The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.
The controversial decison issused by the executive order did not free slaves of the border states. In West Virginia, only slaves in Jefferson Couny were freed. In the case of Union-occupied CSA states, other than Tennessee, slaves were freed immediately. Slaves in the eastern North Carolina, Mississippi Valley, northern Alamaba, Shenandoah Valley, Arkansas, Georgia, and South Carolina benefited from the declaration and subsequent allotment of land to newly freed slaves. In 1862, the Congress declaration highlighted compensation to slave owners who 'released' their slaves from bondage. This led to a number of slave owners grabbing the opprunity and freeing the slaves in a number of United States territories.
Realism
In most people's minds, years following the Civil War symbolized a time of healing and rebuilding. A literary civil war raged on between the camps of romantics and the realists and later, the naturalists. People waged verbal battles over the way that fictinal characters were presentedin relation to the external world. These american realists believed that humanity's freedom of choice was limited by power of outside forces. At another extreme naturalists Stephen Crane and Frank Norris who supported ideas of Emile Zola and the determinism movement. Naturalists argued that individuals have no choice because a person's life is dictated by heredity and external enviornment.
- Impact of the 13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.- Impact of the Emancipation Proclamation/Emancipation Proclamation
The controversial decison issused by the executive order did not free slaves of the border states. In West Virginia, only slaves in Jefferson Couny were freed. In the case of Union-occupied CSA states, other than Tennessee, slaves were freed immediately. Slaves in the eastern North Carolina, Mississippi Valley, northern Alamaba, Shenandoah Valley, Arkansas, Georgia, and South Carolina benefited from the declaration and subsequent allotment of land to newly freed slaves. In 1862, the Congress declaration highlighted compensation to slave owners who 'released' their slaves from bondage. This led to a number of slave owners grabbing the opprunity and freeing the slaves in a number of United States territories.- Realism
In most people's minds, years following the Civil War symbolized a time of healing and rebuilding. A literary civil war raged on between the camps of romantics and the realists and later, the naturalists. People waged verbal battles over the way that fictinal characters were presentedin relation to the external world. These american realists believed that humanity's freedom of choice was limited by power of outside forces. At another extreme naturalists Stephen Crane and Frank Norris who supported ideas of Emile Zola and the determinism movement. Naturalists argued that individuals have no choice because a person's life is dictated by heredity and external enviornment.