Unit 5: Period 5: 1844-1877

"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty

"Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.... Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealt

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immun

"Every negro is required to be in the regular service of some white person, or former owner, who shall be held responsible for the conduct of said negro.... Negroes must make annual contracts for their labor in writing.... If they should run away fro

"They came to my house about two o'clock in the night.... They broke my door open, took me out of bed, took me to the woods, and whipped me three hours or more and left me for dead. They said to me, 'Do you think you will vote for any more Radical ti