Robert Kaczorowski To Begin The Nation Anew Analysis

“In 1857, the highest court in the United States held that blacks in America possessed no rights, could never become citizens of the United States, and that Congress was powerless to abolish slavery.” (Kaczorowski, p. 45) Was this true? Could slavery really never be abolished? In his article “To Begin the Nation Anew: Congress, Citizenship, and Civil Rights after the Civil War”, Robert J. Kaczorowski shows the process of the abolishing of slavery in the United States. Kaczorowski discussed the reactions of the Republicans, Democrats, and the Federal Judges on the major political issues of the Civil War, specifically: slavery, civil rights, and who had authority to enforce a solution? While providing information on these topics, he describes the different roles of 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, and the Civil Rights Bill of 1866, some of the many decisions that helped form an exceptional nation.
Slaves in America did not desire the rights they deserved as “blacks”, but wanted the same liberties, citizenship, and respect received by whites. The governmental parties did not agree during the Civil War controversies. For example, the Republicans were in favor of the Union and emancipation, while the Democrats were for the Confederate secessions and slavery. In 1866, Congress and Northern States overcame the conflicts and achieved precisely what the Supreme Court had declared was impossible: the 13th Amendment. An amendment that ultimately abolished slavery throughout the whole United States, the 13th Amendment solved the slave