South Carolina Essays (Examples)
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Harpers Ferry Raid
… to the 18th. Robert E. Lee, ironically, was the commander in charge of retaking the arsenal; Lee would be the commander of the south Army just a year and a half later. Other future Confederates assisting in the recapturing of Harpers Ferry from the insurrectionist Brown and … nation. Even in the U.S. Senate violence had broken out when in 1856 the Republican Senator Charles Sumner had viciously ridiculed the pro-slavery south carolina Democratic Senator Andrew Butler. Butler’s cousin in defense of Andrew’s honor attacked Sumner with a cane on the Senate floor and nearly killed … Senator Andrew Butler. Butler’s cousin in defense of Andrew’s honor attacked Sumner with a cane on the Senate floor and nearly killed him. south Democrats applauded while northerners viewed the south as tyrannical (Hoffer).
Clearly, violence then was in the air if the men in the U.S. government were willing to resort……
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Works Cited
Barney, William L. "Brown, John". The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Student Companion. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2001.
Furnas, J. C. The Road to Harpers Ferry. New York, William Sloane Associates, 1959.
Hoffer, Williamjames Hull. The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Horwitz, Tony. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War. Henry Holt and Company, 2011.
McGlone, Robert E. John Brown's War against Slavery. Cambridge, CUP, 2009.
Smith, Ted A., Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015.
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Al Sharpton Covid 19
… a new campaign a couple of days ago, where it will concentrate on bringing about equity, fairness and justice to black communities in south carolina? What are some of the inequities, injustice and unfairness that you’re seeing with respect to COVID-19 in black communities?
2. The National Action ……
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Pendrick, S. (2020) The National Action Network announces COVID-19 campaign focused on equity. Live 5 WCSC. Retrieved May 3, 2020 from https://www.live5news.com/2020/05/02/national-action-network-announces-covid-campaign-focused-equity/
National Action Network (2020) NAN youth huddle goes virtual, beginning with a COVID-19 conversation series. National Action Network. Retrieved May 3, 2020 from https://nationalactionnetwork.net/newnews/nan-youth-huddle-goes-virtual-beginning-with-a-covid-19-conversation-series/
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Solitary Confinement And Mental Health Issues In Corrections
...South carolina Functions, Issues, and Objectives in Corrections
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The functions of the historical state correctional system have changed since the founding of the nation more than 200 years ago. The Jacksonian Era, the Era of Reconstruction and the Progressive Era on up to the reform of the 1970s all effected different changes to the function—i.e., the goals and activities—of the correctional system. Pennsylvania’s state correctional system was the first to introduce solitary confinement as a way of removing the deviant element from society. This was part of William Penn’s attempt at social reform, a fundamental characteristic of his Quaker ideals (Fantel, 1974). The goal of Penn’s plan was to promote moral rehabilitation and it was believed that through the inmate’s lengthy time alone to reflect on his misdeeds he would begin to develop the moral resolve to reform himself and become a better contributing member of society. Today, solitary confinement is……
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Clemmer, D. (1940). The prison community. New Braunfels, TX: Christopher Publishing House.
Compton, M. T., Anderson, S., Broussard, B., Ellis, S., Halpern, B., Pauselli, L., . . .Johnson, M. (2017). A potential new form of jail diversion and reconnection to mental health services: II. Demonstration of feasibility. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 35(5–6), 492–500. doi:10.1002/bsl.2319
Corrections Arizona Department. (2020). Retrieved from https://corrections.az.gov/location/110/kingman
Dryburgh, M. (2009). Policy implications of whistle-blowing: The case of Corcoran State Prison. Public Integrity, 11(2): 155-170.
