While I haven't determined the relationship to the reader I understand that Douglass was using an active voice. ... While again we see an active voice, Eudora is present the entire time and is speaking presently. ... The voice is active, nothing used in past tense. ...
The words of Prince exemplify the importance of the woman's voice in the anti-slavery campaign, while the controversy over her moral credibility challenges the principles of English society at that time. In many ways, her impact on history mirrors that of the myriad abolitionist women active during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Prince and her female contemporaries - many of whom also wrote slave narratives - used their voices to promote change and question the tenet England's civilized. ... These bold assertions of Prince's voice did not go unnoticed by the public. ....
Andre Edwards March 13, 2002 English II-7 The Most Famous Conductor of the Trackless Train Harriet Tubman the most active "Greatest Conductor- of "The Trackless Train-(U.s. ... Many African Americans knew her as "Moses of her people-(voices of triumph); "Moses being the biblical figure who led Jews from Egypt-(world book encyclopedia vol 19) helped about 300 enslaved African (the new encyclopedia Britannica) travel north reaching and crossing over Mason-Dixon Line, the line that divided the free from the slave states (us News). ... When she reached Pennsylvania she recalled, "I looked at ...
In Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, he voices his opinions on slavery. ... Upon reaching her freedom, she becomes an active abolitionist. ... He voices his anti-slavery opinions, but he does not seem to take any actions in an attempt to rid our country of it. ...
The enforced institution of illiteracy did the double service of robbing the victim of his voice and of his access to alternative ideas regarding his condition. ... When Douglass began to pursue his education in secret, he took active control over his life. ... Instead, he wrote with a powerful, matter-of-fact voice about the threats of bloody beatings, starvation, and murder that slaves faced every day. ...
Slavery was a widely controversial issue during the American antebellum era. White southerners were generally for slavery because of the benefits it brought them and the Northerners against it because of how degrading it was. How the slaves felt about slavery and how they learned to cope with it, ...
