Chapter 15 "Voices of Freedom"

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

According to ________, the majority of the male sex can not yet endure the notion of living with an equal at home; and this is the source of the hostility to woman's equality in the state and the church- men are not ready to acknowledge it in the home.

genuine union

When marriage is the outcome of a(n) ________ of two people,

civil official

Every ________ shall, and every person may, arrest and return to his or her legitimate employer any freedman, free black, or mulatto who has quit his or her employer's employment.

Andrew Johnson

During 1865, ________ implemented his own reconstruction plan, creating processes for the formation of new governments in the South, chosen solely by white citizens.

Douglass

________ decried anti- Asian prejudice in his extraordinary "Composite Nation "address, made in Boston in 1869, and advocated for them to be granted all of the rights of other Americans, including the opportunity to vote.

Thomas J Ross

________ offers to hire freedmen to produce and cultivate crops on his Rosstown Plantation, Regarding the following Rules, Regulations, and Remunerations The said Ross promises to provide the land to cultivate, as well as a sufficient number of mules and horses to make and dwelling.

Frederick Douglass

________ was another supporter of Asian- American equality.

Naturalization treaties

________, like all other treaties, are circumscribed by circumstances.

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Answer

The emancipation Proclamation originated from the North (Union Government) This amendment freed slaves in the south

Explanation

The petitioners emphasized slave allegiance because they wanted to

Answer

They felt that American history was about the battle for equal liberties for everyone,

Explanation

The petitioners claim that their love for God and their birthplace is unaffected

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We are well aware of the many perplexing and trying questions that burden Your mind, and we pray to God (the preserver of all & who has made us a free people through our Late & Beloved President (Lincoln) proclamation & the war) that he may guide you in making your decisions, & give you that wisdom that Cometh from above to settle these great & important questions for the best interests of the country and the colored race

Here is where secession was conceived and fostered

Answer

We are free to do what we want with our land, or at least we should be

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If any freedman, free negro, or mulatto fails or refuses to pay any tax levied pursuant to the provisions of the sixth section of this act, it shall be prima facie evidence of vagrancy, and it shall be the duty of the sheriff to arrest such freedman, free black, or mulatto, or such person refusing or neglecting to pay such tax, and proceed immediately to hire such delinquent tax

payer to any one who will pay the said tax, with accruing costs, giving preference to the employer, if there be one

same extent that white people may

Except in incorporated cities or towns, the provisions of this section shall not be construed to authorize any freedman, free black, or mulatto to rent or lease any

All freedmen, free blacks, and mulattoes may intermarry in the same way and under the same conditions as are allowed by law for white people

The clerk of probate, however, should retain separate records of the same

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against a freedman, free black, or mulatto's person or property

Provided, however, that in all situations, said witnesses shall be cross-examined in public

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A significant subject presupposes our consideration

whether man and woman are co-heirs to all the riches and joys of earth and Heaven, or whether they were predestined from the beginning, one to be sovereign, the other to be subservient another slave, Here's a question for half of humanity, and that the stronger half, on one side, who control the citadel, control the finances and shape laws and popular mood to suit their own ends

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We have basically settled on two critical points

First, marriage is an irreversible bond that may be severed by a court order

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The way to health and pleasure opens out before us via knowledge and application of the law

a delight And peace that surpasses all comprehension will be ours, as will the restoration of Paradise on Earth

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The advancement of occasions has cleared away that pseudo-government which laid on covetousness, pride, and oppression; and the race whom he then, at that point, mercilessly scorned and stomped all over are here to meet him in banter, and to request that the privileges which are delighted in by their previous oppressors

who pointlessly tried to oust a Government which they couldn't whore to the base purposes of slave master

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In that desperate limit the individuals from the race which I have the distinction to a limited extent to address

the race which argues for equity at your hands to-day, careless of their cruelness

Mistreating subjugation at the South, their corruption and shunning at the North

flew enthusiastically and heroically to the help of the public Government