Douglass's devotion to abolitionism led him to confer with Abraham Lincoln during the civil war and after the war he fought for the rights of women and African-Americans alike. ... So we can say that the story is always motivated. ... I do not ever remember to have met a slave who could tell of his birthday." ... In fact, we can say that Douglass's preface could stand for what Lejeune called the autobiographical pact which committed the author to tell his life story in a spirit of sincerity. ... Though, the narrative tells such a story it tells it an unusual way for instance the ...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He speaks or slavery, rebellion, misery, and freedom in his poems and short stories. ... He got a job, which bored him enough, that he began to write poems and short stories. ... The most famous line "I know what the caged bird feels", tells us what the poem is basically about, that Dunbar knows how it feels to be imprisoned and not be able to so as you please. ... The poem "We Wear Masks" Dunbar speaks of the way people try to hide their true selves. ... O great Christ, Our cries to thee from tortured souls arise", is a line that tells us about the poem as a whole. ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The ending of the story doesn't tell you whether or not Nancy actually is murdered the last night the father leaves her at her cabin. ... In Red Leaves Faulkner tells a story Native Americans who own slaves on their plantation. ... This story is interesting because not only does Faulkner play with the perspectives of people very different than him, he plays with how people talk among themselves. ... Although the Native American's live like white men on their plantation, they still hold true to certain rituals when the chief of their tribe dies. ... There are many theories that Mi...

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• Grade Level: High School

On the other hand, Longstreet is a realistic soldier in the story. ... This further tells us the intentions and motives for the North. ... The final change of heart and religion in the story was in the ending of the adventure with Chamberlain, "He thanked God for the honor. ... This ending passage shows the power of God and how he wipes slates clean. ... Chamberlain conveys how he feels about the war as he tries to convince the imprisoned troops to fight with him in the war. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This was true for the three minority groups in the late 1800's-women, Native Americans, and emancipated slaves. ... "How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... Native Americans in the 1800's wanted peace and preservation, but instead they got war. ... In the short story, "A Pair of Silk Stockings", "Little" Mrs. Sommers does everything for her family, yet one day when she finds fifteen dollars, she tells no one and spends it on herself. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He tells stories of savage beatings, as well as the unnecessary and unreasonable strife that was inflicted upon Negroes. ... This is very true of Douglass. ... Douglass and Jacobs speak in a more secular tone and their story is less of a journey. ... Douglass and Jacobs are two biracial people experiencing how it is to be divided between two cultures. ... Where these two narratives differ is the fact that Jacobs is a woman and tells her experience from a woman's point of view. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This book had a very inspiring and exciting story to tell. The story is set in the time of the Civil War. ... This is especially true for Miss Jane Pittman. ... His death is a prime example of how the society in which he lives in not only oppresses blacks, but others as well. ... Seeing how Jane overcame many obstacles and had long lasting endurance throughout the story made me feel more confident in my abilities. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Often, Washington is angrily deferred to as an "Uncle Tom" where Dubois is championed as the true hero of African-American ideals. ... We must look for the source of the disagreement in what they tell us they see - what they base their most fundamental premises on. ... What one feels is that he is not the hero of his own story, that in fact the hero exists in the personified form of a principle - a principle called "Freedom", defined by Washington, temporarily exemplified by him throughout the course of the story. ... So, where Washington tells us a straightforward Horatio-Alger-like story, Du...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The quote shows just how important the land that they had discovered was to them because of all the new materials. ... The Interesting Narrative tells a story of a slave that travels to through the Middle Passage and explores all different parts of the world. ... The chief employment in all these countries was agriculture, and both males and females, as with us, were brought up to it, and trained in the arts of war- (54). This quote shows how Equiano was passed from master to master and all the resources he encountered. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Celia's denial for their continual accusations made them even more stubborn and desperate insisting her to tell them where Robert was. ... Generalizing the law of protection and implementing it over slaves, meant a risk of making both owner and slave at an almost equal social level and would make their idea of ownership pointless, knowing there is no true ownership when there is no total control. ...

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