Family life was an indispensable part of a slave's life. Family gave slaves a sense of identity and a purpose to life. ... Sexual abuse was also a lasting threat on the family. ... Family members could rarely intervene to prevent the abuse of another family member. ... They gleaned off of the sources at their disposal and learned how to more than survive by fostering strong family ties and having a common bond at church meeting which also provided the social interaction they craved. ...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Sethe was then put in prison and her and her family was saved from slavery. ... Now you might also argue that even at 124, the family does not seem happy, but it's Sethe's past that drags everyone else down around her. ... Then think of a free community with you living with your family and, of course like any family, you go through some hard times, but at least you don't have the fear of being alone. ... Later, her and Beloved merge and create a bond that made up for lost time, even getting so close that Denver had no room to squeeze in (Morrsion, 282-283). ... It was unfortunat...

• Word Count: 1739
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Slave children were often removed from their immediate family, perhaps, in effect, to destroy those bonds between mother and child and prevent any kind of cohesive group that could form together and rebel; it could also be that the masters simply did not feel that the bonds of family were necessary among slaves after all, most slaveholders saw their slaves as little more than animals that happened to be able to speak. While Douglass makes remarks from time to time about a certain Uncle or Aunt throughout the book, one gets the feeling that he is speaking of an informal bond, established more...

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In Andover, healthy farm animals perish for no apparent reason, families die from smallpox, diabolical and inhumane crimes are committed, and other natural events that the Puritan society considered to be supernatural. ... There were no masters watching over them; they were free to bond with each other and fight through slavery together. Of course, slavery was still unethical, but it creates room for a debate with a side that says that a lot of positive culture and family relations were created due to slavery and the natural cycle of day and night. ...

• Word Count: 1349
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His Family was hardworking and loving but the realities of living in poverty often made life hard for Jessie. ... The thought of his family being worried about him made him extremely tense. ... Many thoughts crossed his mind, his family, himself, the people around him, and what mysterious journey lies ahead. ... The two boys developed a bond towards one another, friends they were, a black and a white being equal was rare back then. ... He told his mother and family about the entire trip until the horrors of the story made his mother take it no longer. ...

• Word Count: 1821
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• Grade Level: High School

FAMILY: Hostile to family life slavery uprooted many Africans from their homeland and their extended family ties. ... African "promiscuity" was seen as proof that family life did not exist in Africa as Europeans knew it. However, this could not have been further from the truth, family ties and kinship was an integral part of African culture. Within some African societies females were highly prized, as they were the means by which status, kinship and family could be acquired. ... In Jamaica the word shipmate was used by a slave and meant "brother" or "sister" a word of affection used to ...

• Word Count: 2095
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Such details as birth dates, family ties among slaves and parentage, which are basic for constructing an identity, were withheld from slaves in order to prevent them from establishing a sense of self that could lead to alliances or organized rebellions. ... The two authors differ from each other in this case because Jacobs has no problem with identifying herself, she knows her parentage and her age and even has childhood memories of her parents and family. ... Jacobs would have liked to believe that the bond of gender was stronger than the racial differences, so she tried to evoke agency among...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Unlike South Africa where there was a strong sense of tribal unity or in Brazil where slaves were imported relatively frequently giving them a sense of family and a bond with each other, American slaves were second or third generation slaves who new nothing of there culture or native lands and who where stripped from there family at a early age. ...

• Word Count: 2418
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The blacks felt encumbered by what the whites thought of as religious norms, and were discouraged to fully adopt Christianity when they couldn't even speak in church, a common give-and-take characteristic among traditional African worship.18 The inability for most blacks to disassociate the messenger with the message, like blacks such as Frederick Douglas were able to do, prevented them from fully accepting Christianity and created resentment towards whites and their religion.19 This antipathy is illustrated in a letter from a freed slave to his master, dealing with the effect that the ...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate