HIST 2112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Frances Harper, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sharecropping
16 Dec 2016
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Document 14. 1 & 14. 2 debating the freedmen"s bureau: two views. ~ for republicans it helped blacks transition from slavery to freedom but southerners and democrats did not approve. 14. 1: colonel eliphalet whittlesey report on freedmen"s bureau. Help blacks be independent, protect from injustice, help with employment, encourage education, etc. Explains how most of the freedmen went back to work quietly on their old plantations or gone to the union army. Not that many were still receiving government support and the rest were quiet in society so overall the bureau worked well. 14. 2: democratic flier talks about how it was vetoed twice by the president but congress passed it as a law so everyone should support the president. States that it cost the government 25 millions of dollars and everyone should protect the white man instead of supporting the negro. Document 14. 3 on suffrage frances ellen watkins harper.
