Before the Civil War, slave narratives such as these were the first to use such dramatic personal experiences of African- Americans in a text. These narratives, as well as others helped create terms such as "personal as political" and "consciousness raising", which were coined during the 1960's Women's Movement. ... In searching for a resolution to this conflict Jacobs demonstrates the power of personal agency in thought, speech and action. ... Double-consciousness refers to the idea that the Negro in America must look at himself through the lens of a white person, or in other words ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An economical control of free labor diminished any ideas of liberation for African Americans. ... From narratives to historical journals, each author uses their own technique to represent Blacks" resistance and struggle against slavery. ... One the most important topics addressed is the idea of docility. ... Sterne uses Hammond's personal writings to account for an exact interpretation of the methods used to "train" the slaves into obedient and willing partners. ... Unlike the other two essays discussed, author Olaudah Equiano uses a slave's personal account (which are his o...

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She also uses the personal stories of several slaves and owners to aid in the integrity of the book. Douglass" book, called "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," is an autobiography and gives an account of what it was like to live as an American slave. ... This shows her strong opposition to the idea of slavery. ... Each author uses similar examples and stories to reveal the barbaric idea of slavery. Although they have similar views on the idea of slavery, each one has a unique way of targeting the audience. ...

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass In the book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an autobiography that was written himself. ... Throughout the rough times Douglass was losing faith in the idea of family. ... But he believed that the slaveholders "idea" of Christianity was wrong. ... Everybody knows slavery is wrong but it was Douglass that made it more personal. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although "Benito Cereno" holds a powerful message about slavery, this is not the major idea of the story. ... He has no idea about what Benito has really been through with his partner. ... He also requires repeated incentives of evil before he will engage in personal alarms or consent to believe that a person is bad. ... "Benito Cereno" is told in third-person narrative form. ...

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Their personal humanity seems unbroken despite the inhumanity they suffer. ... The movie seems to be without individualized characters or even a conventional narrative. ... This video is not meant to be anyones' idea of a pleasant or good time movie! ... I had a renewed sense of my own personal principals and values. Maybe a better way to explain it is my own personal honor system. ...

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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass shows several instances in which his personal accounts of slavery are highlighted. ... He is, however, provided with a general idea as to how old he truly is, " I come to this from hearing my master say, some time during 1835, and I was about seventeen years old" (Douglass 1). ...

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Upon finishing my copy of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, I have come to realize many new ideas and topics. ... Douglass explained in his narrative that he was withheld many details of his life. ... He had no idea, though he heard many rumors that it was his mother's master. ... It's bad enough to have certain personal privileges taken away, but to also treat a human being like an animal is barbaric. ...

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By night, the sun's absence provided slaves with an opportunity to express their personal independence; an opportunity seldom available under a master's supervision. ... " In this excerpt from his narrative, John F. Van Hook reinforces the idea that the sun's absence provided slaves with independence in the form of an opportunity to run away. ... Furthermore, the absence of the sun allowed some slaves to pursue personal independence through improving their quality of life by cultivating their own crops. ... As we can see, the solar cycle, even in the sun's absence, dir...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This produced copious perspirations so that the air became unfit for respiration from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died- - thus falling victims of the improvident avarice, as I may call it, of their purchasers" (From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African, London, 1789) In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African the protagonist recounts the pain involved in entering this enormous ship, and how, gradually, the more the ship flew over ...

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Throughout the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave we follow as the main character, Douglass, grows as a human being. ... This need for learning not only fueled his mind, but his struggle to over come his personal struggle with slavery. ... (pg. 75) Douglass was treated so much better than he was by his previous masters, and he became set on the idea that he never wanted to return to any of the previous treatments. ...

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However, these intersecting ideas and groups meant that The New Negro movement was not a cohesive one, but was loosely bound together with hopes for racial assertion and self-definition. ... Toomer continually struggled with his own identity 'I wrote a poem called "The First American", the idea of which was that here in America we are in the process of forming a new race, that I was one of the first conscious members of this race'.7 Cane however, was still marketed by Waldo Frank as 'a book about Negroes by a Negro'8 and this slogan appeared in the New York Times and New...

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Shelby, all bad masters do not unite the personal ugliness, the coarseness and profaneness, of Legree. ... Shelby, for instance, is not contented by the idea but enjoys the benefits out of what he deems necessity. ... Stowe's narrative also includes examples of affectionate relations between slaves and their masters especially Tom and Eva. ...

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• Grade Level: High School