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While reading this chapter, I see parallels between this article, and the previous article we read, by Alice Fahs. The women of the Civil War were very family oriented and patriotic, and these were one in the same. When the men went off to fight, the families relied on one another to get through the tough times they were facing. It seems to be the same with the Black community. These Black communities were "family oriented" (P. 156), and were said to "provide a variety of support - physical, economic, emotional, and psychological." (P. 156) The family unit was a way to get through the tough times of the post Civil War, especially for African Americans. I agree with what Thomas Bayne said about the right to vote, and it being "inherently linked to freedom." (P. 161) I don't understand how the white delegate E.L. Gibson could refute the idea of suffrage being related to freedom. For African Americans at the time, the right to vote was a way for them to separate themselves from the bonds of slavery they once endured. Suffrage meant freedom; it meant that the Black community finally had a voice, which to them, was probably equal to freedom. --- Alex Mankarios | While reading this chapter, I see parallels between this article, and the previous article we read, by Alice Fahs. The women of the Civil War were very family oriented and patriotic, and these were one in the same. When the men went off to fight, the families relied on one another to get through the tough times they were facing. It seems to be the same with the Black community. These Black communities were "family oriented" (P. 156), and were said to "provide a variety of support - physical, economic, emotional, and psychological." (P. 156) The family unit was a way to get through the tough times of the post Civil War, especially for African Americans. I agree with what Thomas Bayne said about the right to vote, and it being "inherently linked to freedom." (P. 161) I don't understand how the white delegate E.L. Gibson could refute the idea of suffrage being related to freedom. For African Americans at the time, the right to vote was a way for them to separate themselves from the bonds of slavery they once endured. Suffrage meant freedom; it meant that the Black community finally had a voice, which to them, was probably equal to freedom. --- Alex Mankarios | ||
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| + | I agree with everyone in that the reading in and of itself was interesting, shedding some light on how African American women influenced the political arena post-emancipation/Civil War, but those interesting tidbits seem to be just that, and I would like to discuss Brown's closing remarks concerning the development of "alternative political definitions" and terminology, which goes back to what I mentioned earlier in regards to the continued use of gendered language in our society. -schang | ||
