Through out the video facts are shown to support the fact that blacks were not treated as human beings. ... His talents are unheard in the slave race, which was full of illiterate, uneducated blacks. ... While on his own as a boy, Douglas purchased a book and studied its speeches and articles. ... The issued this statement because he believed that the blacks had been given the rights that every human being deserves. ... Blacks everywhere owe Frederick Douglas for his ingenious ways to abolish slavery. ...

• Word Count: 885
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Mark Twain created a realistic view of the troubles of a young boy and his African-American slave companion. ... The young boy Huckleberry Finn is quite a character. He's what people would call a "real boy." ... The large burly black slave that accompanies Huck on many of his adventures was his supposed murderer. ... The enormous black man was respected greatly by slaves all over the area and further. ...

• Word Count: 624
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The story starts out with a young boy by the name of Jessie Bollier a thirteen year old southern white boy who plays his fiddle for pennies at the dock. ... They finally let him loose but the dark sea and black sky made the thought of an escape was impossible. ... The boy and Jessie got acquainted. ... The boy's name was Ras. ... Just then they were approached by a black man who was a runaway slave. ...

• Word Count: 1821
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Words Hurts What would you do if you where a little boy who was taught about racism when you where a child and you had to pick the right thing to do or the wrong thing? ... Twain was just writing what was said and it would sound strange if he used black man or black person instead of nigger. ... This is a little boy that had to choose slavery or a friend. Huck decides to save black mans life over his own. ... When Twain put his novel together, he want to show how people where treated and how a white boy could care for an African American and make the right decision even though that was not w...

• Word Count: 1050
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Back in the 1800's, White people could own Black people as their property. ... When Minty was 13, she tried to help a slave boy who was running away from the master. When the master tried to whip the boy, he hit Minty instead and knocked her out. ... He was a free Black man. ...

• Word Count: 711
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This is why Twain uses Jim, a black slave, as a symbol of society's racism and ignorance. ... The fact that a white boy apologized to an older, black slave, was ground- breaking and very controversial for this time period. The apology reflects Twain's feelings towards blacks himself. ...

• Word Count: 477
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

He became an abolitionist when, as a young boy, he saw a good friend, a young, black slave, of his beaten with a piece of metal by his owner. ... He and his wife agreed to raise a black youth as one of their own. ... Brown moved to the black community of North Elba, New York, in 1849. The community had been established thanks to the philanthropy of Gerrit Smith, who donated tracts of at least 50 acres to black families willing to clear and farm the land. ... On October 16, 1859, he set his plan to action when he and 21 other men -- 5 blacks and 16 whites -- raided the federal arsenal at Harper...

• Word Count: 748
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Douglass asserts that the argument that the black man are content with slavery because they sing and play music is incorrect. ... Douglass explains that his first glimpse of the dehumanizing character of slavery was when he was a small boy around seven years old. ... To the common white person, blacks were a race inferior to whites not only in intelligence, but in moral and emotional development as well. ... He could challenge any boy he met in writing and Douglass would win, he could write on any surface with chalk, and he would copy words out of his owner's books when he was left hom...

• Word Count: 1662
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

There were black male, the black female slaves, white male slaves, and white female slaves. ... The black slaves were referred to as Gallas. ... Prices ranged from 10l. to 12l. for a black boy or girl. ... Adult black male slaves were worth 20l. to 30l. ... Few black slaves reached their middle ages. ...

• Word Count: 1118
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Oates describes Nat Turner as a boy, as a man, and the effect of his death on society around him. ... After the rebellion that Nat Turner initiated was over, many blacks were killed from the fear that whites maintained afterwards. The fear of revolt was one of these, over a total of two hundred blacks died in South Ampton County due to the circumstances caused by the rebellion. Many of these blacks were innocent and were slain because of the fear that Nat Turner had caused among the white community. ... Almost no black was spared in the onslaught that ensued after, and before long the numb...

• Word Count: 1072
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, a young troubled boy goes on an adventure with a runaway slave. The name of this boy is Huckleberry, who is usually just referred to as Huck, and the runaway slave whose name is Jim. ... Huck decides to go into town disguised as a girl to get supplies, but the house he goes to has a woman in it who after a while of talking realizes that Huck is a boy. ... Back in Huck's time most religious people would have thought that black people were made as a lesser race. ... They went along with slavery so easily because they would have thought t...

• Word Count: 1750
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Instead of simply portraying slavery in black-and-white terms of racial tension, A Mercy shows slavery in different forms. ... This blacksmith is the counterpart of Florens, who is a black man but has never been a slave before, and is paid for his work. ... The mother also commented on slavery, repeating the word "we" to emphasize the role of black women in society. By using "we" it shows the unity and bond of the black women and that they are all treated the same. ... When she comes to the blacksmith's house she sees her mother "leans at the door holding her lit...

