1. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
Aristotle: Politics Book One, Chpts. 1-8 In the first eight chapters of Politics, Aristotle seems to have one primary goal in mind. ... Also in this chapter, Aristotle differentiates between the positions of statesman, king, household manager, and master of slaves, which he refers to throughout Book 1. ... In the second part of this chapter, Aristotle explains how a city-state is formed. ... Chapter 3 deals with why a man rules his household and the concept of wealth acquisition. ... In Chapter 7 Aristotle further differentiates between the different types of rulers. ...
That's what Sandra Forrester writes about, in the book Sound the Jubilee. ... I think the author shows how the season changes very clearly throughout the book. For example, when summer came to Roanoke Island it was stated clearly at the beginning of the chapter, (pg 92, paragraph 1). ... The S.C.I. point that relates most to this book is The Nature of Life is to Grow. In many of the chapters at least one of the characters grows in some way. ...
The book has to main themes, "Remembering the Past" and "Reinventing the Present.... In the final chapter, Iyunolu Osagie studies how the "unthinkable" in American jargon silences the African and African American voices in Steven Spielberg's movie Amistad. ... I really enjoyed this book. I chose this book because in class I had previously heard of a slave ship revolt but I was not certain if it was the Amistad revolt. ... In conclusion, I think the author, Iyunolu Osagie, did an excellent job in achieving her task based on her purpose of writing the book. ...
Betty Wood introduces her book, The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies, by raising two conceptually-related questions: 1) What made English colonists believe they had the right to enslave West Africans and; 2) What prompted them to do so? ... In Chapter 2, Betty Wood stresses that the racism shown toward West Africans was based on the religious beliefs of the English. ... In chapter 5, Betty Wood says that slavery became a very important part of the social structure. ... Throughout this book, Betty Wood focuses mainly on the economical reasons that...
This book is about the Thomas Jefferson. ... Halliday talked about his book Understanding Thomas Jefferson, published by HarperCollins. ... Some final chapters make especially neat work of the big historians who tried hard to ignore and dispute the Sally Hemings embarrassment, but Halliday makes the relationship understandable and very much of a piece with the rest of this great man's life. This book raised two basic questions about Thomas Jefferson. ... I would recommend this book even though it's not the greatest book, but it leaves great impression. ...
I have recently been given the opportunity to read an excerpt from a book written by Thaddeus Russell. The chapter I was given to look at was called "The Freedom of Slavery". ... Near the beginning of this chapter, the writer claims, "This is not an endorsement of slaveryit is an argument that many freedoms we now cherish were only available to slaves in early America, and that citizenship in the young republic was a terribly constrained thing....
He speaks of the events of debating about slavery in Missouri and in the other states at the time the book was placed. In this tragic book McLaurin talks the events that lead up to the night of June twenty third, the tragic event on June twenty third, and the trial and events that occurred after that event. In Chapter one of Celia, A Slave it begins by telling the readers about Robert Newsom, Celia's Master, and about his life prior to Celia. ...
In the book Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, he relays the message, to the entire country, about how horrible and degrading this actually was. ... He explains that he has no records of the exact date of his birth, but he estimates that he was between twenty-seven and twenty-eight years of age when he penned this book. ... That was proven throughout the entire book. Douglass describes a Reverend Rigby Hopkins in Chapter 10. ...
The first and most interesting point worth examining in William Wells Brown's narrative is how the title of his book is written. ... In Chapter XI, Brown writes of his first attempt to escape slavery by traveling to Canada and then adds, "American democracy behind, liberty ahead....
The book that I chose is Narrative Of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Douglass. ... The main character of this book is Frederick Douglass. ... In the first chapters he talks about horrible scenes he sees in his childhood. ...
"There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority; and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting." Whe...