after they were free they were treated poorly, but they where not the only race experiencing this at the time. The Irish had immigrated to American during the great famine in Ireland. The Irish and African Americans were very different yet so similar at the same time. From African Americans being taken to America as slaves to the Irish being taken to America as indentured servants, they downgraded from the start by whites. Although the slaves had more worth in the eyes of white men due to them being valuable property.
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How do you think this changed during the reconstruction era? In this era, new laws and amendments gave african americans more rights. What happened to the mistreated Irish servants? Did they gain any rights back? And if not, when were they seen as equal?
ReplyDeleteit was interesting on how the unions were split just for something like slavery. Also i never knew that the Irish were discriminated against
ReplyDeleteThis was a very informative post, I never knew the similarities of the Irish and African Americans before.
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