My favorite paragraph/line of this chapter was on page 19, where Theodore Roosevelt comments on the battle and says of the African-Americans who fought, "One band had in its formation something that was curiously pathetic. It was composed of free men of color, who had gathered to defend the land which kept the men of their race in slavery.... Surely there was never a stranger instance than this of the irony of fate." Keep in mind that in WWI and WWII, black men also fought (as did the sons of interned Japanese). In contrast, many black Americans were refusing to go to Vietnam and fight, a position with which many black leaders (MLK, Malcolm X) agreed. Why do you think men fought for a country that kept their brethren enslaved/segregated? Are they right to fight or should they protest by not fighting?
In this chapter, Ambrose says that Andrew Jackson "had contempt for almost anyone who was not a white American" yet, in the Battle of New Orleans, he "put together the first multiracial arms, one that stands as a model to today's American armed forces." Why do you think Jackson did this? How do you think he rationalized it in his mind?
My favorite paragraph/line of this chapter was on page 19, where Theodore Roosevelt comments on the battle and says of the African-Americans who fought, "One band had in its formation something that was curiously pathetic. It was composed of free men of color, who had gathered to defend the land which kept the men of their race in slavery.... Surely there was never a stranger instance than this of the irony of fate." Keep in mind that in WWI and WWII, black men also fought (as did the sons of interned Japanese). In contrast, many black Americans were refusing to go to Vietnam and fight, a position with which many black leaders (MLK, Malcolm X) agreed. Why do you think men fought for a country that kept their brethren enslaved/segregated? Are they right to fight or should they protest by not fighting?
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Andrew
4/9/2010 10:49:23 am
1. He probably just thought since we need the people then everyone and anyone can be in this army. He needed a big army, and fast so he made it multi-racial.
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Andreina
4/9/2010 11:39:52 am
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Regina
4/14/2010 11:56:51 am
1. I was thinking that maybe he wanted to get rid of the African Americans but then how would they work on the plantations? The only thing that can really make sense is that he probably thought they were better off at war than being slaves. So maybe he thought in his mind that he was doing them a favor.
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Regina
4/14/2010 12:10:43 pm
My favorite line was - Natives of different states, acting together, for the first time, in this camp, differing in habits and in language have reaped the fruits of an honourable union. This quote basically summed up the whole chapter.
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Katherine
4/18/2010 01:23:46 am
1. The reason I think that Andrew Jackson did this was because he had no other option. The author himself mentions that Andrew Jackson was a racist man. If you think about it when you need people to fight in a war, you won't even care anymore about how you felt about them you just know that you need people to fight for you and that's it. That is really the only answer I find for why he would make a multiracial arms.
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Justin
4/19/2010 03:20:38 am
1. I agree with Andrew on why Andrew Jackson did this. If you need to
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Randy
4/25/2010 12:12:32 pm
1. Andrew Jackson did what he did so he can build a big army for the greater advantage. The slaves viewed it as something different and hoped to be freed for their services at the war. Andrew Jackson thought the more people, the better the chances of winning. He probably didn't care much for the lives of the slaves.
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