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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
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The Civil War and Ideas of Freedom
Ultius
18
Oct
2014
The Civil War was the most devastating war in American history and pitted brother against brother for four years of bloody warfare. This sample history essay explores the ways in which freedom was portrayed in the war, and how the idea of freedom held very different meanings between Union and Confederate idealogues. The Civil War and path to freedom
Ideas of freedom for the two opposing forces, the Union and the Confederacy, were markedly different from one another. In many ways, the notion of freedom that had been declared years earlier in the Declaration of Independence was tried and questioned by many who assumed freedom was an absolute. For the north, it seemed only right that a progressive move towards freedom for all men is at the core of the still new democracy that was the Unites States of America. For southerners who often relied on slave labor to make their livings, or in some cases their fortunes, slavery was an essential part of the business that they couldn’t afford to have regulated by the industrialist up north. The Civil War forced both those loyal to the Union and the Confederacy to reexamine what freedom meant and what price they were willing to pay for it. Death toll of the Civil War
The Civil War was the bloodiest in America’s history. More men and boys died during this 4-year period than in both World Wars combined. The evolution of the idea of freedom is described by Eric Foner in his text Give Me Liberty!: “