Fantel, H. (1974). William Penn: Apostle of Dissent. NY: William Morrow & Co. Florida Department of Corrections. (2020). Retrieved from
https://twitter.com/FL_Corrections/status/1234884340296843266
Hensley, J. & Rough, G. (2011). Kingman prison still under scrutiny. Retrieved from http://archive.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/01/30/20110130kingman-prison-still-under-scrutiny0130.html
HIV among Incarcerated Populations. (2015). CDC. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/correctional.html
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Indian Removal Act 1830
… that did not suit their lifestyle or their culture. Many suffered and died during the march on the Trail of Tears from the south states to Oregon. Though Jackson may have had good intentions at the time, the removal can now be viewed as an American tragedy … treaties with the Indian tribes. Jackson did not see them as being nations but rather as being unwanted residents on land that the south could use. Jackson wanted to use the military to remove the Indians and give their land in the south to the south states. He was willing to divide the land west of the Mississippi up into territories where the Indians could go to live. That … to be a death march or an exile to a small and useless patch of land. Jackson’s aim, however, was to fortify the south—and he did not consider the effect of……
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Primary Sources
Crockett, Davy, “On the removal of the Cherokees, 1834,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/spotlight-primary-source/davy-crockett-removal-cherokees-1834
“The Magnetic Telegraph.” Ladies’ Repository 10(1850): 61-62. O’Sullivan, John. “Annexation.” United States Magazine and Democratic Review, vol.17, no. 1 (July-August 1845): 5-10.
Sevier, John. Letter to the Cherokee. DPLA. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/cherokee-removal-and-the-trail-of-tears/sources/1500
Secondary Sources
Brown-Rice, Kathleen. "Examining the Theory of Historical Trauma Among Native Americans." Professional Counselor 3, no. 3 (2013).
Cave, Alfred A. "Abuse of power: Andrew Jackson and the Indian removal act of 1830." The Historian 65, no. 6 (2003): 1330-1353.
Cherokee Preservation Foundation. “About the Eastern Band.” Cherokee Preservation, 2010. http://cherokeepreservation.org/who-we-are/about-the-ebci/
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Blacks And The Reconstruction
… rockier start than the deceased president would have hoped to have seen. Reconstruction was supposed to be a new dawn of brotherhood; the south was to be forgiven, and blacks were supposed to be equal. What had been razed to the ground during Sherman’s March to the … come if the federal government passed laws to protect the newly freed former slaves and brought the law of the North into the south. What happened, however, was something else entirely. The spirit of the south continued on: the Ku Klux Klan arose from the ashes of Sherman’s March. Jim Crow laws reigned where Douglass had hoped to see … a failure of the federal government to oversee effectively the Era of Reconstruction and to eradicate the racist doctrines and organizations of the south.
President Johnson essentially gave the south a free hand in determining how the Reconstruction Lincoln had envisioned……
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A&E. “Carpetbaggers and Scalawags.” History, 2018. https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/carpetbaggers-and-scalawags
Douglass, Frederick. “Reconstruction.” The Atlantic, 1866. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1866/12/reconstruction/304561/
Guelzo, Allen. Reconstruction Didn\\\\'t Fail. It Was Overthrown. Time, 2018. http://time.com/5256940/reconstruction-failure-excerpt/
McBride, Alex. “Plessy v. Ferguson.” Thirteen, 2007. https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/supremecourt/antebellum/landmark_plessy.html
Johnson, Andrew. “A Proclamation.” Digital History, 1865. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/reconstruction/section4/section4_pardon1.html
Lincoln, Abraham. Second Inaugural Address, 1865. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lincoln2.asp
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How Religious Beliefs Affected Colonial Social Structure In America
… Penn, whose father had held ties with the King of England (Fantel). The Puritans were in New England. Baptists established themselves in the south. Catholics had been in the Northern territories and in the south well before the Protestant surge, and they also established the first Catholic state in Maryland—before it was later taken over by Protestants who … the evils of slavery. They couched their rhetoric in religious doctrines, though each used different methods of speaking. Weld was an educated white south woman of status—i.e., she came from a land-owning family. Truth was a former slave. Weld spoke the language of privilege—but even as a ……
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Fantel, Hans. William Penn: Apostle of Dissent. NY: William Morrow & Co., 1974.
Graham, Michael. "Posish Plots: Protestant Fears in Early Colonial Maryland, 1676-1689." The Catholic historical review 79.2 (1993): 197-216.
Holton, W. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Laux, John. Church History. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1933.
Melville, Herman. Clarel. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005201424&view=1up&seq=9
Milder, R. Herman Melville. New York: Columbia University Press,1988.
Pyle, Ralph E., and James D. Davidson. "The origins of religious stratification in colonial America." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42.1 (2003): 57-75.
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