Light liberates darkness the same as freedom liberates slaves. Darkness is the absence of light just as slavery is merely the absence of freedom. ... Faith may guide many a man and his heart, but freedom guides the soul. ... This provincial nature that the world commercializes I once held, but it has been freed by the disuniting of my flesh and its influence upon my mind, soul, and heart. ... Without it I become dark and meek as I look to the cold earth for heavenly answers. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He is an opening into the darker side of slavery in this story. ... Clare, a good-hearted man who treats his slaves well, Uncle Tom becomes special friends with his daughter, Evangeline. ... Clair is heart-broken, and attaches himself to Uncle Tom, as he feels closer to Eva through him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The implication is that Captain Delano is a trusting good-hearted fellow who believes in his own ability to judge those around him. ... "Whether, in view of what humanity is capable, such a trait implies, along with a benevolent heart, more than ordinary quickness and accuracy of intellectual perception, may be left to the wise determine." ... Fortunately, in "Benito Cereno" Melville brought light on the dark subject of slavery....

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• Grade Level: High School

Brown provides readers with narratives of daily life on the plantations, at slave auctions and during the dark hours of individual pain but what makes his narratives so unique is his constant reference to all these situations in the paradoxical realm of democracy and religion. ... Brown always felt in his heart that he should be free and vowed to "not die a slave" even before being separated from his family. ...

• Word Count: 541
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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

#1 One rainy day, I was put up to auction in a small town. There were some people who were trying to make a successful bid of me. I remember that I had very strange feeling on a stand and felt full of anxiety about my future. After hot keen competition I was bought by a master. The master told m...

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• Grade Level: High School

Either save a friend that is a slave and go to hell for making a bad decision or do what society taught you and in your heart not save your friend. ... But through the years that is exactly what it has come to. " Niggers is always talking about witches in the dark by the kitchen fire; but when ever one was talking and letting on to know all about such things, was corked up and had to take a back seat." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

With its gamboling tale of Huck's adventure and moral growth as he floats down the Mississippi River with Jim, and while it captures the excitement and the diverse parade that was the United States during that period of the late 19th century, Twain was able to do all this while still exploring the heart of America's problem then, which was slavery and the hypocrisy that developed around it in the South. He took the most serious problem this country has ever seen, and shed a witty light over its dark shadow. ... He dreams of being free from slavery, and even when he is on the run and ...

• Word Count: 2137
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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

Sweet Home – whose name rings with dark irony – serves to demonstrate the impossibility of creating a home within institutionalized slavery. ... However, the Clearing failed because it did not account for the world "yonder"; it isolated the individual within his own heart, denying him the interconnected world he lived within. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

His honesty and submissive attitude touches one's heart and also adds to the effect to the melancholic mood at the same time. ... Naked, chained, shackled, he awoke on his back between two other men in a pitch darkness full of steamy heat and sickening stink and nightmarish bedlam of shrieking, praying, and vomiting-(Haley 150). ...

• Word Count: 4104
• Approx Pages: 16