The audiences become emotionally involved beginning at the onset of the father son conflict. The conflict is a result of, the father, Colonel Norwood's denial and non-accepting of Robert, a mulatto, being his son. ... The main noticeable conflict throughout the play is that of the father and son struggle. A father following society's views of what is right and denying his blood son as a result, and a son defying what society feels to be right and going after his father's last name.16 However, another opinion of the main struggle in "Mulatto" is on coming from George E. ... Th...

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Later we learn that the boy was not his son at all. ... Whitechapel never wished anything bad on his son. ... Whitechapel here gives reasons for selling out his son to Mr. ... Would have preferred Whitechapel to be is father instead of his own. "If you were white I would have wanted you as my father." ...

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In the village of the Mandinka tribe it is customary of the father to decide the childs name eight days after the birth. ... On the eighth day Omaru takes his new born son into the dark Africa night alone. He picks raises his son up to the star filled sky and yells out "Kunta Kinte" thus giving his new born son a name. ... When he goes back to tell his father the bad news his father becomes very angry with him that he confronted a lepord with only a slingshot. ... Then we find Kunta talking to his mom then had a hood put over his head by his father to be taken away to manhood training. ...

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The father, Bilal, was enraged that his family was trapped aboard this vessel taking them to the unknown, and "He fought against death from breath to breath." ... The boys fought for freedom by negotiating with Hamlin Turner the reward money for whomever finds his blind son David Turner. ... Elijah and Abby tell him that they will not find his son unless they get the same reward as everyone else. ... His father did not want him to go either. ...

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When we visualized a family we see a father, a mother and their children. If the father or mother is missing there is something wrong. ... Her father is not with her because he is not a slave of Dr. ... Sawyer the white father of Jacobs" two children also could not be a significant part of their family. ... Jacobs was sexually harassed even while working at the plantation by Dr Flint's son. ...

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Her father of course punished him brutally. ... Some white men end up having to father children from these relationships, which I don't want to happen. ... The group, which of course included four of Brown's sons (probably brainwashed), dragged five proslavery men from their homes and beat them to death. ... If only I could meet this crazy John Brown, I"d beat him and his insane sons to death. ...

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RR Donnelley & Sons Company, 2000. ... (He would father twenty children.) ... Brown, knowing that many of the families were finding life in this isolated area difficult, offered to establish his own farm there as well, in order to lead the blacks by his example and to act as a "kind father to them." Despite his contributions to the antislavery cause, Brown did not emerge as a figure of major significance until 1855 after he followed five of his sons to the Kansas territory. ... Brown and his sons would continue to fight in the territory and in Missouri for the rest of the year. ...

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The group talks of the death of their chief and how his son was taking over. ... A lot of dialogue in this story is talking about the chief's son and the passing of gossip along to each other. ... Emily's past is described as being sheltered by her father and having no mother. She was forced to live alone with her father until he died and then she had no one. ... In Red Leaves the Native American characters interested themselves in talking of the chief's son and his habits. ...

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This behavior is obvious in just the second chapter during his son's Christening. ... When it all comes down to it, he's afraid that his world will change so much that his son will not have everything he deserves. He's afraid that his son will live in a society were the "servile race" is equal to him. He doesn't want change because he's afraid of it, so like every "loving" father he will do anything in his power to prevent that from happening. ...

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It is quite feasible that the reason he was so interested in Lloyd was because of Frederick's lack of a father. In fact many historians believe that Lloyd may very well have been the father of this young mulatto. ... Eventually he met with Lloyd's young son Daniel. ... Auld was the brother of Aaron Anthony's son-in-law, Thomas Auld. Hugh was the owner of a plantation and with him lived his wife Sophia and their son Thomas. ...

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Othello is harassed by Desdemona's father, who claims that he used magic to steal his daughter from him. ... They long to see Titus in pain because he put Alarbus, the eldest of Tamora's sons, to death after his capture. ... He will do anything that he can to protect his son. ... In fact he is more the caretaker of her sons than she is. To some degree he plays the role of father figure to Chiron and Demetrius. ...

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Othello is harassed by Desdemona's father, who claims that he used magic to steal his daughter from him. ... They long to see Titus in pain because he put Alarbus, the eldest of Tamora's sons, to death after his capture. ... He will do anything that he can to protect his son. ... In fact he is more the caretaker of her sons than she is. To some degree he plays the role of father figure to Chiron and Demetrius. ...

