The Novel: "Pudd'nhead Wilson-, set in the 1830s, centers on the switching of two babies born on the same day - one the result of miscegenation, the other the legitimate son of a white slave owner."" ... Next to taking care of her master's son Tom, Roxy also has to look after her own son Chambers. ... In order to save her son Chambers from growing up to become a slave, she switches him with Tom who looks just like Chambers. Her son, now called "Tom-, grows up as a white man and Tom, now called "Chambers- grows up as a slave. ... He is the father of Roxy's son, Chambers. ...

• Word Count: 3258
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During the craziness that would be going on in the county Aaron would bring to the slave world a son whom he would name Clifton aka Pud. ... In fact people were afraid of James on account of all the things his father was known for doing. James wouldn't stray too far off from his father's past. ... He would soon marry and have a son named Butch. ... Willie would go throughout life without a father figure just as his father did, and grandfather and great grandfather, and great great grandfather. ...

• Word Count: 3198
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The djam , or slaves, include the djam- bur , who are slaves of the king; the djam neg nday , slaves of one's mother; and the djam neg bây , slaves of one's father. ... The slave of the mother's household was the captive of our mother, as opposed to the slave of our father. ... Due to the matriarchal and polygamous regime, we feel him closer to us, because he belongs to our mother, than the slave of the father, who is at an equal distance, socially speaking, from all the children of the same father and different mothers. As can easily be seen, the slave of the father would beco...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Never knowing his mother or even the identity of his father, he was born a slave and escaped to the north when he was twenty years old. ... Frederick's father, however, was white. Color was the only fact he knew about his father. Whispered opinions claimed that his master was his father, but the truth (or lack thereof) of these rumors was never known... After the performance of her days work, she would sneak out and travel the whole distance on foot just to see her little baby son, hoping he would sense his mother's love. ...

• Word Count: 5595
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Many people believe that the son's of Noah are actually nations themselves and not individual persons and naturally others believe the reverse. With the way the story is interpreted, it gives the idea that the sons are individuals and not nations of people. ... There is a biblical story that states Ham, the second son of Noah, was the ancestor of the African race, which is agreed upon by many scholars. ... Then another interpretation taken from the Bible states that Noah was drunken from wine and lay naked in a tent and Ham was the first to see this and did not cover his father. Inste...

• Word Count: 3801
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It wasn't until Hawkins son made his voyage to Africa in 1562 after the British government gathered wind of their European neighbours generated wealth that they began to involve themselves in slavery. ...

• Word Count: 2679
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jean Toomer's Cane was published in 1923, a miscellany composed of fifteen poems, seven stories, six prose vignettes and a play that all focus on Negro life during the 1920's. The book was focused on the primitive modern sense of what it meant to be an African-American during the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance spanned the 1920's and 'it was the period when the Negro was in vogue'.1 New York had become 'the capital of the black world'2 and Harlem was the site of black economic power and consciousness. What is now considered to be the Harlem Renai...

• Word Count: 3347
• Approx Pages: 13

Despite the nights of waking up to the cries of his aunt's whipping sessions, despite the brainwashing of white supremacists, despite having no mother or father, despite the rations of meager amounts of food and clothing, and despite the unspeakable cruelties, he survived. ... The maternal instinct and perils of Eliza to keep her son, the generosity and maternal loss of Mrs. ...

• Word Count: 2701
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The communities of New England often kept a close watch on the families that lived within them, which supported the "English system where governance, socialization, and social welfare and economic activities all fell within the purview of the domestic household."4 "Town fathers" often kept a close watch on the families, especially in the case in which a family was having trouble, or could not pay its bills. ... The farms of the north were based outside the towns but the "Farmers were expected to live together in villages, within eyeshot of a meeting house that doubled as chapel and town hall...

• Word Count: 2981
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be an American slave? These two questions are ideal thematic rhetorical statements that both Crevecoeur and Douglass write about in various ways. Crevecoeur was not born in the United States, but once he arrived here, he was a free man who made a life for him and his family. On the other hand, Frederick Douglass was born in the United States, but was confined to be a lowly life form other than a human; seen only as an animal used for work, he experienced life from a different perspective. ...

• Word Count: 2927
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Douglass thinks that he was born around the year 1817 and that his father was his white master named Captain Anthony. ... When he was about seven or eight years old, he was given to Captain Anthony's son-in-law's brother, Hugh Auld, who lived in Baltimore. ...

• Word Count: 2694
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Kunta shows great respect and admiration for his father and dreams of becoming just like Omoro when he becomes a man. ... After classes are over, they tend the goats, which they do with extreme alertness for they are fully responsible for their fathers' goats. ...

• Word Count: 4104
• Approx Pages: 16

This is just a small example of the doubt and hatred that was bestowed on the African American soldiers. However, during the war, they proved themselves to be brave and courageous men on and off the battlefield on many occasions. Despite deep prejudices and harsh criticisms from the white society, these men were true champions of patriotism. The cause of the Civil War was tension between the North and the South. The sectional division between the areas began in colonial times, largely resulting from geographical differences. ...

• Word Count: 4026
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School