Blog #7

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1. What divided the women of the North and South in the years immediately before and during the Civil War?



The North and South women were divided before and during the Civil War, because of slavery. As in now that slavery was being abolished from the South. Southern women were trying to get used to the idea of running things on their own. As in they did not have anymore slaves to do the chores of the house and land for them. In the North the women were getting together to start fighting for equality. They would pursue higher education. The other reasons for the women to be divided was because the slaves were trying to get freedom. This caused a division between the southern and northern women. The northern women were for the slaves to get freedom. The southern women were against the slaves to get freedom.



2. What impact did the emergence of the “New South” have on women?



The impact that the emergence of the "New South" had on women was more for the black women. Because now that they had freedom, they could choose what job they wanted to do. They had their own home. They got paid for their services. Also they were free to choose anything they wanted for their lives and not have owners who made the choices for them. So this was viewed as a good thing by the black women. But on the other hand this was viewed as a bad thing by the white southern women. The reason it was viewed as a bad thing by the white southern women was because, now there was no one to do work that the slaves used to do. If they wanted people to do those works they had to pay them to do it. So now the white southerners were forced to find a way to get workers to do the jobs that the slaves did but at the same time not to pay to much for their services.



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1. What were the underlying tensions and larger conflicts that led to the lynching of Thomas Moss?



The underlying tensions that led to the lynching of Thomas Moss was that the whites did not want any blacks to have their own businesses. The larger conflicts that led to the lynching of Thomas Moss was that his grocery store was competing with a white man's grocery store.
Since the white man not only did not want to have competition in his line of work. He also had a problem with black people. So he got his advantage when some kids both white and black were playing a game and the white kids lost. So now the white people started a rumor saying
how they were going to go to Moss's store and steal and destroy everything. When Moss and his partners heard this they put guards at the store. When the time came for the white men to steal and destroy Moss's store. The guards shot at them. So now that all the black men were in jail, the white man went to the jail and identified Moss and his other partners as the one's who were guilty. That is how Moss was lynched. That is also how the white man was able to get rid of not only his competition but some black men who he hated.



2. What was the prevailing opinion about lynching that Wells was determined to challenge?


Wells was determined to challenge the opinion that these men were lynched because they either killed a white man or raped white women. She showed that there was no proof that those allegations were true. She was exiled from her home after she published that article. The reason
for that was that she hit to close to the truth. That even though white men are constantly having sex with and raping black women and get away with it. While a black man has sex with a white women and he is lynched. She was also basically saying that the lynchings were happening to
tell the black men to stay away from the white women. Also because the white men did not like the idea of thinking that the white women were immoral or adulteresses instead they would prefer thinking that the black man raped their white woman.



3. What did Wells see as the relationship between the long history of white men raping black women and the charges against black men of raping white women?



Wells thought that the relationship between the long history of white men raping black women and the charges against black men of raping white women as hypocritical. As in while they are doing the things that they are charging against the black men. But they are not getting
punished, while the black men are being killed. She also thinks that this was a way for the white men to have some power over the black men. As in since the black men were considered as free and citizens. Also that they were considered equals. This did not go so well with the white
men who did not think that black men should be free, a citizen, or be even remotely considered an equal to a white man. So they thought of ways that they can make the black men still feel inferior and scared of the white men.