1831, by Louis P. Masur Essay

This book was compose by Masur Louis P. who described 1831 as the year of the eclipse that had so some(prenominal) omens that tell that the American society was completely changed. E real aspect of vivification including the political, social, economic and cultural all underwent a metamorphosis that brought about change. In that year, foreigners visited America and they described it as a year where there was a possibility of a civil war occurring in America delinquent to the galore(postnominal) negative things that were happening then.An English visitor Frances Trollope felt very disappointed with how America had gone about to deal with slavery and he charge criticized the vehement expressions of insane and hypocritical zeal as it was preached by the preachers. The writer states that most of the visitors had no intentions of talking about the institution of slavery, merely they could not turn a blind eye to it and their writings helped to constrain controversy on slavery in America and therefore move pressure to allow the issue to be addressed (Louis 2008).Some of the visitors who helped to cast the institution of slavery included Henry Tudor, Thomas Hamilton, James Boardman and Ales de Tocqueville. The issues that defy been described in this book are based on quadruplet thematic chapters slaverly and its abolition, morality and politics, state and nation and finally, the issue of changing applied science with the use of machines and nature (Louis 2008).In the same year, there was a quid of violence and rebellions over slavery, tariffs and religious revivalism over the nation. He talks of a revolution that was light-emitting diode by Nat Turner who he describes like a very intelligent, charismatic and religious leader. He rebelled against slavery and the germities even hunted him for questioning where he confessed about having taken place and led the rebellion.His actions brought a lot of attention towards America and it was at this point it wa s think that the slaves were not loyal and content, that slavery was not benign as it was supposition to be and that trying to control the population through terror groups was not the way out. The outspoken nature of Nat Turner inspired many of the abolitionists who do calls for emancipation of slaves. There were unresolved tensions between the states and the nations rights, competing erotic love for religion and politics. The debate on the emancipation of slaves has alike been described where the mass from the north expected it to be a slow and gradual process, exclusively the batch from the south saw it as a necessary evil.Masur P.L stated that the way to deal with the problem was to set up a small town in West Africa as they believed that the Africa Americas were helpless and hopeless pot who could not be able to rise above their conditions and state of living. It was described as the year when the entropyern oligarchy quit the possibility of doing away with slavery an d William place demanded that there would be abolition of some peculiar institutions. His news piece, the liberator, was meant to make people see the evils of the day which by then they did not see. The nullification crisis and the Indian removal act further do the sectional differences and with the changes in engineering science it made dramatic changes in Americas relationship with the land. The author describes the American people as people who were in love with engineering and therefore referred to them as the locomotive people (Louis 2008).The introduction of steamboats, railroads and the mechanized reapers made people very rich because of the profits that were being made. The author also describes the protestant missionaries as the people who worked on behalf of the Cherokees. They held a large number of slaves yet thirty years later they were barely mentioned and the Cherokees fought on the boldness of the confederacy supporting the very people who had thrown them out of their heritable land and nobody dared to raise their voice against it.Policies that were made by Andrew capital of Mississippi against the Cherokee erase the last hopes of seeing the India as being autonomous. It was thought that religion would hold the nation together and help to counter their forces of disunity caused by the capacious and large territory occupied, the numerous and the very increasing high population, the novelty of the local interests ,the power of selfishness and the feeling of sensational jealousy and hate had prevailed amongst the people of America.The religious revivalism that swept the agricultural inspired the working class to agitate. It gave an acumen in the idea of enthusiasms for religion as it was with even the tent meetings that were purportedly supposed to bring about improve of the individual together with the reform of the society at large. It also indicates the surprising rise of political movements more than(prenominal) as the anti mason s which was Americas third party that invented the presidential nominating convention. The Andrew administration threatened to unravel and dissent the economic future of the country (Louis 2008). In conclusion, the author not only writes about the negative issues that moved(p) America but he also has intellectual pleasure that helps to tanginess the hypocrisies of the day by stating that although the Turners revolt saw many white many people maimed and killed, at least they were happy because women were never raped.He goes on to say that they finally saw the need to keep in control the terror gangs and groups and began to give a doctrine that slavery was hence benign and that the enslaved were loyal, content and more satisfied than it was previously believed. As much as people from the north and those from the south were outraged by William forts radical newspaper, their opposition against it only helped to popularize and circulate the paper which has today become one of the larg est selling papers today. For the people from South Carolina, they took pride in the doctrine of nullification as it meant that they could resist the national Government to interfere with slavery.ReferencesLouis, Masur P. 1831 Year of Eclipse .United States Barnes and noble.com lnc, 2008.