"Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave," (1847) is a fascinating and emotional account of the horrors of American slavery. ... Brown provides readers with narratives of daily life on the plantations, at slave auctions and during the dark hours of individual pain but what makes his narratives so unique is his constant reference to all these situations in the paradoxical realm of democracy and religion. ... In Chapter XI, Brown writes of his first attempt to escape slavery by traveling to Canada and then adds, "American democracy behind, liberty ahead." To think of the Un...

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It took the American democracy several years to enforce equality among whites and blacks. ... In his poem entitled "America", he speaks of the contradictory lifestyle that Americans lived. He refers to America as hell, or a place like it. ... I believe he named this poem "America" to suggest the inconsistency of the American values and the actual American way. There was also an African American author by the name of Langston Hughes. ...

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During my childhood I used to hear about the United States of America as the country of freedom, democracy and of course land of the rich people. ... But when Chuck spoke last week, he certainly didn't speak of the land of the freedom, equality or democracy. I already have heard about the issues he pointed out, however, hearing someone's personal experiences, especially if this someone is as passionate as Chuck, made the Utopian American Dream dissappear for me. ... Chuck also brought up facts from history such as the segregation between the white race and African American race. .....

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Gates and her enmity towards the atrocities of Adolf Hitler, while at the same time she hated blacks, and the prejudice of the American court system in the 1930's by saying they stand for justice but not accepting the statement themselves. ... It is also very prejudice when she mentions democracy, and the way that she is not at all democratic when it comes to the treatment of African Americans. "What does DEMOCRACY mean?" ... The American Courts of the 1930's were also prejudice. Truth and Justice were held as the most basic right for Americans. ...

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Adult African Americans were seldom afforded titles of respect by whites, as described by Mr. ... Why should these men fight for a democracy that in theory treated them as equals but in reality oppressed their race? No true democracy would result until the rights of African-Americans were placed back into their own hands. This American dissention was especially dangerous and important because of its un-American stance. ... These enlightened individuals fought harder than ever to seek the "democracy" that they fought for overseas, but were denied in their homeland. ...

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Dubois, and even Frantz Fanon spoke and wrote eloquently and passionately against racial oppression, calling America and Europe to accountability for their democratic and humanitarian ideals by appealing to, in Abraham Lincoln's paraphrased words, "the better angels of men's natures."" ... Even King, though he never repudiated nonviolence, began to question the effectiveness of such tactics in the face of America's social, political, and economic violence towards Black people. The fact remains that democracy in America can coexist, and indeed has coexisted with the oppression ...

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First of all, Bambara presents to us a very unusual figure or character, Miss Moore, an African American woman, who has a college degree which was very rare at that time because this story took place somewhere after the segregation ends in the U.S history. ... Moreover, Sugar realized that she had an erroneous concept of what a democracy should be: "I think that this is not much of a democracy if you ask me. ...

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. / That's American" (32-33). This means that even though the speaker is black and the instructor is white; they are the same in the aspect of being an American. ... Because of the white over black democracy in the hierarchy, he too was placed above black people. ...

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For instance, American and physician Samuel Morton (1799-1851) had the largest collection of skulls in his possession. ... Just like the white Americans took advantage of Africans as slaves because of their underdeveloped society. ... There was absolutely no equality or democracy in the colonized countries. ...

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1980: A Turning Point in Miami's History With promising dreams of political asylum in a democracy, Miami was that magic city Cuban and Haitian exiles were looking for. ... The newcomers were competing with Black Americans for labor jobs, and obviously the Blacks did not accept that. ...

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