First, I would like to give a brief summary of what went on in the chapter to outline how I will analyze the chapter. ... This fact was appalling to me. ... That stuck out to me because that quote, coming from a white servant, I can't imagine how much worse it must have been for a black slave. ... The last topic that I would like to analyze was the part where Takaki recounts the part that Thomas Jefferson played in slavery in America. ... This chapter almost made me completely hate Jefferson because it goes on to say that Jefferson had all these children with one of his black slaves, Sall...

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I found myself listening to the arguments of the black and white abolitionists, as well as the slaves, and for every point they made I was usually able to think of some sort of counter argument. This really scared me. ... The concept that the black slaves in the south actually had more personal freedoms than the white working class in the north really made me think. ... This makes me feel like the labor that occurred in the north was just slavery with a different name. ...

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Fletcher showed great discomfort with the fact that a black man shook his hand, because Fletcher being an aristocrat planter felt superior to the former slave. ... Fletcher meets his accomplice on a ride home from a party; his name was Harpin John, a famous black barbequer, and harmonica player. ... This book shows how the UGGR recruits its prospects, and they give their faith to complete strangers, like Fletcher. The thing that surprised me is that Fletcher left everything, his home his family just to save Harpin John's life. This shows to me what kind of self-sacrifice a conductor was w...

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Dana, the modern black women, is summoned to save and work for Rufus, a white son of a plantation owner, out of his misery. ... Slaves are considered property because they were black and labeled as subhuman. To enforce the status of blacks being property, white owners would use inhumane violence as a form of punishment. In Kindred, Dana disobeys Tom Weylin, Rufus father, when he clearly warned her not to read anymore and suddenly one day Dana gets discovered, Weylin says, "Didn't I tell you I didn't want you reading' 'I treated you good' said Weylin 'he sna...

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Even though Lincoln knew slavery was wrong and the blacks should be free he still wanted to send them back to Africa or unoccupied lands, again does that sound like someone who deserves the name "The Great Emancipator". Because to me I thought if he truly wanted and respected the ending of slavery he would keep the black slaves apart of the Union where they were free to do what they wanted "in a nation where men were created equal" . To me it seems as if Lincoln was uncomfortable with the idea of having blacks live in the United States and wanted them out. ... As quoted b...

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"At the age of 12, I was already reading books and was already thinking of what was going to happen to me, being a slave for life" – says Douglass. ... All his writings can be characterized by an elegant style, using very many rhetorical effects from sermons, making the readers feel like they are the judges presiding over the black lives. ... Booker is the founder of the first American black collage. ... He worked all his life for the assertion of black education. ... It was a league founded in order to bolster black-American business. ...

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The overseer beat the slave in one of his gangs (and for quite a good reason) because he tripped while working on draining the marshlands for the sugar canes (I like to grow sugar more than cotton because cotton ruins the soil quicker than anything I've ever grown) and completely made a mess of everything. ... I wish we could use the immigrants instead of blacks, but they don't come down here often. ... I had better win, why would they ever set a black fugitive free. ... Cecilia's friend's daughter, Amelia, was recently found in bed with a black slave. ... Cecilia just ca...

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My master sounded like a real rich man. ... No one complain it besides me, but I want people treat me like a free man and I want to go wherever I want to go. ... Then, he took me to the chief's house. ... This was so strange, but when I was a child I dreamed that one day I became a black Indian. ... David Ramsay, a South Carolina historian, asserted that between 1775 and 1783 his state lost at least 25000 blacks. ...

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(Gould 1858: 35) Its not that Lincoln thought blacks where evil or should be treated like animals. ... In fact the people who lived in America first were treated like slaves and savages. ... The hard liners were treated there slaves like animals and had no remorse. ... They to thought blacks were inferior, but they didn't think that people of color were animals. ... In the words of Martin Luther King "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the twentieth century, I will be happy" (King 1968: 280) during his last sermon. ...

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Secondly, he exposes real events he witnessed and encountered as a slave like the horrible conditions in which slaves were transported aboard big ships across the ocean. ... In a way, Equiano believed that free blacks had it just as bad. ... Equiano wrote "hitherto I had thought only slavery dreadful, but the state of a free negro appeared to me now equally so at least.... Being a free black man or woman meant living in a common ground between freedom and slavery. ... The more blacks who came into the new world, the limited the rights of free and enslaved blacks became being that they wer...

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I also believe that there were in fact black people who were hardened by their own sins as well. ... In Fredrick Douglass" narrative Douglass gives a very vivid description of the effects of slavery on both blacks and whites. In my opinion the views he delivered in his narrative regarding the effects of the whites and blacks were quite balanced and fair. ... Douglass acknowledged God's sovereignty in slavery and held tightly to the fact that although his physical body may have been beaten, "slavery would not always be able to hold him within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours o...

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Blacks joined abolition only on sufferance. ... Blacks deserved just as much freedom as whites. ... He once said, "I regard him as thoroughly base and selfish....He reveals himself more and more to me as destitute of every principle of honor, ungrateful to the last degree....He is not worthy of respect, confidence, or countenance." ... Soon, two black regiments were formed. ... It may sound depressing, but Douglass, and many others like him, did build the foundation for later equality movements by Martin Luther King. ...

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(Amistad), that immediately disturbed me and made me think twice about that movie. The first criticism I would like to make about the movie is the seemingly insignificant role of the Africans in the movie. Yes they are the ones the whole movie and the trial in the movie are about but it doesn't look fair to me that all Africans but one, Cinque, don't even play an important role in the fight between the different parties over them. ... But the single fact that disturbs me the most in that scene is how Cinque and his friend Yamba suddenly seem to believe deeply in Christianit...

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She believed people should have equal right no matter black or white. ... America is like neighbors. ... To me American spirit is one of the greatest things that has happened to America. ... Even if people had the least bit of American spirit, like by saying " pledge of allegiance" its good enough for me. I am very thankful for people like Harriet and Rosa. ...

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Frederick Douglass even served as an advisor to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for black rights to vote and other civil liberties. ... They were treated poorly just like a slave would be treated scrounging for food and huddling together to keep warm at night. ... His dreams of emancipation were encouraged by the example of other blacks in Baltimore, most of whom were free. ... He later wrote, "A new world had opened upon me." ... At times he was treated like a part of a family but then he was again cast out as a slave. ...

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David Crockett Frederick Douglass was a black American, who was one of the most acclaimed human rights leaders of the 19th century. Known to be one of the most famous slavery abolitionists and also became the first black citizen to hold high rank in the U.S. government. ... Crockett who had family was in fact not as close to them as he would have liked to have been. ... "The joy of my sisters and my mother, and, indeed, of all the family, was such that it humbled me, and made me sorry that I hadn't submitted to a hundred whippings..."... With Douglass it seemed like his employer'...

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Some might still think, what about other minorities, like Chinese and Japanese, they've had their share of discrimination and they're doing great. That to me is an unfair comparison. ... Black's were brought here as slaves, as objects, less than human. ... Adolph Reed says that American Blacks are the wealthiest blacks in the world, but what he doesn't understand is that discrimination in America isn't a world issue, it's an American issue. ... Giving reparations is actully like old masters finally letting go, giving them their other 2/5, making them truly fre...

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Twain was just writing what was said and it would sound strange if he used black man or black person instead of nigger. ... Jim is like a father figure for Huck because of his biological father was a heavy drinker. ... Huck decides to save black mans life over his own. ... Now there is something wrong with that picture to me. When people start to read this novel they think of Jim to be lower than them, but would if you had to life like that for you whole life. " Jim is a very complex man in the novel, he cares about everything and everybody." ...

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The repercussions of slavery have led to many years of discrimination of African Americans and segregation between whites and blacks. ... In agreement with Horowitz, one can see how reparations are not the answer to make amends for and correct the wrongs that were inflicted upon black American slaves. ... On the N"COBRA (National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America) website, it was stated, Let me say here, that I don't expect non-Christians to understand this at all. ... The most proper thing we can do as white Americans is to apologize for what has happened, but more impor...

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You could look at your owner in a fashion that he didn't like and you would have received a beating. ... They treated the slaves like animals and not humans; they even bred the slaves to produce more. ... Another aspect was food depravation; it was like the old saying "Only the strong survive". ... " We were nearly at two hours covey at length let me go, puffing and blowing at a great rate, saying if I had not resisted he would not have whipped me half so much. The truth was that he didn't whip me at all (Douglas 43)". ...

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There are a few references from the Constitution of the United States of America that don't make direct references to the idea of slavery with reparations but I would like to point them out. ... If that isn't cruel and unusual then explain to me what is. ... To me, America refuses to acknowledge or engage in any debate concerning its role in slavery at the beginning of its founding and the resulting attitudes it has towards its own Black African descendants. ... In February of 1992, Pope John Paul II visited the slave dungeons of Goree in Senegal and begged forgiveness from the hig...

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Frederick Douglass was a black man. ... Many questions reach me of the things he spoke of. ... It may require some maturity or taste to like the book. It seems to be very similarly formatted as other works like this. ... It is essential to know the type of reading that you like before choosing this book. ...

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In today's society no human being can ever imagine the pain, loneliness, anguish, and complete agony, that black women encountered during slavery. ... In the book Linda has mixed feelings about her children because like any mother she so dearly loves them. ... Why doesn't God kill me?" Linda explains that things like this happen daily, even hourly. ... The black man or woman accused of being a fugitive slave had no right to a trial and jury. ...

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I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty-to wit, the white mans power to enslave the black man. ... He is growing, he is learning, he is maturing, and like a small child asking question after question, he will not rest until his thirst for knowledge is quelled. ... This becomes prevalent in his actions; as one of his Masters, Captain Auld put it, "city life had almost ruined me for every good purpose and fitted me for everything that was bad."" ...

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"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress." - Harriet Jacobs Harriet Jacobs didn't have an ideal life she was born a slave and experienced many tragedies in her life. ... Well that was not the case he kept Harriet and her child, she didn't like that so she got pregnant again by the same man. ... During the 1860s Harriet did relief work like nursing black soldiers and teaching.Then she lived in Washington D.c with her daughter. ... Harriet is a very inspirational wo...

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