Advocates for States' Rights, and advocates for a strong central government, found themselves at a standstill with each other. ... It and pit brother against brother from 1861-1865. ... They gave the states the right to nullify any national laws that they found to be unconstitutional, and secede from the Union if wished. ... In contrast however, the South continued to be stuck in their old ways, and found the practice of slavery to be indispensable to their livelihoods. ...

• Word Count: 693
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But In the end Brown was captured and found guilty of treason against Virginia and was hung. ... Once she had got to Philadelphia she found work and made money. ... Then she had made another trip to get her brother and two other men. Then on her third try she had went back to get her husband but he had married someone else and she found other slaves to take back. ... Harriet Beecher Stowe's father was a pastor at a church and her brother was a preacher. ...

• Word Count: 732
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• Grade Level: High School

Visiting some friends she found her model for the fictional Shelby plantation in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Her brother, a traveling businessman, would bring back ugly tales of slavery in the Deep South, with which she was able to make the prototype of Simon Legree, basing him off a rough overseer whom Charles, her brother, had met on a Mississippi riverboat. ... While she was beginning the composition of Uncle Tom's Cabin her two brothers were preaching against slavery in their sermons and holding slave auctions to in order to give them their freedom. ...

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Soon after, she was in Philadelphia, where she found work and saved her money. ... She made the dangerous trip back to the South soon after to rescue her brother and two other men. ... However undaunted, she found other slaves seeking freedom and escorted them to the North. ...

• Word Count: 789
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• 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
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Jacobs grew up with a younger brother by the name of John S. ... After escaping to the North in 1842 at age 27, Harriet started working as a nursemaid, and in 1849 Harriet and her younger brother John began working in the Anti- Slavery office and reading room in Rochester, New York, and there they meet Fredrick Douglas, Amy Post, and many other abolitionists. ... Harriet Ann Jacobs passed away after a long life at the age of 84 on March 7, 1897, and is put to rest next to her brother in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... As for her two children, they and Harriet's youn...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He was left with his mother and four other brothers and sisters to take care of. ... From the start they were only to fight a defensive war but now with their newly found confidence they decided to attack Washington D.C. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

AT THE AGE OF SIX BESTY TOOK DOUGLASS TO THE LOLYD PLANTATION AMONG THEM WAS CHILDERN PLAYING THREE OF THEM WHERE DOUGLASS SIBILINGS HIS BROTHER PERRY, HIS SISTER"S SARAH AND ELIZABETH. ... LATER HE TAUGHT HIS SELF TO WRIT AND DO ARITHMETIC WHEN HE FOUND OUT THAT THIS WAS HIS PATH WAY TO FREDDOM HE MADE IT HIS GOAL TO LEARN. ...

• Word Count: 681
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress." - Harriet Jacobs Harriet Jacobs didn't have an ideal life she was born a slave and experienced many tragedies in her life. She never ga...

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• 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
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• Grade Level: High School

Douglass experienced the loss of his mother, and seeing the death of his brother. ... Unfortunately his master found out about this and forbid his wife to ever do such a thing. ... Douglass says, " he found religious sanction and support for his slaveholding cruelty." ...

• Word Count: 1066
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• Grade Level: High School

Along the road, they found education to be an important tool, as well. ... When he was seven, he was sent to work under his master's brother-in-law, Hugh Auld, in the city of Baltimore. ... He found help in New York City from Mr. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He met with his mother a few times as a very young boy, until her sick and untimely death, and was also separated from his brothers and sisters. ... His father found out, and told him if he didn't return to school that he would get a whipping. ... In conclusion, I found these narratives to be quite informative. ...

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• 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)....

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• Grade Level: High School

Whitney had one sister and two other brothers, who all lived in one house. ... Once they arrived to their destination Whitney had found out that the job that was offered to him would only pay about as much as he expected. ... Greene told him that he could live at their house until he had found a new job. ...

• Word Count: 1542
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• Grade Level: High School

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
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

St.Clare and his brother have a heated discussion about slavery while Eva asks her cousin to try to love his slave. ... I found this book slightly boring.It lacked compelling scenes but was incredibly influential when it was first written.It makes a powerful statement about slavery especially through the deaths of the slaves.Harriet Beecher Stowe was referred to by Abe Lincoln as the little woman who started the Civil War.She also pointed out that the people of the North not only needed to feel duty when they fought for the freedom of the slaves but love for them and the human race.Uncle Tom&#...

• Word Count: 1079
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• Grade Level: High School

He fulfills his promise only because he found a woman to love whom he was no expected, indeed not allowed to marry. ... The rumor was resurrected in 1873 when one of Sally Hemings" sons, Madison, claimed in a newspaper conference that he and his sister Harriet and two brothers, Beverley and Eston, were Jefferson's children. ...

• Word Count: 1502
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Walt Disney's father bounced from one job to the next, often needing to rely on his brother for financial support. ... After the war, he found joy in animation and decided to start his own business, which would later be one of the leading companies in the world. ...

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But the idea of freeing blacks is not breached in that discussion-- in fact, prior to his admission, Sherman denounces the view that his brother, John, would ever sympathize with abolitionists in his political campaign. ... In many respects, the founding of the Klu Klux Klan could be based on this very impetus. ...

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To me, America refuses to acknowledge or engage in any debate concerning its role in slavery at the beginning of its founding and the resulting attitudes it has towards its own Black African descendants. ... America should get off of its big brother pedestal and accept the blame for something it did. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Over the years passed we continued to have ownership my wife found out he knew how to read and write and that he knew how to speak out language as we do today. ... Just recently he began actually to write letters to his brothers and sisters he has in one of his past plantation. ...

• Word Count: 1065
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• Grade Level: High School

St.Clare and his brother have a heated discussion about slavery while Eva asks her cousin to try to love his slave. ... I found this book slightly boring.It lacked compelling scenes but was incredibly influential when it was first written.It makes a powerful statement about slavery especially through the deaths of the slaves.Harriet Beecher Stowe was referred to by Abe Lincoln as the little woman who started the Civil War.She also pointed out that the people of the North not only needed to feel duty when they fought for the freedom of the slaves but love for them and the human race.Uncle To...

• Word Count: 1060
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School