In order to gain his knowledge, Douglass would bribe poor, educated white children with bread and the children "in return, would give me [him] that more valuable bread of knowledge" (Douglass 101). ... With the proof given by slaves and other individuals, the knowledge that is gained with these literacy skills gives broad opportunities and pros to the individual receiving the skills. ...

• Word Count: 980
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Americans were trading guns, gunpowder, cloth, breads, pots and liquor in exchange for human lives. The term slave trade only emphasizes one viewpoint of the whole phenomenon and gives only a brief and biased description. The next term, forced migration, gives the viewpoint of Africans. ... The three terms used to describe the African Slave Trade; slave trade, forced migration and genocide, when looked at separately do not give a concise representation of what went on for so many hundreds of years. ...

• Word Count: 833
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Douglass educates himself and re-creates who he is throughout his life; so much so that in the end when he gives his speeches, people cannot believe he was ever a slave. ... Nor did he want his slaves to provide first-hand evidence against his prettified picture of slavery, which would give the abolitionists more rhetorical ammunition against him. ... During errands, he bribed poor white boys with bread to give him short lessons. ... Douglass' direct style gives him an air of great credibility, implying that he did not exaggerate the suffering he describes. ...

• Word Count: 1047
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

He says that every man should have the right to eat the bread meaning that the declaration states all men are created equal yet makes it clear in is 4th debate that the white race is the almighty and makes African Americans look like peasants. ... This also gives the knowledge that being anti-slavery has nothing to do with racism and Lincoln himself could undoubtedly be prejudice. ... He told them that it was better for all races to give up on each other and stay separated.8 Overall, Abraham Lincoln was a racist because he believed that the African American race was so different from the w...

• Word Count: 1066
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Unfortunately, giving up belongings is the only thing he could do to cure his urge to learn. ... Although reading wasn't against the law for Richard, he still had to give away money and steal food to succeed like Frederick. ... "My life as a Negro in America had led me to feel that the problem of human unity was more important that bread, more important than physical living itself; for I felt that without a common bond uniting men...there could be no living worthy of being called human"" (Wright 260). ...

• Word Count: 1141
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

For example, all African Americans from the South eat collard greens and corn bread. ... The history of black families is told through the story of the slaveholder and, thus, gives information relevant to the business of slavery "everything that measurable. ...

• Word Count: 1096
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate