By 1860, 44 percent of Florida’s population was slaves.[8] The ex-slave Frank Berry, who was considered a black Seminole with African heritage, went into detail upon race relations of blacks and whites before and after the emancipation, “Even in slavery we were treated better than we are now by the white people… Even the white people didn’t kill Negroes then as they do now.”[9] African Americans were incredibly discriminated against by Southerns after the emancipation. The confederates were filled with hatred towards blacks because they lost the war and slave owners lost their slaves. Frank Berry’s quote infers the reasoning behind the formation of the Ku Klux Klan and other hatred groups. Although blacks finally received their freedom just after the emancipation, they were still being discriminated against, and hated more than ever. It seems clear there is an immense amount of validity to Governor Crist’s proposal for sorrow and reparation money towards descendents of slaves because racism seems to have even increased after the emancipation. Race relations in American can be interpreted as better than ever, or still in need of dire progress. American history can never forget what happened within the slave systems, but citizens will need to forgive in order to improve race relations.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 09:03:33 +0000
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