In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad reverses the tradition by using the color of white as a symbol for darkness and mystery. ... Every human has dark sides, and Marlow is fascinated in his discovery of his own dark side. ... Ironically, the blacks are with less darkness and evil. ... Death silently turns everything white. ... After he has perceived what evil is in Africa, Marlow sees that the past and death everywhere that is white. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad reverses the tradition by using the color of white as a symbol for darkness and mystery. ... Every human has dark sides, and Marlow is fascinated in his discovery of his own dark side. ... Ironically, the blacks are with less darkness and evil. ... Death silently turns everything white. ... After he has perceived what evil is in Africa, Marlow sees that the past and death everywhere that is white. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Lighter-skinned blacks in this story act superior to darker-skinned blacks. ... She teaches at the local school to a group of "common blacks," as they are called because they"re skin is darker. ... The flint can be used to symbolize the light within Ned after his mother's death. Witnessing her death as well as many other injustices in his time, Ned uses the "light" within him to seek out moral justice and fight oppression. ... His death is a prime example of how the society in which he lives in not only oppresses blacks, but others as well. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The theme of colonialism is present before anyone of the so called 'dark races' appears: right from Jane's childhood at Gateshead. ... Susan Meyer continues saying 'the novel compares the rebellious Jane, without much differentiation between them, to an entire array of 'dark races', something that shows the parallels between the British class system and treatment of foreignness. ... It is almost like her alter ego, Bertha, lives inside her as the spirit of change, so when she falls to her death, the spirit of the African slave inside Jane dies. ... To draw on S...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Aranda is the leader that they would follow in death, yet Babo is the master of their lives and the ship. ... One founded and the other perpetuated the institution of African slavery, resulting in generations of cruelty and savagery that had caused the deaths of thousands. Their designation as death also foretells the demise of the Spanish Empire, which Melville hints at from the beginning descriptions of the San Dominick as a dilapidated chateau (Melville 200). ... Death in the most horrible sense is a result of the institution slavery, which makes man capable of the worst inhumanities after ...

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• Grade Level: High School

And if 50 million Africans, by the 1800's, are greeted with enslavement and/or death, it is more of lifestyle of disposable assets. ... In the century prior, Oxford English Dictionary deemed that the color "black" was a representation of having dark, deadly purposes along with being stained with dirt, yet the color "white" was associated with beauty in Elizabethan poetry (Zinn 31). ...

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The deck was dark and probably unbearable to smell the awful conditions. ... They were whipped and beaten to near death, and in some cases, they were put to death. ... Many could not stand this and would jump overboard or try to attack the Europeans, which ended in death. ...

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When I first began reading the book "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson I was not very interested, it was slow going and I had a difficult time getting into the story. However I suddenly got a spark of inspiration. This book began to pull me in and I would wake up excited to see what would happen nex...

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As he is only able to see her less than half a dozen times in his life, and even then only when she comes at night, when she dies, he "received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger." ... Auld had had no previous contact with slavery prior to his arrival, and as such, she was unsullied by its darkness. ... This plan was not without its risks, however: "With us it was a doubtful liberty at most, and almost certain death if we failed." (pg. 124) However, "For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage." ...

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Dark skinned men are bought for the fields and light skinned women for the house. ... In the fight Browns sons were killed and he was sentenced to death. ... Abraham Lincoln received his first death threat before ever taking office. ...

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Sarny, like most African American twelve year olds at the time was owned by a plantation owner. Clel Waller was the master at this particular plantation. Childhood for Sarny was never all that great. At the age of four her "birthing Mammy", birth mother, was sold. This event should not have affected...

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Everything we learn from the time we learn from birth to death contributes to our cultural makeup " as explained by Professor John Ulloa. ... She is a dark-skinned Virgin, she is the Mexican version of the Virgin Mary; she is national identity having her as an icon has shown the influence of Roman Catholicism in this particular national culture. ... The fact that she is dark-skinned could be the product of the mixing of European and Meso-American (mestizo) religions and people. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

My time periods start in the 1850's to the 1900. Every owner is different. One master may give their slaves rest period once in awhile, while others may work slaves to their limits. There were some slaves who were punished for little things and some were barely punished at all, but they all did g...

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When revealing the darker side to servitude though, she does not necessarily petition to those of authority who can bring about change due to her lack of firsthand knowledge and the additional elements of fiction that skew the integrity of the slave experience. ...

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Orlando Patterson noted that this tradition was forced upon slaves to mark the morning of their own death: 'the shorn head of a slave was a permanent condition of liminality and that he the slave must forever mourn his own death'.20 Toomer uses the aesthetic of hair to show the ways in which his characters mourn their own social death within society, that they essentially have no social position because they are Negro. ...

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It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in the slave ship, moral and physical suffering, darkness and the violence towards the women slaves. "Voyage Through Death / To Life Upon these Shores" symbolizes the apex of the construction of the Middle Passage; this is an emphatic claim to life, signifying the arrival of a new people on the scene of the New World. ... There are also various critical comments, for example Gilroy who speaks about Turner's painting of 1840 cal...

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• Grade Level: High School

She associates dark with words like "defilement," "foolishness," and "desecrators" (216). ... At the end of Janie's trial for Tea Cake's death, it is the black community that continues to reject her. ...

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The early English colonies can be broken in to three separate regions. Although these areas consist of more than one colony, each region can be represented by a single colony. Massachusetts was located in the north eastern most region called New England. Pennsylvania was part of the middle coloni...

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From the early 1900's until after the death of Leopold in 1909, Morel, having become a radical human rights campaigner, used the information smuggled out of the Congo by missionaries and Leopold's employees, to set up the Congo Reform Association (CRA) and mount a campaign that won the support of prominent politicians and churchmen, both in Britain and in the United States. Among these supporters was the highly respected Joseph Conrad (author of Heart of Darkness). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Toni Morrison's Beloved, each generation hopes to find a better home despite a malignant world: Sethe's mother traveled from the slave ship to the plantation, Sethe from the plantation to Cincinnati, Beloved from Cincinnati to death, and Denver from a strange, haunted land of ghosts and despair to her community at large. ... Sweet Home – whose name rings with dark irony – serves to demonstrate the impossibility of creating a home within institutionalized slavery. ...

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Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman's book Time on the Cross, analyzes the Southern economy before and after the Civil War. The book's purpose is to show how important African Americans were to the Southern economy, and tries to "correct t...

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• Grade Level: High School