Kinship and family ties provided the personal and collective character of Africans and when taken beyond their shores they became rootless and "all at sea". ... LEISURE (MUSIC AND DANCE) "Slaves often sang when at work in the fields or factory, measuring out via songs the pattern of work, the rhythm of labour; a refrain and choral response which provided the discipline for labouring routines (Walvin 2001;p139)". ...

• Word Count: 2095
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beloved The setting, time, and main characters of the film Beloved all point to struggling aspects of African Americans and African American women in particular. ... Sethe takes a drastic measure and slays her two sons, harms her daughter Beloved, while her other daughter goes untouched. ... It gives you enough backbone for each character to make some connection with. ... The character I most identified with was Denver. ...

• Word Count: 1629
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Jim Crow was the name of a character in a minstrel show. ... Across the South, so-called "Black Codes" passed by the new state governments, imposed a range of oppressive measures that amounted to a second slavery for freed people. ...

• Word Count: 1168
• Approx Pages: 5

Despite the aspect of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn being a fiction, the characters from this novel realistically portray a true view of society's feelings about slavery. ... Covey gave me a savage kick in the side and told me to give up took up the hickory slat with which Hughes had been striking of a half-bushel measure and with it gave me a heavy blow upon the head, making a large wound, and the blood ran freely" (566). ...

• Word Count: 1876
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In Becoming America, author Jon Butler persuasively argues that the late American colonial period of 1680-1770 was one of monumental change, the end result being an essentially "modern- culture. He defeats the notion that the period was one of economic and cultural dependence on the English, and he ...

• Word Count: 2312
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate