In her novel "Kindred", Octavia E Butler, writes about a modern black woman who's snatched unexpectedly from her home in 1979 Pasadena, California and transported back in time to the Antebellum South. ... Slaves are considered property because they were black and labeled as subhuman. To enforce the status of blacks being property, white owners would use inhumane violence as a form of punishment. ... Rufus relationship with Dana slowly rises to a greater danger because as a boy Rufus treats Dana as a friend but as Rufus becomes older he manipulates and makes clear that he has to ...

• Word Count: 1077
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In defense of frequent claims by Southerners that blacks are slaves due to being born inferior, Douglass argues that slavery and education are complete opposites and that slavery actually creates the inferiority by promoting ignorance. ... Even as a young boy Douglass becomes frustrated at the fact that he does not know his birthday but all the white children do. ... By sharing his perspective on education, his narrative is one of the key influences that helped other blacks understand the importance of education and how one can only truly be free once they are capable of grasping the reality a...

• Word Count: 1456
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Frederick Douglass was the most important black American leader of the 19th century. ... When Douglass was about twelve years old, his master's wife started teaching him the alphabet from then he continued, secretly, to teach himself how to read and write. ... A message which clearly stated that slavery should be abolished The narrative begins with, "I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot County, Maryland. ... However, the prefaces also implicitly place black narratives under the control of white editors. For this reason, in ...

• Word Count: 2277
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate