Americans were trading guns, gunpowder, cloth, breads, pots and liquor in exchange for human lives. The term slave trade only emphasizes one viewpoint of the whole phenomenon and gives only a brief and biased description. The next term, forced migration, gives the viewpoint of Africans. ... The three terms used to describe the African Slave Trade; slave trade, forced migration and genocide, when looked at separately do not give a concise representation of what went on for so many hundreds of years. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Douglass educates himself and re-creates who he is throughout his life; so much so that in the end when he gives his speeches, people cannot believe he was ever a slave. ... Nor did he want his slaves to provide first-hand evidence against his prettified picture of slavery, which would give the abolitionists more rhetorical ammunition against him. ... During errands, he bribed poor white boys with bread to give him short lessons. ... Douglass' direct style gives him an air of great credibility, implying that he did not exaggerate the suffering he describes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He says that every man should have the right to eat the bread meaning that the declaration states all men are created equal yet makes it clear in is 4th debate that the white race is the almighty and makes African Americans look like peasants. ... This also gives the knowledge that being anti-slavery has nothing to do with racism and Lincoln himself could undoubtedly be prejudice. ... He told them that it was better for all races to give up on each other and stay separated.8 Overall, Abraham Lincoln was a racist because he believed that the African American race was so different from the w...

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• Grade Level: High School

Unfortunately, giving up belongings is the only thing he could do to cure his urge to learn. ... Although reading wasn't against the law for Richard, he still had to give away money and steal food to succeed like Frederick. ... "My life as a Negro in America had led me to feel that the problem of human unity was more important that bread, more important than physical living itself; for I felt that without a common bond uniting men...there could be no living worthy of being called human"" (Wright 260). ...

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Douglass gave bread to white children for lessons. ... Ancestors of blacks didn't have these privileges to attempt to be successful so they would have something to give to their children. ... Douglass's journey taught American's never to give up. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Uncle Tom's Cabin Throughout the colonial period and after American Revolution, most Americans accepted slavery as a normal and inevitable aspect of their affairs. It became more and more confined, as a working institution, to the southern states. In the North West the pressure for free land was greatest, especially during the downswing of cycles when pressure on the farming community was acute. The South was generally opposed to free land, fearing that it would upset the balance between the number of free and slave states. Slavery in South America was closely connected to rac...

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• Grade Level: High School

Douglas also tries to explain what happens to the slaves that try to run away or became "Unmanageable, " basically they were whipped and shipped to Baltimore to be sold to slave traders as a "Warning to the other slaves. " In this chapter Douglass also tells his readers about the food and clothing that was given away to the slaves: "children from seven to ten years old, of both sexes, almost naked, were seen all seasons of the year. " Some slaves didn't have a bed and their masters would only give them a blanket, slaves had to work long hours sometimes without dinner and they were all dep...

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• Grade Level: High School