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This 5-page paper is an essay that addresses issues such as the Revolutionary War's impact on society, and the concept of equality (and if it existed) following the war. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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to speak and think the way we want and equality. But are we looking at the Revolution and the period immediately following it with rose-colored glasses? Were things, in fact,
"equal" when it came to the human race? No doubt at the time, the concept of freedom and liberty sounded wonderful (and may have been practiced to an extent). But
how far had Americans really gone by 1790 when it came to fulfilling the ideal and idea of equality? During the War of Independence itself, African Americans began making "slow
and steady" gains, but only in the north (Higginbotham, 2001). At that time, slavery was practiced in the northern part of the colonies, but during and shortly after the Revolutionary
War, the north began getting rid of the concept (Higginbotham, 2001). This was not to say, however, that all men automatically embraced
one another as brothers. The truth was just the opposite. Though the American Revolution "witnessed the first challenges to slavery and the slave trade" (Blackburn, 1991) the First Continental Congress
shied away from making slavery an issues in the Constitution. On the other hand, during the war, American rebels did end up suspending the slave trade, with the British Governor
of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). But by the time 1790 rolled around, most of the
New England states had laws banning slavery and trying to ban prejudice, as well as adopting emancipation laws (Blackburn, 1991). But it
also needs to be remembered that slaves were considered three-fifths of a person for purposes of dividing members into the House of Representatives (Blackburn, 1991). The tide basically began turning
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