She was the daughter of Isaac and Betsy Bailey, both colored, and quite dark. ... He was not allowed to be present during her illness, death, or burial. "She was long gone before I knew anything about it I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger" (Douglass 15). ... His incredibly influential speeches, debates, and interviews continued, about every other day for thirty years, until his death in 1895. ...

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

My time periods start in the 1850's to the 1900. Every owner is different. One master may give their slaves rest period once in awhile, while others may work slaves to their limits. There were some slaves who were punished for little things and some were barely punished at all, but they all did g...

• Word Count: 2553
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

When revealing the darker side to servitude though, she does not necessarily petition to those of authority who can bring about change due to her lack of firsthand knowledge and the additional elements of fiction that skew the integrity of the slave experience. ...

• Word Count: 2701
• Approx Pages: 11

Orlando Patterson noted that this tradition was forced upon slaves to mark the morning of their own death: 'the shorn head of a slave was a permanent condition of liminality and that he the slave must forever mourn his own death'.20 Toomer uses the aesthetic of hair to show the ways in which his characters mourn their own social death within society, that they essentially have no social position because they are Negro. ...

• Word Count: 3347
• Approx Pages: 13

Taj had witnessed the deaths of friends and family, He was only seven years old at the time. as was asked to kill other soildiers and civilians. ... This may seem like a dark sort of a children's book but I like the author's goal of making the youth aware of the injustices happening around the world. ...

• Word Count: 5222
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in the slave ship, moral and physical suffering, darkness and the violence towards the women slaves. "Voyage Through Death / To Life Upon these Shores" symbolizes the apex of the construction of the Middle Passage; this is an emphatic claim to life, signifying the arrival of a new people on the scene of the New World. ... There are also various critical comments, for example Gilroy who speaks about Turner's painting of 1840 cal...

• Word Count: 4160
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

When someone is forced to do anything against their will today it is easily forgotten about, but in the early 18th and 19th centuries not doing what you were told (even if you did not feel it is right) could result in a severe beating or even death. ...

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

Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman's book Time on the Cross, analyzes the Southern economy before and after the Civil War. The book's purpose is to show how important African Americans were to the Southern economy, and tries to "correct t...

• Word Count: 3223
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School