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 ...

• Word Count: 1998
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1938
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School