• Word Count: 1190
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

These three writers shared one common meaning in their writing, that is, slaveholders tried to destroy the black family to make the slaves unfeeling and cold people so they (slaveholders) could obtain their riches without paying for the labor. ... For now this young boy was alone is the world of slavery. ... This quote is an example of boy whose affections for his mother were forever destroyed because of the broken bond of mother and son at an early age. ... Stowe is showing the importance of family to the black slave. ...

• Word Count: 942
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This is the same system that puts a white man's rights to his "property- "his slaves "over the welfare and freedom of a black man. ... Huck and Jim are both outsiders, Huck because he is a boy with a shiftless father and deceased mother, Jim because he is a black slave. ... While society differentiates between an abused runaway slave and an abused runaway boy, Huck does not. ...

• Word Count: 1201
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Our first picture of Huck at the beginning of the novel was a young innocent boy who doesn't like to work and is also superstitious. ... Huck's socially learned response tells him that this is wrong, that life was white over black and that a runaway Negro that Huck could hand in anytime is planning to steal other Negroes. ... Twain is trying to show that Huck is a boy that, even though going against his socially learned response, he was lead by his heart and went with his natural instinct and took in Jim. ... Huck was a boy who "defied" the system and instead of doing what was the "r...

• Word Count: 1013
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. Harriet wrote the book to awaken people to the horrors of slavery. Uncle Tom's Cabin is the best selling piece of American literature of all time. The book starts in Kentucky on the farm of Mr. Shelby. Mr. Shelby is a kind man who cares for his slav...

• Word Count: 606
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Black people are the strongest people on earth. ... Soon after, Abraham Lincoln realized Black soldiers were great assets and that he needed Black soldiers to fight in the war against the Confederacy. Black regiments emerged all across the northern states. ... It show that Whites hated having a Black postmaster. ... Whites showed up at Trice's house and demanded for the boy to come outside. ...

• Word Count: 1964
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

David Crockett Frederick Douglass was a black American, who was one of the most acclaimed human rights leaders of the 19th century. Known to be one of the most famous slavery abolitionists and also became the first black citizen to hold high rank in the U.S. government. ... He met with his mother a few times as a very young boy, until her sick and untimely death, and was also separated from his brothers and sisters. ... Douglass was very smart, and well educated in a time where it was wrong to teach a black man to read and write, because then he would start to get ideas and t...

• Word Count: 874
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• Grade Level: High School

The reintegration of slaves, African Americans, had failed and certain laws were set up in order to maintain the divisions between black and white. ... In these years Mark Twain was still a boy. ... Although she is black one doesn't notice it at first site because only one-sixteenth of her is of black. ... Only one sixteenth of her was black, and that sixteenth did not show. ... In creating a situation in which a white child gets a "black" upbringing and a black child a "white" upbringing, Twain makes us question how differences in race are determined and if they are based on...

• Word Count: 3258
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The poor boy was traumatized for weeks but was forced to continue on as usual the next day. ... I would hear them talking about various slaves, certain religious points, or even the hideous Northerners who had free blacks roaming the streets. ... There was one little boy, around the age of twelve, that was put in my care because he could no longer work. ... When I was allowed to come out and go back to my duties I had learned that the boy had survived. ...

• Word Count: 1428
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

As the two struggle to maintain their freedom, Huck constantly challenges his morals with the way he was brought up, as a racist southern boy, and his own personal beliefs. ... This was the general accepted view of black people in this society. ... He is shown ranting and raving because they allowed a black man to vote. ... He is also forced to accept that being a black man makes him inferior to all white men, even to Huck who is many years younger. ... Because of his upbringing, Huck begins the story believing the slavery is a normal course of life for blacks. ...

• Word Count: 2378
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Frederick Douglass: Literacy and Freedom Frederick Douglass grows from a slave boy to a freed man throughout Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and he uses this transition and identity to provide an outlet to which the reader can identify. ... I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty-to wit, the white mans power to enslave the black man. ...

• Word Count: 713
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• Grade Level: High School

After learning about the Fugitive Slave Act, (which did not allow free blacks to enter Maryland without risk of getting captured or sold), she was moved to dedicate her life to the anti-slavery movement (Hill, 345). ... She is a mother, pale with fear, Her boy clings to her side, And in her kirtle vainly tries His trembling form to hide He is not hers, although she bore For him a mother's pains; He is not hers, although her blood Is coursing through his veins! ...

• Word Count: 2134
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I am an American, but I am also Black. ... According to one of the contributing authors of Black Life and Culture in the United States, Colin A. ... Knowledge in a slave was the one thing that whites had over blacks. ... Just think if a slave was on trial, the testimony of a black witness would never equal to that of a white witness. ... As a boy, he moved to England and received part of his education there. ...

• Word Count: 2927
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It is noted several times that in the eye of the law, blacks are not considered men, but things. ... Another topic often addressed in the novel is exclusion of blacks in the law and the injustice of the entire condition. ... Against, his wife's wishes, he decides to sell Uncle Tom and a boy named Harry. ... Shelby and his wife have become the "gentlemen and lady" slave holders, who see themselves as good Christian people and attempt to take good care of their slaves, but still don't see black people as equal to whites. ...

• Word Count: 2149
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School