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Hal Ickes |
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Tough on South, Blacks
rights, Congress Rec., National |
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| Hal Ickes is a black journalist and activist. His
first memories were of the call of David Walker for a slave uprising. His first hero was
Frederick Douglass. During the war, he fought in an all-black regiment as a
non-commissioned officer under Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Now that the war is over, he
feels that the South should pay the full price for the sins of slavery and waging a war to
defend it. He believes that only a few Southerners, those who could take an oath that they
didn't support the Confederacy in the past, should be able to vote and no Southern state
should be readmitted until a large majority of the white people of the state accept the 13th
amendment. In addition, Ickes believes that freedmen should receive lands taken away from
Confederate leaders and that the vote and education should be open to freedmen in exactly
the same way they are to whites. If the South doesn’t like it, the North should keep
the military there. The South is a conquered province, they committed suicide by seceding
from the union. It is up to Congress to decide what will happen to them. |
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Readings based on Beliefs: |
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Belief 2 - Difficult for the
South to get back into the Union and pardons should be difficult to secure |
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Belief 3 - Freedmen and free
blacks should receive substantial political, economic and social rights |
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Belief 5 - Congress should
control Reconstruction |
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Belief 7 - Reconstruction
should be organized and implemented on a national level |
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