Auld had had no previous contact with slavery prior to his arrival, and as such, she was unsullied by its darkness. Initially, she is very cordial and kind-hearted to him, even offering to teach him the ABCs. ... (pg. 77) Douglass describes how slavery, while keeping him down, also causes her to abandon the initial qualities he had found surprisingly different in her; she becomes cold-hearted and quick to anger, and no longer generous, as she was when he first arrived. ... One cannot help but be affected by the multitude of evils that Douglass witnessed and experienced; as Douglass writes ...

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All over the world the modern era is being born that leads to the industrial revolution. In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. The Erie Canal is born, which is the biggest construction project in the western world in the last 4,000 years. It is over 300 miles long,...

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• Grade Level: High School

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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Slave culture had at its heart a set of cultural themes, forms of artistic expression, a religion, a family pattern, and a community structure which set blacks apart from whites and enabled them to form and control a world of their own values and definitions . ... He stated: It was a new and special revelation, explaining dark and mysterious things, with which my youthful understanding had struggled, but struggled in vain. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate