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. ... This movie was full of facts about a man that not many people are aware of, Frederick Douglas. ... Blacks everywhere owe Frederick Douglas for his ingenious ways to abolish slavery. ... Vocabulary The vocabulary used in this film about Frederick Douglas was first rate. ...

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• 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. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although he reviles against the black professor, he is indeed embarrassing himself because he knows that the black professor has better ability to do things that he cannot do. ... Jim, however got very angry at Huck that Huck tried to lie him about such a serious thing. ... Since Pap was not a caring father to Huck at all, Huck sees Jim as a person who actually cares about his family more than Pap. ... Grown up as a typical white boy, Huck never doubts the fact that Blacks should be slaves, serving for whites. ... Twain uses Huck as a tool to show the readers how a young white boy could not sh...

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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. ... When in reality he only ran away upon finding out about Huck's departure. The enormous black man was respected greatly by slaves all over the area and further. ...

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• 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. Now what does that tell you about what Twain wrote? ...

• Word Count: 1050
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• 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. ... There she learned about the Underground Railroad. ... He was a free Black man. ...

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Don't Know Much About History: New York, New York, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1990. ... 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. ... Brown returned to the east and began to think more seriously about his plan for a war in Virginia against slavery. ...

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This is why Twain uses Jim, a black slave, as a symbol of society's racism and ignorance. ... During Huck's adventure with Jim, Huck realizes much about himself through Jim. ... 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
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• 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. ... She says that she will not tell anyone about Huck's visit. ... 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 that God made blacks like that so it is alright to go with it. ...

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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. ... Slaves may of sang because they were not allowed to talk badly about their owners. ... 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 home alone. ... But this seemed impossible considering the ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Each of the characters has a third-person narration about their personal history and their life with Florens. ... By using "we" it shows the unity and bond of the black women and that they are all treated the same. ... Because of the betrayal, it is shown that the characters have a change in personality, in relationships, and their view about the world. ... She has a bad dream, but says that it is still better than the dreams about her mother and her brother standing near each other (Morrison 119). When she comes to the blacksmith's house she sees her mother "leans at the ...

• Word Count: 1190
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• 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's opposition to civilization is based on some mature observations about the worth of society. ... 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. ... Huck begins to care too much about Jim to deny his equality. ...

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• 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. ... When Tom tells Huck about the genies and the Arabs etc, Huck knows when Tom is lying when he has seen it hasn't happened. ... Huck felt really bad about it because he didn't mean to and swore he wouldn't do something like that again. ... 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. ... Huck was ...

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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
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... In the first chapter of his narrative, Douglass talks about the separation of mothers from their children. ... 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 th...

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• Grade Level: High School

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...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

David Crockett Frederick Douglass was a black American, who was one of the most acclaimed human rights leaders of the 19th century. ... 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. ... He never once was thinking about himself and held his own. ... I learned more about Douglass because I didn't know what he was famous for. I learned more about Crockett other than that he was the "King of the Wild Frontier". ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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 ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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
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• 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. ... This may not be entirely accurate because although Huck may not be racist, he has been raised by extremely racist -3- individuals who have instilled certain ideas about blacks in his head. ... Because of his upbringing, Huck begins the story believing the slavery ...

• Word Count: 2378
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• 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. ... As I started to protest to what he was about to do, he kicked me in the head again. ...

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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
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

One day he saw an injured black man outside his house in the streets, he was in agony. ... Granville paid for his medical treatment and found him a job as a messenger boy. ... He interviewed 20,000 sailors, ship doctors and traders in Liverpool to find out about slavery. ... Susan Cullen was a White-Middle class campaigner who was married to a black ex-slave. ... She believed that If God does not care if one man is white and another black so why should we. ...

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I am an American, but I am also Black. ... Knowledge in a slave was the one thing that whites had over blacks. ... Many of the incidents included in the narrative are not just about Douglass. ... As a boy, he moved to England and received part of his education there. ... He was a very worldly man who freely traveled about the continents and in doing so, began to write numerous other letters about certain events he encountered. ...

• Word Count: 2927
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• Has Bibliography
• 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! ... The Slave Mother is about a mother and child waiting fearfully to be sold at auction. ... She is extremely wor...

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