In the book "All God's Children" author Fox Butterfield delivered his point of view and his theory on the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence. ... He also wrote All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence about the child criminal Willie Bosket. ... So the book starts off in South Carolina in the Edgefield County where the American Revolution just ended. ... Aaron and his family were sold about three or four times until they were purchased by a slave owner by the name of Bosket, that's when they received their surname B...

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• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In several of her novels, she has treated themes of God and humanity. ... One might think from this staggering dedication that this book is going to focus purely on slavery. ... It had been a long time since anybody (good-willed whitewoman, preacher speaker or newspaperman) sat at their table, their sympathetic voices called liar by the revulsion in their eyes. ... She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glory bound pure. ... This was a group of people who had suffered tremendously, and were bound by that suffering. ...

• Word Count: 3712
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

In several of her novels, she has treated themes of God and humanity. ... One might think from this staggering dedication that this book is going to focus purely on slavery. ... It had been a long time since anybody (good-willed whitewoman, preacher speaker or newspaperman) sat at their table, their sympathetic voices called liar by the revulsion in their eyes. ... She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glory bound pure. ... This was a group of people who had suffered tremendously, and were bound by that suffering. ...

• Word Count: 3715
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

A book can be the window to a whole new world. ... Never has a book of history opened my eyes wider, captivated me more, than the story of Malcom Little. ... A home were Malcom was the "mascot," a home were the word "nigger" was so common Malcom began to think it was his nickname. ... Things were going relatively well until Malcom broke the watch he had stolen from one of their jobs. When Malcom took the watch to the jeweler, he recognized it from a police report he had received. ...

• Word Count: 4036
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

INTRODUCTION In 1988, the now-bestselling author and former lawyer John Grisham had his first book published. ... PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER The book offers a variety of social commentary, especially on race-related issues. ... (Baldassarro) It is certainly not likely that a book that has no current-day relevance anymore would receive such a treatment. 4. ... The most extreme form of continued racism in the novel is the return of the Ku Klux Klan to Clanton halfway through the book. ... "[T]he Kluxers listened intently to this ignorant redneck. [] they had also read the papers and watched T...

• Word Count: 4938
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Horton (2002) says Blacks were scouts, interpreters, navigators, and military men, and were among those who first encountered Native Americans. ... Slaves were confined for two to three months in irons in the hold of a slave ship during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean called the Middle Passage, where thousands died on their way to the colonies. The vast majority of Africans brought to the British colonies worked as agricultural laborers; many were brought to the colonies specifically for their experience in rice growing, cattle herding, or river navigation (Collier, 1985). ... The movemen...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate