1. Warriors Don't Cry
People born black were not considered as persons but were considered animals and were treated as them. ... They were considered as a property that could be sold, kicked, mistreated and they were not supposed to feel anything they could not do anything to fight against this. ...
He is forced to sleep in the stable with the animals, and isn't included in any of the men's leisure activities. ... At first he tells him to go away, because whites aren't supposed to fraternize with the blacks, but eventually he lets him stay. ...
Douglass believes that the slave owners would think of slaves as animals. By thinking of slaves as animals, the slave owners would treat them likewise. ... Douglass was treated like an animal and he would move to different plantations under different slave owners. ... The plantations owners would treat the blacks as animals or as pets rather, telling them what to do and what is suppose to be done. ... He described the mistress of the family in this manner, "she was a kind tender-hearted woman; and in the simplicity of her soul she commenced, when I first went to live with her, to treat me ...
Walking down the street, sitting on the bus, or even riding your scooter-- everything you do, everywhere you go, you see people of different origins. Millions and millions of people, in cities or towns, on streets or street corners, in buildings or vehicles, not one of them the same. Yet, we've lear...
Slavery and the American Experience More than any other history of race relations in America, the struggle between white and black Americans is by the far the most complex and long standing. Beginning with first contact between white Europeans and Africans during the English colonial period, Af...
As Janie begins her story, she sits aside her dying Nanny, as she is presented with the challenge of never being a "spit cup" (37)* for any man, black or white, and of sitting in that high chair that her Nanny never was never allowed to sit in. This challenge becomes a burden on Janie's life that g...
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 form of an all-black voice teasing another black voice, namely the slave Jasper. ...
