There was a Great House farm also known aas te home plantation of Colonel Lloyd slaves sometimes had permission from their masters to run errands there. Slaves song a lot of songs at the plantation mentioning the Great House Farm: Douglass didn't understand the lyrics of the songs while he was enslaved. ... In this chapter Douglass tell his readers that not only the owners treat slaves like animals, but they usually value animals more than their slaves. ...

• Word Count: 2694
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

My time periods start in the 1850's to the 1900. Every owner is different. One master may give their slaves rest period once in awhile, while others may work slaves to their limits. There were some slaves who were punished for little things and some were barely punished at all, but they all did g...

• Word Count: 2553
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Before the Civil War, America was plagued with a complicated social quandary that incorporated individual, societal, political, economic, and religious principles. This taboo of a topic found itself well-versed throughout the country in many publications. Its authorship included Frederick Douglass...

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Pettit adds that Twain gained most of his positive acquaintances with slaves during his summers spent on his uncle's farm who owned many of them. ... Slaves are seen in this novel as animalistic creatures ("He was a fairly human man towards slaves and other animals - (14), dependent on the good will of their "master-, and always in fear of being "sold down the river-. - Being "sold down the river- meant having to work under the worst circumstances imagined by a slave further South, down the river Mississippi. - At first we are introduced to the slave Roxana whom we get to know in the...

• Word Count: 3258
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The 1831 slave narrative The History of Mary Prince is indeed a multi-layered text. Transcribed from Mary Prince's own words, it was written as abolitionist propaganda for England's Anti-Slavery Society. Yet, the autobiography's complexities make it difficult to examine solely as a publicity piece....

• Word Count: 3051
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School