Hello everybody! J Today I’m
going to talk a little about the Civil War. In Norwegian it means “Borgerkrigen”.
It was fought from 1861 to 1865.
The
Civil War was between northern USA and southern USA. The northern USA thought
it was wrong that the southern used the black people like farm animals. The black people wasn’t allowed to vote, they
were both and sold, and black families were broken up. The south actually didn’t
for a while think of the black people as Humans! That’s absurd, isn’t it? The Civil War didn’t just start because
of slavery, but the sustenance or abolition of slavery was the result everyone
watched for, and what all the politicians fought for.
In
the Civil War as much as 600.000 people died! This was horror on a scale no
American ever saw before or since. The South surrendered and when
it was over, Richmond had been bombed into a moonscape, General Sherman had
burned Atlanta to the ground, and the President was killed. But also The Union
was able to welcome back all seceded states, per Lincoln’s wishes, and
permanently outlaw slavery of any kind. The president was Abraham Lincoln who
freed the slaves with the emancipation proclamation and they became free
humans.
