Through out the video facts are shown to support the fact that blacks were not treated as human beings. ... His talents are unheard in the slave race, which was full of illiterate, uneducated blacks. ... While on his own as a boy, Douglas purchased a book and studied its speeches and articles. ... Frederick Douglas was uneducated, was never officially taught how to read, or given instructions and yet he had the God given gift to produce moving speeches and first-rate novels. ... Blacks everywhere owe Frederick Douglas for his ingenious ways to abolish slavery. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although he reviles against the black professor, he is indeed embarrassing himself because he knows that the black professor has better ability to do things that he cannot do. ... One of the significant characters in Twain's novel, a runaway slave Jim plays an important role by representing the humanity of black people even though his social status is lower than any one else in the story. ... Twain also uses Huck, the protagonist of his novel to criticize the prejudiced attitudes of white people towards black people. Grown up as a typical white boy, Huck never doubts the fact that Blacks ...

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Huck Finn has been everything from the rise of American literature to a racist novel. ... In his novel, Twain uses the "n-word" in casual dialogue "as a way to underscore the chilling truth about the old South, that it was a society where perfectly "nice" people didn't consider the death of a black person worth their notice.... Huck Finn allows us to see the views of black people from a white, southern boy. ... " Huck wasn't happy about having to apologize to a black man, but he did it anyways. ... " (Fishkin) Huck Finn uses the "n-word" o...

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• Grade Level: High School

Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel about his African ancestors, Roots followed several generations in the lives of a slave family. ... Binta then gives birth to a boy that brings great joy to the whole family that was present. ... The mother decides to call him baby boy till the Omaru decides on the name in eight days. Omaru asks the chief weather to name the boy based on a person or a thing. ... He then finds out that he would be sailing a new ship called the Lord Liganear that would have a cargo consisting mostly of black slaves. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines is a great novel and one book that I will not soon forget. ... Lighter-skinned blacks in this story act superior to darker-skinned blacks. ... Symbolism is also present in Gaines" novel. ... A third and less apparent symbol in this story is a flint used by a young boy named Ned. ... The best way I could sum up my feelings on this novel would be in a quote by Frederick Douglas, "Without a struggle, there can be no progress."...

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Haley buys more slaves- a woman named Lucy and her ten-month old baby boy. ... "Her aim had been to inspire voluntary emancipation by compellingly demonstrating the evil and unchristian nature of slavery" (1672); "As the Civil War approached, Stowe ceased to write on behalf of abolitionism and turned to novels of New England culture and history." ... There are some points emphasized in the period introductions which I find evident in the text includes: "Harriet Beecher Stowe compellingly described the way rigid Calvinism could cripple young minds"(970); "Some of the writers of this period liv...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: The most powerful of all abolitionists propoganda was Hariiet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," published as a book in 1852. ... He became an abolitionist when, as a young boy, he saw a good friend, a young, black slave, of his beaten with a piece of metal by his owner. ... He and his wife agreed to raise a black youth as one of their own. ... Brown moved to the black community of North Elba, New York, in 1849. ... On October 16, 1859, he set his plan to action when he and 21 other men -- 5 blacks and 16 whites -- raided the federal arsenal at Harper...

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• Grade Level: High School

The story starts out with a young boy by the name of Jessie Bollier a thirteen year old southern white boy who plays his fiddle for pennies at the dock. ... They finally let him loose but the dark sea and black sky made the thought of an escape was impossible. ... The boy and Jessie got acquainted. ... The boy's name was Ras. ... Just then they were approached by a black man who was a runaway slave. ...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us that family can prevail in her fictional novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. These three writers shared one common meaning in their writing, that is, slaveholders tried to destroy the black family to make the slaves unfeeling and cold people so they (slaveholders) could obtain their riches without paying for the labor. ... For now this young boy was alone is the world of slavery. ... This quote is an example of boy whose affections for his mother were forever destroyed because of the broken bond of mother and son at an early age. ... Stowe is showing the importa...

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It is noted several times that in the eye of the law, blacks are not considered men, but things. ... (Chapter 24) Frequently in the novel the issue is raised . ... The novel also dexterously demonstrates the absurdities and contradictions of slavery. ... Another topic often addressed in the novel is exclusion of blacks in the law and the injustice of the entire condition. ... Against, his wife's wishes, he decides to sell Uncle Tom and a boy named Harry. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Stowe intended to help America realize the inhumanity of slavery and the pain it brought upon African-Americans by writing a melodramatic novel. She despised the South for practicing slavery and the North as well for their prejudice against blacks. ... He is a "large, broad-chested, powerfully-made man, of a full glossy black, and a face whose truly African feature [are] characterized by and expression of grave and steady good sense, united with much kindliness and benevolence-(Stowe 24). By her description of Tom, Stowe contradicts the common stereotype that blacks are savages and inhumane by...

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