العبودية في الحرب الاهلية الامريكية 1861 - 1865 == Slavery in the American Civil War ( 1861 - 1865
Author name:
احمد هاشم ناجي طراد
Supervisor name:
علي خيري مطرود
General topic:
History
Specific topic:
Modern and Contemporary History
Degree:
Master
University:
Wasit University - Faculty Of Education - Department Of History
Language:
Arabic
University location:
Wasit
First pages:
11T3408 - p.pdf
Abstract:
The United States, in spite of her shortage of history, passed by a unique, social and humanitarian experiment, sprung from struggles for the sake of existence between two societies distinct in their ideology and lifestyle. One of the societies was free and industrial, while the other was agricultural. They both expressed themselves via contradictive philosophy and lifestyle, which ended at a civil war, lasted for four years (1861 - 1865}. That war was due to internal and external diverse reasons, but crossed at the case of slavery and its consideration for the American society and regime.Since that phase set at the end the status of the slavery and dividing the American society, free and slaves, the researcher has found it is Important to search for that in a scientific study, focusing on slavery at that phase of the American history, in relation to the political, ideological and military struggles; and here is a trial to survey the overviews of the south and the north towards slavery, in principle, behavior and essences, and how such struggle result in establishing a stable and united society after four years of fierce war.The importance of the study lies in its intention to state the nature of the ideological, political and social transfers, adding to that the economic ones, which has led the American society to formulate an entirely new different view towards slavery and its concept, whether in the history of humanity in general or the American history. It sheds light on the changes and procedures required to abolish any kind of racism towards any social group, to incorporate it within the whole body of society, for what happened with the slaves in the United States of America, event if it is too far; that is to get use of this experiment to solve similar problems in our societies, which still work on different religious, racial, andsectorial discrimination, taking into consideration the private features of each society.In order to facilitate tracing the historical actions and the textual manipulations, the study is divided into four chapters and a conclusion. Chapter one tackles the historical study of slavery and to extent it effects on the American state until 1861; chapter two exposes slavery on the first stage of the Civil War {April, 1861 - September 1862). Chapter three focuses on the proclamation of emancipation on both levels : the military and the constitutional, adding to the that its effect on the second phase of the civil war (September, 1862 — May, 1865). Chapter Four is concerned with two important subjects; the first personalizes the internal situation of announcing the emancipation proclamation and how the interior of the United States of America reacted to that proclamation, the rebellion against it and the opinion of the public and the parties about it. No doubt, the study shows slavery as a phenomenon in the American society to spring entirely from an economic need, especially at the beginning. There was a need for more working hands which could be cheap or even free, which case increased the number of slaves and their trade on the American state. This does not mean that the economic need was not interfered with political, social and religious needs at specific phase, especially that of the development of the American society, in spite of the ideological discrimination which splits the south from the north from the first day of occupying the American continent.That discrimination was clear with the social progress, especially in the phase that preceded the civil war, for It wasreflected in the northern thought of freedom and equation, notwithstanding his race, language and color, on their daily behavior towards the slaves, freeing them, then employing them as workers. Then that was reflected on the northern policy and his endeavor to abolish slavery, whether for humanitarian reasons or other political or economic ones.
