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英文高水准者进!读文章写英文感想~400字~

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英文高水准者进!读文章写英文感想~400字~
要感想~不是翻译!400字即可.
General Order #3
"The people are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States,all slaves are free.This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property,between former masters and slaves,and the connection heretofore existing between them,become that between employer and hired labor.The freed are advised to remain at their present homes,and work for wages.They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts; and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."
Read by Major General Gordon Granger,Galveston Texas,June 19th,1865
On June 19,1865 in the city of Galveston Major General Gordan Granger declared the institution of slavery dead in the state,setting off joyous demonstrations by freedmen and originating the annual "Juneteenth" celebration,which commemorates the freeing of the blacks in Texas.
However,declaring slaves free didn't do much to help them.He merely changed the connections between them from master and slave to employer and hired work,doing little for their civil rights.The african-american population still had to endure another hundred years of opression and stereotypical treatment before Martin Luther King Jr.finally set them free in the Civil Rights Movement of 1965.Although the major general calls it "an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property",the former slaves could not possibly receive the same treatment as the white.For one thing,they have no property to speak of.And since they were "advised to remain at their present homes,and work for wages",how much they earn for their labor is still left to the former slave masters to decide,which is low.But because the state will not support idleness,the low wages will just have to do for the newly freed slaves.The north has always boasted freedom and job opportunities for the blacks,but when industry fails and factories start closing,they are no better off than the southern farmers.Also,the fact that blacks could not collect at military posts is quite for those who could not find other fitting jobs.
All in all,this declaration is more of a joke than anything.It does nothing more than change a name,from slave to employee.But the meager wages they earn and the high price they have to pay for sustaining themselves have made their conditions no better,if not worse,than the times of slavery.