A prime example occurs toward the end of her essay: "For the duration of the song Moses is, by turns, reassured, praised, and shouted on ward. ... Rather, she simply discusses how "these Jews" and the African-American slaves both wanted to be free. ... When the Hebrews left Egypt they called upon Moses with hope that he would free them from the hardships they endured. Like so, the slaves in the South never expected President Lincoln to free them, as he was a political leader; rather, it was more likely for an African-American slave to be saved by a free leader of their community such as Tubma...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Role of Abraham Lincoln in the Abolition of Slavery I am going to analyze the essay, "The role of Abraham Lincoln in the Abolition of Slavery." ... He wants the reader to know that the slaves would not have been freed if it were not for Lincoln, but that he was not the sole factor in the event. ... The author wants to make clear that even though Lincoln was a large part of freeing the slaves that it was not his intent as president or for the war. ... In his essay I think he will persuade many people to believe his opinion. ...

• Word Count: 664
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• Grade Level: High School

I would not be able to write such an essay if I didn't have my freedom. It is this freedom that allows me to write an essay differently from other people and is what has taken many others and me as far along in our journey. ... This provincial nature that the world commercializes I once held, but it has been freed by the disuniting of my flesh and its influence upon my mind, soul, and heart. ...

• Word Count: 454
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• Grade Level: High School

Meg Burke History B period Abraham Lincoln Essay 10/24/02 Abraham Lincoln can be considered one of the best American Presidents yet. ... If that meant freeing slaves he would free them but if it meant not freeing them then he would not free any slaves or if that meant freeing some and leaving others he would do that also. He knew that we would not survive as a country if half were slave state and half as free state. ...

• Word Count: 564
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• Grade Level: High School

Slaves" Perspective This essay will attempt to answer four questions that will give us a better understanding of what the slaves themselves thought about the peculiar institution of slavery. ... Accounts of masters/mistresses buying slaves and setting them free. ... Some believed that the Lord would someday set them free. ... They dreamed about the day they could be of free mind and body. ... They were willing to die to be free. ...

• Word Count: 797
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In this essay you will see the difference of being a woman slave verses being a man in slavery. ... Douglass attitude and views contribute to his credibility by getting him to be free. ... These battle made him have self-confidence, have sense of his own manhood, and determined to be free. ...

• Word Count: 623
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• Grade Level: High School

A movement towards freeing the black population appeared long before the Civil War. ... He published essays, as well as his autobiography. ... The image of the everyday life is highly important in his work, with a highlighted image of the cabin and the image, wish and desire of a free life, because the author remembers the discussions occurring after the Civil War. ...

• Word Count: 900
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The main focus of this essay are the many struggles Douglass came upon through slavery and strategies on how he overcome them. ... It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free." ... It was during this realization that Douglass decided to set himself free. ... After Douglass became free, he felt lonely because he did not want to lose his freedom. ...

• Word Count: 1389
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• Grade Level: High School

description: slave's likeness to free slave 2. Soliciting aid from free slave B. ... With a little money he had earned doing errands, he bought a copy of The Columbian Orator, a collection of speeches and essays dealing with liberty, democracy, and courage (Douglass 1846). ... "It was the custom in the State of Maryland to require the free colored people to have what were called free papers. ... "To which I answered: "No sir; I never carry my free papers to sea with me." ...

• Word Count: 1950
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Through his narrative we are given the opportunity to follow Douglass from child hood to his life as a free man. ... This essay will explore Douglass" critique of slavery, as well as the ways in which Douglass uses his story to appeal to his audiences. ...

• Word Count: 933
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Douglass felt that he wanted to become free, on his own, by escaping the institution of slavery by him self, without reaching for the aid of his already free wife (236). ... Douglass could not have better paved the way for abolitionists to make the slaves free, free from tyranny and oppression. ... Douglass could not become a self-made man, according to Carnegie's essay. ...

• Word Count: 1532
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Leigha Dalton Eng20, Sec 27 Essay 1 10/26/2003 Ultimate Power Today, freedom and equality are two virtues that Americans overlook and take for granted. ... Rufus had the power to control and threaten Dana despite the fact that she was a "free" slave. Even though she was free, the color of her skin designated her as an easy target for Rufus's manipulation. ...

• Word Count: 1258
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

and died in 1895 as a freed man named Frederick Douglass. In my essay I am going to just overview the book, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave, which was written by him-self. ... Douglass immediately wrote to Anna Murray, whom was a free woman and the wife to be of Frederick Johnson (what he was known as at that time), to come meet him in New York, which she did. ... Now a free man, Douglass would go on to speak in 1841 at an abolitionist meeting in Nantucket, Massachusetts about his slavery experiences. ...

• Word Count: 1742
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Its goal was to send the free slaves to Liberia, Africa. ... Abolitionists became important to the Free Soil Party in 1848. ... This helped slaves that were trying to get to the free states or to Canada. ... She became the most famous leader of the underground railroad, which aided slaves fleeing to the free states or to Canada. ... In 1831, Maria Stewart began to write essays and make speeches against slavery, promoting educational and economic self-sufficiency for blacks. ...

• Word Count: 2903
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

In the period after the War of 1812, during the so-called "Era of Good Feelings", the United States was with faced many good things, but seemed to be outweighed with bad things such as a failing economy, the beginning of sectionalism, and more issues with foreign policies, therefore the label of the...

• Word Count: 515
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• Grade Level: High School

Sherman's promise that freed slaves would receive 40 acres and a mule. ... But that's one of the several points of this essay; I am saying that we can't go forward into the future making the same mistake over and over again unless we acknowledge that there is a error in our development as a nation that is impacting the lives of many people in a negative way. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The American Civil War was a milestone in the history of not only the United States, but the world as well. The Civil War set in stone, the position the United States would take in the world community. The end result of the war, securing the Union, verified that the U.S. would remain a large count...

• Word Count: 1746
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• Grade Level: High School

The Slaves" and the Slave owners" Views of Slavery The slavery in the United States is no doubt a shameful history of our country. White people transferred the slaves living in Africa to the New Land and treated them as their property, not as human beings. The living and working conditions of slaves and their food were extremely poor. Those were inhuman conditions in which the slaves had to survive. Endless executions of the slaves made the situation even worse. ...

• Word Count: 3121
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Slaves" and the Slave owners" Views of Slavery The slavery in the United States is no doubt a shameful history of our country. White people transferred the slaves living in Africa to the New Land and treated them as their property, not as human beings. The living and working conditions of slaves and their food were extremely poor. Those were inhuman conditions in which the slaves had to survive. Endless executions of the slaves made the situation even worse. ...

• Word Count: 3121
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School