The Most Sacred Right
Observation:
1. I learned that the more people are refused or denied their right to vote, people will stop
believing in the improvement of society and the result is a dead democracy. When you
depend solely on the people of society for political choices there are demands you have to
follow to keep them pleased but shutting them out completely results in retaliation or no
participation. Since blacks were not given the right to vote initially all they could do was
speak on the topic and influence others until they were given a seat at the table and that’s
what Frederick Douglass did. The right to vote is a way to protect yourself and without it
during this period of history you were left wide open to the attacks of anyone who
believed blacks didn’t have a place in the world of politics.
2. In order to spread the republican party into the South republicans had to support and
advocate black men's right to vote. With the Civil War tearing the US into North and
South there could only be one true victor for American to continue to exist. The North
takes charge by adding black men to their cause giving them yet another upper hand. The
right to vote becomes the goal of radical republican reconstruction plans as soon as the
civil war is over. Douglass was already standing up for blacks' right to vote and was the
perfect asset to the North. But after the election of 1868, once black men had gained this
right, the country had reverted back to it’s old way and the right to vote for black men
was under attack.
3. This podcast refreshed my understanding that in a democracy, when citizens can’t vote,
we get a corrupt nation. When listening to one side of an argument you're compelled to
think that that person must be right but hearing out only one race during the mid 1800s
didn’t do the nation any good especially because they were recovering from a war.
Fredrick Douglass would constantly hint at or state that natural rights are like the air you
breathe. The right to vote, in his opinion, was the most sacred of all. By catching America
at one of it’s low points Douglass was able to take part in saving the US from folding in
on itself by giving black men the right to vote.
Questions:
1. In the speech <What the Black Man Wants= why was the quote/statement <I hold that
women as well as men have the right to vote= made by Douglass too early for his time?
What still needs to be gained for women to have this right? Were their women who tried
to vote during Fredrick Douglass’s time? Did white and black women care to even vote?
Was there more of a drive for black women because of how much their race had been
suppressed? Or did white women want a spot to vote more than black women because
they were limited to what their husband wanted for ages?
2. In the 1868 election the KKK had become more apparent because of black men adding to
the republican side. Was there any way to avoid the upbringing of the KKK? If the
democrats won the 1868 election would there have been less deaths in the black
Observation:
1. I learned that the more people are refused or denied their right to vote, people will stop
believing in the improvement of society and the result is a dead democracy. When you
depend solely on the people of society for political choices there are demands you have to
follow to keep them pleased but shutting them out completely results in retaliation or no
participation. Since blacks were not given the right to vote initially all they could do was
speak on the topic and influence others until they were given a seat at the table and that’s
what Frederick Douglass did. The right to vote is a way to protect yourself and without it
during this period of history you were left wide open to the attacks of anyone who
believed blacks didn’t have a place in the world of politics.
2. In order to spread the republican party into the South republicans had to support and
advocate black men's right to vote. With the Civil War tearing the US into North and
South there could only be one true victor for American to continue to exist. The North
takes charge by adding black men to their cause giving them yet another upper hand. The
right to vote becomes the goal of radical republican reconstruction plans as soon as the
civil war is over. Douglass was already standing up for blacks' right to vote and was the
perfect asset to the North. But after the election of 1868, once black men had gained this
right, the country had reverted back to it’s old way and the right to vote for black men
was under attack.
3. This podcast refreshed my understanding that in a democracy, when citizens can’t vote,
we get a corrupt nation. When listening to one side of an argument you're compelled to
think that that person must be right but hearing out only one race during the mid 1800s
didn’t do the nation any good especially because they were recovering from a war.
Fredrick Douglass would constantly hint at or state that natural rights are like the air you
breathe. The right to vote, in his opinion, was the most sacred of all. By catching America
at one of it’s low points Douglass was able to take part in saving the US from folding in
on itself by giving black men the right to vote.
Questions:
1. In the speech <What the Black Man Wants= why was the quote/statement <I hold that
women as well as men have the right to vote= made by Douglass too early for his time?
What still needs to be gained for women to have this right? Were their women who tried
to vote during Fredrick Douglass’s time? Did white and black women care to even vote?
Was there more of a drive for black women because of how much their race had been
suppressed? Or did white women want a spot to vote more than black women because
they were limited to what their husband wanted for ages?
2. In the 1868 election the KKK had become more apparent because of black men adding to
the republican side. Was there any way to avoid the upbringing of the KKK? If the
democrats won the 1868 election would there have been less deaths in the black
