As a child, Huck is taught that blacks are meant to be slaves, they don't mind being abused and that they are inferior to whites, even animals. ... Pap sees blacks as animals and thinks they are meant to be slaves, Smith states this, "In the first place, a "Free Nigger" is, for Pap, a contradiction in terms" (Smith,366). ... Jim shows an unexpected intelligence which he is not supposed to have. ... Huck, who all of his life believed that blacks are inferior animals, comes to the realization that in fact Jim, who is black himself, is human. ... Huck feels bad for them and for the f...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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

These slaves acted as if they were animals. "They regarded me curiously as I entered, grinned with malicious satisfaction that I had been brought down to their level, and made some remarks at my expense; while the children kicked, and yelled, and clawed each other, scratching each other's faces, and pulling each other's hair I stumbled to a bench I supposed designed for a seat, when one of the woman arose, seized me by the hair, and without ceremony dragged me to the ground, gave me a furious kick and made use of highly improper and indecent language." (209) Hannah felt rebelli...

• Word Count: 1311
• Approx Pages: 5
• 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

Eventually, the level of debt is so high the immigrants are working for a lifetime under the table for an employer that was supposed to be assisting them. ... In various places across the globe freedom is stifled, whether it's a male, female or even an animal. ...

• Word Count: 1422
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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

Back in the mid 1800's, slavery was in full effect in the areas of the South. Slavery consisted of individuals that worked for so called slave masters who treated them not as human beings but as their personal property. Some say that the slaves basically were treated like animals. The slaves would...

• Word Count: 1984
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate