Joseph Ellis opens up "Founding Brothers" by explaining "No event in American history which was so improbable at the time has seemed to inevitable in retrospect as the American Revolution" (Ellis 3). ... He believed that if the brothers put an end to slavery it would cause political and economical problems, which would in turn corrupt the union it had already created. In order to protect the newly established union, the brothers kept any discussion about slavery on the down low and hidden from the public eyes at all times. ... When the founding brothers "created a seal...

• Word Count: 1593
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ellis asserts in "Founding Brothers" that 1789-1799 was "the most crucial and consequential [decade] in American History [T]he subsequent political history of the United States then became an oscillation between new versions of the old tension . ... (Ninety percent of the population of slaves in the United States was found in the South.) ... By remaining silent, our founding brothers passed on the most difficult dispute to the next generation. ...

• Word Count: 1518
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, both the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Urban League (NUL) were founded by blacks and whites during this time. ... His step-father soon found work for Booker and his brother John. ... After working in the coal mine for some time, his mother found a position for him as a house boy for the Ruffner Family. ... There he prepared many students to study at the Hampton Institute including his own brother. ...

• Word Count: 1450
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in a group. I had never seen my brothers or sisters; though I had sometimes heard of them" (Douglass p48). Soon after being introduced to his brothers and sisters, his grandmother was forced to discretely leave him. ... "Riding from Boston to Albany, I found myself in a large car, filled with passengers. ...

• Word Count: 1689
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Also, a master would find it difficult to whip his own children or to watch his white children whip their "brother."" ... Hugh Auld, which was the brother of his old master's son-in-law. ... Auld found out and forbid his wife to teach him anything. ...

• Word Count: 1899
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Because of incidents like this one slave's had always found something good to say about their master even if it was a lie because they never knew with whom they were speaking to. ... Hugh Auld, the brother of Thomas Auld. ... Auld had ordered these teachings to stop at once when he found out about them because it was said to be unlawful and unsafe for a slave to be taught to read. ... Douglass later on in slavery found himself keeping money that he was to turn into his masters by the end of a workweek. ...

• Word Count: 1742
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

"I found no severe trial in my departure. ... I had two sisters and one brother that lived in the same house with me; but the early separation of us from our mother had well nigh blotted the fact of our relationship from our memories. ... If, however, I found in my new home hardship, hunger, whipping, and nakedness, I had the consolation that I should not have escaped any one of them by staying. (5.6)....

• Word Count: 1590
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• Grade Level: High School

Set in the palaces and boardrooms of Europe and in the villages of central Africa, it tells the story of the tragedy that took place during Leopold's so called rule, a tragedy that is so familiar to African-Americans, being told of our African brothers residing in the homeland. ... The soldiers were slaves who had been press-ganged through hostage taking, or stolen as children and brought up in child colonies founded by Leopold and the Catholic Church. ...

• Word Count: 2087
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the history of the United States nothing has brought more shame to the face of America than the cold, calculated method of keeping black people in captivity. People from England who migrated to America used many different methods to enslave black people and passed them down through the children. ...

• Word Count: 2041
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• Grade Level: High School

Lazarus died and his sisters, Mary and Martha, came to Jesus and asked him to raise their brother from the dead, and he did. ... Prior to giving this speech Douglass spent two years studying the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and especially found the Fifth Amendment to be contradictory in practice. ...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His first job was as a printer's apprentice, but after two years of working there, he decided to join his brother's newspaper business. ... When he arrived in London he found out that he only had one dollar and that dollar was only going to last him for twenty four hours. ... When henry walked out, he opened the envelope the guys had given him and found a £1,000,000 bank note inside. ... Huck's father steals Huck when he found out that Mrs. ... They found a dead man lying in the corner. ...

• Word Count: 1889
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Because the young Douglass had a natural charm that many people found engaging, he was chosen to be the companion of Daniel Lloyd, the youngest son of the plantation's owner. ... One day in 1826 Lucretia told Frederick that he was being sent to live with her brother-in-law, Hugh Auld, who managed a ship building firm in Baltimore, Maryland. ... This device in some measure defeated itself - since more than one man could be found to answer the same general description. ...

• Word Count: 1950
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Faulkner seems to capture the moment in a boy's life when he is just starting to understand the events going on around him, unlike his brother and sister who just naively play. ... He found the importance in the simplicity of situations and how they stick with people through life, building up cha...

• Word Count: 1764
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Upon finishing my copy of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, I have come to realize many new ideas and topics. I have discovered details about the evils of slavery that I never knew existed. I now know what it is like to be in the shoes of a slave. To hear of the horrible ties that c...

• Word Count: 1491
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

There she met important members of the abolitionist movement, including Frederick Douglass and George Benson, brother-in-law of the antislavery leader William Lloyd Garrison. ... I found it very astonishing what Sojourner Truth did in order to get where she ended up. ...

• Word Count: 1430
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• Grade Level: High School

Despite her wish for peace in the city, Harriet found herself agreeing more and more with their views. ... Soon after, her dearly beloved husband, Calvin, died, followed soon after by her oldest brother and sister. ...

• Word Count: 1635
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• Grade Level: High School

In Jamaica the word shipmate was used by a slave and meant "brother" or "sister" a word of affection used to demonstrate the strength of the bond forged on the passage between slaves. ... An Obeah, male or female was an important person in African society, the Obeah was able to ward of evil, expressing community values they articulated themselves through rituals that any whites watching found difficult to understand. ... The whites feared these people because of their strong influence over the slaves and tried everything they could think of to abolish the "heathen" ritual punishing anyone they...

• Word Count: 2095
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This school was founded by her uncle, William Watkins. ... I would sleep, dear friends, where bloated Might Can rob no man of his dearest right; My rest shall be calm in any grave Where none can call his brother a slave. ...

• Word Count: 2134
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Once fugitives crossed into Ohio, they found themselves at a place where slavery was looked at much differently; southern Ohio was home to Quakers and others who voluntarily took run-aways in (Cayton, 273). ...

• Word Count: 1997
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