Title: The Civil War and Ideas of Freedom | Ultius
Headings: The Civil War and Ideas of Freedom
The Civil War and Ideas of Freedom
The Civil War and path to freedom
Death toll of the Civil War
Freedom as an idea during the Civil War
Looking back at post-Civil War freedoms and success gained
Conclusion
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Content: Both men believed in their nation and fiercely supported the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Freedom was an essential American concept at the core of the nation’s value system that progressively leaning northerners associated with abolishing slavery. For men like General Lee, the concept of freedom seems more complex. It can be argued that he wanted freedom for the Confederacy from the Union and freedom from laws against slavery. It is known that Lee was very traditional in both his upbringing and his military tactics; perhaps what he wanted most of all was to maintain the ideas of freedom that
It is known that Lee was very traditional in both his upbringing and his military tactics; perhaps what he wanted most of all was to maintain the ideas of freedom that his father, a revolutionary war hero, had fought for. In this sense, American freedom was either seen by the north as a fluid concept that needed to move forward with the abolishment of slavery, or a fixed notion by those in the south that did not want to be told how they should conduct business on their plantations. Freedom as an idea during the Civil War
For many people, both Northerners and Southerners alike, freedom was a complex idea that found itself in a conundrum in regards to slavery. As Chandra Manning writes in her book, common people of the era like farmers, shopkeepers, and laborers who fought in the Thirteenth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, were quoted claiming “slavery is the undeniable cause of this infamous rebellion, that is a war of, by, and for Slavery is as plain as the noon-day sun” or “any man who pretends to believe that this is not a war for the emancipation of the blacks…is either a fool or a liar” (Manning 3).