The book has to main themes, "Remembering the Past" and "Reinventing the Present.... 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. ...

• Word Count: 725
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Harriet wrote the book to awaken people to the horrors of slavery. ... The book starts in Kentucky on the farm of Mr. ... They settle in Canada where George gets a job as a mechanic. ... Many Senators who read the book demanded slavery be abolished. ... The book shows that black people weren't inferior. ...

• Word Count: 606
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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? ... Throughout this book, Betty Wood focuses mainly on the economical reasons that West Africans were enslaved. ... Based on her book, my thought is that slavery began because of the racial differences between the English and the West Africans, and the English were not able to justify these differences thus leading...

• Word Count: 982
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

That's what Sandra Forrester writes about, in the book Sound the Jubilee. The main characters in the book are Maddie, a young slave girl, and her family, Titus, Ella, Angeline, and Pride. ... Once the Yankees take over the island, the government gives aid to all the runaway slaves and provides them with jobs and the resources to start new lives. I think the author shows how the season changes very clearly throughout the book. ... The S.C.I. point that relates most to this book is The Nature of Life is to Grow. ...

• Word Count: 359
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

The novel begins when the family, living in Africa, is captured and shipped to America, and through the course of the book, the reader journey's along with the family from freedom, to slavery, and to freedom once more. " In July, 1753, the family was captured in Sierra Leone and brought to the United States on a slave ship. ... In May 1930 Luvenia Lewis suffered the lack for equality when she lost her job. ... There were different ways people interpreted the Africans in different ways some lost their job, others protested and marched, and others simply talked to someone about equality fo...

• Word Count: 439
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The book, "Celia, a Slave," gives detail accounts of what happened in a young slave life form the time she was fourteen until her execution. ... Typically females got the easier of the jobs like picking cotton, cooking, cleaning or taking care of the main house; whereas males were forced to do more strenuous tasks. ... "Celia a Slave," was a good book that displayed what a slave trial was like. I enjoyed this book because it was from a different perspective that I have never read or learned about before. ... This was a very god book about the woman's side of things during slavery, that I ...

• Word Count: 749
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In a sophisticated way controlling peoples, thoughts, jobs and religion. ... The author's point of view is that we are not free.The author cites excerpts from George Orwell's book 1984. ... I've asked people whats the difference between an Iraqi history book and an American history book. ...

• Word Count: 894
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Abina and The Important Men is a book separated into two parts: first, a graphic novel and second a translated, more detailed, historical text. ... Any historian's job is to reconstruct the past as accurately as possible, but their own values and dispositions inevitably influence the underlying message their work provides. In the first part of Abina and The Important Men, Getz and Clarke recreated the past through a comic-book style format. ... In the latter part of the book, Getz and Clarke take a more traditional approach to narrating the story. ... For example, this section of the b...

• Word Count: 1018
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Uncle Tom's Cabin By: Harriet Beecher Stowe Throughout the book Uncle Tom's Cabin the setting changes.It starts out in Kentucky.Tom is later sold to New Orleans and then to a plantation up the Red River.At each new place Tom goes his faith in God is put to the test,but Tom stays pious and refuses to turn away from God.In Kentucky Tom is owned by Andy Shelby,a kindly master,who has fallen in to debt and is forced to sell his slaves.Tom is sold to a slave trader named Haley.He ends up in New Orleans in the possession of a romantic and flighty man by the name of St.Clare. ... Ophelia ,a...

• Word Count: 1079
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout this book Charles faces through unbelievable problems that he has never ever encountered in his life before. ... The author of the book is Joseph Conrad and his writing style differs to the ones of others. ... The author has chosen a very good and entertaining title for the book because when you read it you think the story is about something else. ... The picture he chose on his title is also very entertaining because it emphasizes the book perfectly. The author has done a good job on picking his conflicts because it relates with our real life and also in our "distinct society." ...

• Word Count: 1164
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the book Uncle Tom's Cabin the setting changes.It starts out in Kentucky.Tom is later sold to New Orleans and then to a plantation up the Red River.At each new place Tom goes his faith in God is put to the test,but Tom stays pious and refuses to turn away from God.In Kentucky Tom is owned by Andy Shelby,a kindly master,who has fallen in to debt and is forced to sell his slaves.Tom is sold to a slave trader named Haley.He ends up in New Orleans in the possession of a romantic and flighty man by the name of St.Clare. ... Ophelia ,an honest and incredibly independent woman,lives w...

• Word Count: 1060
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

I think Twain did a good job showing of people's characters such as Bogg's the way he talks helps to illustrate him being drunk. ... I think Twain knew very well Southern dialect and must of spent a lot of time down south because I think he did a very good job in writing how people would of spoke back then....

• Word Count: 917
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The most famous was the use of whipping and other forms of punishment given to slaves who did not complete their jobs successfully. ... I feel this book showed slavery in a very bland kind of way. ... Also, after reading this book I feel that I did not get any sort of biased from Mr. ... You cannot escape the cruelty of slavery and it is in the back of your mind as you read this book. ... This book had everything needed to fully comprehend the full concept of the slavery labor system. ...

• Word Count: 1152
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

There free blacks helped them to find jobs and shelter and to begin life over again as free men and women. ... The book does have a small anti-slavery message, but there is still a negative view of slavery in her book. ... The book does not talk about the horrors of slavery. "Oroonoko" tries to explain how slavery works on page 5 of the book by making ordering slaves seem as simple as mail-ordering shirts from a factory. ...

• Word Count: 928
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Douglass's book is written for any non-slave. The book is a story of Douglass's life and difficulties of being a slave. ... Jacobs wrote her book for non-slave women. ... Many female slaves had similar jobs to the males and similar beatings, but males never had to worry about sexual advances made by their male masters. ... Jacobs said in her book, "He told me I was his property; that I must be subject to his will in all things." ...

• Word Count: 1011
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

While some southern slaves were used as domestic servants, this was a job more for Northern slaves (US Narrative 247). ... This book is written mostly for slaves; Northup wants them to know a story of inspiration and truth. This book was sad yet inspirational and offered a whole new view on slavery that is not common. ... Everyone should read this five star book to experience a rush of emotion and a happy ending....

• Word Count: 900
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Money is issue that can dictate what goes in a history book. ... In a book called public opinion and the teaching of history in the u.s. pierce tells us that some things are left out due to censorship, meaning some things are to vulgar are graphic to be told. ... Teachers can also hide behind textbooks making their job safe. ... By hiding behind a book and there is ever any question about material they are teaching they can easily defend their work. ...

• Word Count: 1184
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Although non-religious slaveholders may have worked their slaves just as hard, they usually gave better tools for the job and better meals. ... After many years of practice and gaining knowledge from others, he learned to read and write with the help of copies he made from a Webster's spelling book. ... Beyond the subject of slavery, however, this book expresses other important values of life. I think the most important thing I learned from this book is that education leads to success and determination never fails....

• Word Count: 1179
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Henry Wienceks book. ... These tunnels allow slaves to roam around the mansion doing their essential jobs without being seen. ... This switch would change the relationships between slaves since unlike tobacco where it was a simple action performed to complete the job, making wheat required various skills. ... " (Wiencek) While retraining a new work force he still needed some laborers to carry out difficult jobs causing the slaves to become more segment and hierarchical. ...

• Word Count: 1141
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The job tasks were various as they were numerous. Mary Prince explains how one of her co-slave workers Hetty had many jobs. ... The woman jobs were just as much as the men so even though their work was different, they still put in just as much work as the men. ... This meeting had a great impression on my mind, and led my spirit to the Moravian church; so that when I got back to town, I went and prayed to have my name put down in the Missionaries' book; and I followed the church earnestly every opportunity. ...

• Word Count: 1246
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Davis claims that although the black woman performed jobs that "expressed the socially conditioned inferiority of women" she was still exempt from designations of femininity that would have otherwise sheltered her from carrying out more arduous, "manly" tasks. ... The first comprehensive book to be written about enslaved African American women is titled Ar'n't I a Woman by Deborah White. ... In Edward Baptist's book The Half Has Never Been Told, he describes the formation of song circles that would take place during these gatherings, in which women would di...

• Word Count: 1150
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

In his book, he details Columbus' in a different limelight; outlining the cruelties committed by the Spaniards during their time on the different islands. ... De Las Casas' reinforcement of the fact that these Indians were innocent and were good to the Christians was vital to his book. ... Two different men tasked with two different jobs, but unfortunately Columbus never was able (nor did he try) to find a peaceful resolution that Bartolome would have agreed with....

• Word Count: 1215
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This was a nice change of pace for Douglass because the Auld family treated him better as his only jobs were to run errands and take care of the baby Tommy. ... On January 1, 1836, Frederick Douglass was ready and willing to escape enslavement, but armed white men put him with other associates in jail when they were planning their escape in early April.1 Hugh Auld released him from jail after a week.1 After a while, Douglass was allowed to work at a shipyard where Hugh Auld worked and was able to keep part of his wage.1 It was at this time when Douglass married Anna Douglass.1 On September 3...

• Word Count: 724
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Then in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation was issued which made slavery illegal in the states the rebelled and allowed black slaves to serve in the army and get other jobs, or continue to work on the plantations, as employees making money. Harriet Beecher Stowe's book, Uncle Tom's Cabin showed all different aspects of what the slaves had to go through and the way they worked with masters at their sides at all times. ...

• Word Count: 899
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

When he claims to have gotten his act together later in the book and attempts to regain custody of his estranged son, he proceeds to abuse and beat Huck every time he returns home. ... Mark Twain does an excellent job depicting his views on slavery throughout this story. ...

• Word Count: 908
• Approx Pages: 4