"Many Thousand Gone"

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This paper examines "Many Thousand Gone", a book written by Ira Berlin that traces the history of slavery in America. It analyzes how Berlin provides insight into the many different areas of life for African-Americans, including an overview of 200 years of history and details of culture within the enslaved communities. It looks at how the book traces the progress towards freedom and the obstacles and setbacks America, as a whole, had to overcome.

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"Freed blacks were not truly free, but more free than slaves on the plantation, and had very little rights. They lacked many fundamental rights such as voting rights, serving on trail juries, testifying in court, and in some places not even being able to travel without having the proper papers on them at all times. Some southern laws denied blacks access from using public areas, some populated areas provided segregated areas of low quality. Since they where limited on owning property and could not work alongside whites even in factories, or mills, it was hard to provide any standard of living. If you were a fortunate free man of color living in the north it was possible to obtain a very small patch of land."

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