Our warm-up was a picture of black people being hanged in front of a white crowd. This was after the Civil War and the reconstruction was beginning. It seemed that the white people didn't care for the reconstruction of the Civil War. You would think that they would change their ways about black people but they didn't. They decided the best way to handle it was to hang the freed slaves. This kind of thought still exists today but in a different matter. Other nationalities are not excepted now and probably never will be.
Today in class we talked about the reconstructions of the civil war. Well not really talked, we did an activity on reconstructions of the Civil War. I thought it was very interesting. I had to be a young, poor, white woman who lived in the south, was unemployed, and didn't own any slaves, so my decision was to stay home or to move up north, live a better life, and get a job.
I thought my life was horrible. But then, after listening to other people's stories my life wasn't bad. We had people that lost everything. We had people that lost their slaves, families, life's fortunes that made felt about real life because people are all different and go through tribulations in life as my Grandmother always said "KEEP LIVIN." As we listened to more people it seemed more interesting.
Then, we got in colored groups. Where as the people we were suppose to be playing, thought about Reconstruction the Civil War in their point of view. This was also interesting because we came from different parts of the country. Some were from the north and was rich and others were poor as in the south, the only thing we could connect to was the hurt we felt from the civil war. Some of us owned slaves, some of us never thought of having slaves. Which made the situation harder to solve because we wanted different things. Most things were compromised.
After this class I thought wow. How hard must it had been to reconstruct the north and the south. It is amazing how it was done. Because here we are as one country, but we still don't get along. I don't think that will ever change. Even though the laws and economic issues changed. Well here you go my thoughts about what we did in class today. Hope you had fun time reading my blog about the reconstruction about the Civil War. lol