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He also did not know who his father was, though he knew it was a white man. It was rumored that his master was his father, but he never knew for sure. ... Hugh Auld, which was the brother of his old master's son-in-law. He would be taking care of their son Thomas. ... Auld even started to teach Freddy (as he was called by their son Thomas) to read. ...

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"A Different Kind of Christmas", is about a son of a southern aristocrat planter, he is sent to Princeton to pursue an education. There, Fletcher the aristocrats son is influenced by a group of Quaker brothers. ... Fletcher returns to his home two weeks before Christmas, where Fletcher established himself as a huge proslavery person who will someday take over his father's plantation. ...

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His birth-name was Essaka and he was the son of an Ibo chieftain. Equiano was the youngest son of seven kids, six boys and one girl. ... The youngest son of a village leader, Equiano was born among the Ibo people in the kingdom of Benin, along the Niger River. ... His family expected to follow in his father's footsteps and become a chief, an elder, a judge. ... One of the children survived to inherit an estate of around &160,000 from Susanna's father. ...

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Equiano's original destiny was to follow in his father's footsteps and become an Embrenche. ... Stowe's pain was from the lost of her son, Samuel. ... Chapter seven was the story of Eliza and her son's escape from slavery. Eliza had already lost her husband, she refused to loss her son. Escaping was the only things she could do to save her son, to save what was left of her family. ...

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With no sorrow, the young boy's parents scold Dana for saving their son from the water. The young boy's father drives a shotgun barrel down Dana's face. ... But Rufus's father, Master Tom Weylin, is a stubborn, old fashioned man who tries to thwarts Dana's efforts into molding Rufus into a gentleman. ...

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He was born to Harriet Bailey, a slave, and believed to have been fathered by his master. Douglass was never able to prove that his master was his father, he only assumed because his skin was so light compared with his mother's. Slave children fathered by their master were often given special treatment. The children were often sent away so as not to be punished by the master's wife for his infidelity and so the master would never have to punish his own son. ... The couple eventually had five children, including two sons who served in the United States Army during the Civil War. ...

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The Delaware tribe welcomed them, and his father became chief of Pocopoco. ... His closest friend was Delaware chief's son, Mushwink. ... Tom's father was shot and died in February and his childhood friend scalped his father. ... On the three men's canoe, Tom found his fathers Meerschaum Pipe which was engraved 1724. ... Tom's father's killer later met up with Tom where he proved he had killed Tom's father. ...

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The Novel: "Pudd'nhead Wilson-, set in the 1830s, centers on the switching of two babies born on the same day - one the result of miscegenation, the other the legitimate son of a white slave owner."" ... Next to taking care of her master's son Tom, Roxy also has to look after her own son Chambers. ... In order to save her son Chambers from growing up to become a slave, she switches him with Tom who looks just like Chambers. Her son, now called "Tom-, grows up as a white man and Tom, now called "Chambers- grows up as a slave. ... He is the father of Roxy's son, Chambers. ...

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During the craziness that would be going on in the county Aaron would bring to the slave world a son whom he would name Clifton aka Pud. ... In fact people were afraid of James on account of all the things his father was known for doing. James wouldn't stray too far off from his father's past. ... He would soon marry and have a son named Butch. ... Willie would go throughout life without a father figure just as his father did, and grandfather and great grandfather, and great great grandfather. ...

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He decides to bestow the title on the war weary general, passing over his spoiled son Commodus. Upon hearing this, Commodus kills his father and takes over as the Cesar of Rome. ... One thing that instantly stood out to me was, despite the fact that most or all of the characters were Roman, none of them spoke Latin except Maximus' son. ...

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In the film, Spartacus says that he was a slave from birth and that his father before him was also a slave. ... Along with Spartacus' 'wife' comes Spartacus' baby son who was born shortly before he died. This has been added in by the film makers, probably to give the story an element of happiness in the end because after the birth of Spartacus' son, his blood line is continued even though he is now dead. ...

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He did not know who was his real father. He heard some people said that his first master, Captain Anthony was his father. ... Captain Anthony had two sons; Richard and Andrew, and a daughter; Lucretia Auld. ... He has a brother, Hugh who is married to Sophia and have a son Little Thomas. ...

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The loyalty of Hester to the father of her bastard child causes her to be chastised from the puritan community. ... Davidson J. et al., (2010) stated "Masasoit died and was succeeded by his son Metacom" (p. 94). ... As she's purchasing the servants the auctioneer asked her, "Shouldn't your husband or father be doing business with me?... Women were allowed to conduct financial dealings and other matters if their fathers or husbands were absent or ill. ... Due to Metacom's father's death Masasoit the partnership had become a relationship of subordination and s...

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