Unit Reflections Blog 2
I thought I've learned all I needed from the last chapters but these chapters were even more eye opening. First we learned of how people were in the past in Africa. Then we got an understanding of how life was like being transported through the middle passage. Lastly, a little bit of there life as slaves. Now we are learning of the fight for freedom and the aftermath of how life was after slavery. We get a closer look at how life was after slavery and how long it took to gain this semblance of freedom. This is the topic of unit 2 and we will take a deeper dive into what life was like for African Americans before and after the civil war. What I've learned from chapter 5 is about the three-fifths compromise, which states that every slave can now be counted as part of a person when it comes to voting. This was invented to appease both the North and the South to keep both sides happy in the debates. Though after time this mainly ends up benefitting...