I am an American, but I am also Black. ... According to one of the contributing authors of Black Life and Culture in the United States, Colin A. ... Knowledge in a slave was the one thing that whites had over blacks. ... Just think if a slave was on trial, the testimony of a black witness would never equal to that of a white witness. ... However, treatment was a bit more lenient in places like New York, Pennsylvania, and Boston. ...

• Word Count: 2927
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

They no stoves or chimneys; some of them something like a fireplace at the end..." ... It is obvious that these cabins with no furniture inside did not seem like people's homes. ... But one thing puzzled me when I read it. ...

• Word Count: 3121
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

They no stoves or chimneys; some of them something like a fireplace at the end..." ... It is obvious that these cabins with no furniture inside did not seem like people's homes. ... But one thing puzzled me when I read it. ...

• Word Count: 3121
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After January 1, 1863, the Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy. By the end of the war, there was an estimated 200,000 black men who had fought for the Union and freedom. ... Jacobs is credited to be the first black woman to write a book narrative. ... There is a quote I read from her autobiography and it really stuck with me. ... At first, I did not understand why she would leave her kids, but it occurred to me that if she was away, Dr. ...

• Word Count: 2508
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The book's purpose is to show how important African Americans were to the Southern economy, and tries to "correct the perversion of the history of blacks - in order to strike down the view that black Americans were without culture, without achievement, and without development for their first two hundred and fifty years on American soil." ... They believed that blacks were lazy and lied to get out of work. ... Farmers moved their whole plantation to the New Southern states like Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. ... Individuals like Ulrich B. ... Others like Phillips c...

• Word Count: 3223
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Prince, the first British black woman to escape slavery, wrote an intelligent account containing the standard slave narrative conventions. ... "Oh the Buckra people who keep slaves think that black people are like cattle, without natural affection,"" she laments. "But my heart tells me it is far otherwise- (71). ... As with the other criteria for her writing, Prince complies with Pringle's demands for an image of Christ-like piety. ... Wood further pushes the envelope, but Prince immediately asserts her own self-respect: "Sometimes when he called me to wash him I would not come, my eyes ...

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

He offered bread to the poor little hungry children, "who, in return, would give me the more valuable bread of knowledge" (Douglass 34). ... New York City's privately owned streetcar lines discriminated against blacks, requiring them to ride on the outside platforms of the cars, or restricting them to specially designated carriages that ran less frequently. ...

• Word Count: 5595
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the image it shows them dressed like white wolves in order to drive the bison off the cliff. ... Relying on a lot of seafood like salmon and halibut but agriculture was not needed. ... Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk American Indian tribe states, "my reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. ... " Black Hawk believes the land is also spiritual and can provide endless beauty if allowed. ... The Native Americans disguised themselves in the image to look like the Americans or the white people. ...

• Word Count: 2660
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

It was this book in particular that helped me to realize that scope of my research must be wider. ... There were others like the conservative Republican who felt that that would be stepping to far outside of their power. ... McClellan seemed to feel that he was in the good favor of the president, "Although McClellan told his wife that the President was "very affable & I really think he does feel very kindly towards me personally" the two would never meet again." ...

• Word Count: 5422
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography

Like politics, economics, sectionalism, and the constitution, and that slavery was just the match that set the Civil War off. ... They thought that the South would collapse without slavery and that the blacks were inferior to the whites. ...

• Word Count: 3329
• Approx Pages: 13