The Impact of Civil War

The northern people in the United States were the black people whom together with the freedmen were highly impacted by the civil war. Some of the social impacts of the war in the lives of this people was like the great weeping which followed the sale of many into slavery. It was a two day’s cry of around 436 men, children and women auctioned and sale which is recorded as the greatest that has ever happened (Moneyhon, 2002). This period was marked as “the weeping time”. This period was associated with very high levels of slavery which was later was announced by the senator of New York that slavery had been abolished.

The civil war affected people terribly socially especially those in the northern Carolina who suffered great loss of their people who died in the war. It is recorded that more than thirty thousand troops died most of them at the battle and others from strange diseases. The war also led to great social resolution that both affected the persons of wealth and the slaves and most of them even changed their location (Moneyhon, 2002). Some of them retired to their homes voluntarily due to the deplorable conditions that surrounded them causing diseases and death. However much the freedmen were free from slavery, they never trusted the whites who professed friendship for they had memories of slavery abuses still fresh in their minds. Some of the Freedmen suffered injustice in the hands of invading white soldiers. Bearing in their minds that the war wasn’t over yet, being unsure of what or whom to trust some decided to remain under their previous masters whom they would be with even when Union forces moved on (Perman, & Taylor, 2011). There was also a group of missionary organizations, teachers both the blacks and the whites, churches and schools worked tirelessly and in union to give people a chance to be educated. This chance was taken even by the former slaves of all ages to become literate.

Politically the Northern blacks were affected by the sale of men which was later protested by Freedmen and the Southern society and made it to defeat the slaveholders, civilians and soldiers. They got a chance to liberate the slaves and later by virtue of power and for a foresaid reason slaves were declared free and was also abolished in the constitution. The war department general ordered the creation of U.S. colored troop, only persons with suitable condition were to be received in the armed service (Perman, & Taylor, 2011). There was established a Northern Democratic party which had several resolutions which were set for the better being of the northern people especially the enslaved ones. This happened after the civil war and during the presidential campaigns just before the elections.

There was much impact also on the economics of the involved individuals including the Freedmen and the Northern blacks (Bean, 2016). The destruction of the slavery institutions resulted in a cataclysm that had never been experienced in the state before. The wealthy and affluencial men either lost or abandoned their extensive lands due to lacking the required labor force. This gave the freed slaves a chance to embark and find their place in an ever shifting society. However much the whites had agreed grudgingly to give the black right they previously never possessed of not being enslaved they never heed to social and legal equity(Gallagher, & Lippard, 2014). Altogether, this war had a great negative impact to the economy because the workers previously depended on were no more.

 

 

 

 

References

Bean, C. B. (2016). Too great a burden to bear: The struggle and failure of the Freedmen's

          Bureau in Texas. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/index.html

Gallagher, C. A., & Lippard, C. D. (2014). Race and racism in the United States: An

          encyclopedia of the American mosaic. : http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/

Moneyhon, C. H. (2002). The impact of the Civil War and reconstruction on Arkansas:

          Persistence in the midst of ruin. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.

Perman, M., & Taylor, A. M. (2011). Major problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction:

          Documents and essays. Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/#personal-correspondence

 

 

 

 

 

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