It is very sad in a way, yet it proves how adamantly they believed in what they were doing with there lifes if they were willing to do it for no recognition. ... For instance, take this passage from "Song of Myself". ... He speaks that he is at peace and that there is no reason to question it. ... If this is how Whitman feels at this point in his life I do not see how human casualty would bother him. ... The manner in which Whitman deals with death in "Lilacs" indicates how deeply depressed he is since the war and the president's assassination. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At age thirteen Douglass bought his first book, The Columbian Orator, consisting of various essays and speeches having to do with democracy and liberty. Douglass saw reading and knowledge as a path to freedom; it opened his mind and made him question the slave system. ... His intelligence and incredible speaking abilities led people to question his former reputation as a slave, "the Liberator wrote that many people in the audience refused to believe his stories: How a man, only six years out of bondage, and who had never gone to school could speak with suck eloquence- with such precision of la...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His eloquent words about his treatment as a slave were a powerful weapon against slavery; however, as his oratory grew more polished, audiences began to question whether he had ever been a slave, which gave Douglass another reason to write his book. ... Even among slaveholders, starving a slave "is regarded as the most aggravated development of meanness The rule is, no matter how coarse the food, only let there be enough of it" (58-59). ... Douglass gives an excellent example of such hypocritical actions: "I have seen [Captain Auld] tie up a lame young woman, and whip her with a heavy cow s...

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• Grade Level: High School

In effect, her passage would mark the end of the Grierson lineage and in a way mirrored the end of the "Old South." ... Along with the grandeur that the Grierson house posed, came power and prominence with the Grierson name. ... This is another indication how Miss Emily chose not to accept the truth that there was a new sheriff in town and could not let go of the "Old Southern" sheriff, Colonel Sartoris. ... When Miss Emily, a survivor of the Old South and Homer Barron, a northerner of the New South, meet, Miss Emily's dignity was put into question. ... Faulkner presents us with many s...

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Lincoln and Douglas shows how they deal with race indicates two different directions regarding civil and political rights for blacks in Illinois, where Douglas will use race not only to affirm existing white supremacy but to reinforce it. ... The conflicts that arose between pro-slavery and anti-slavery in the aftermath of the act's passage led to the period of violence known as the Bleeding Kansas.6 Lincoln believed that Congress had the power to determine the slavery question, and that applying popular sovereignty to the slavery question would teach Americans that as long as people vote...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Blacks saw emancipation as their opportunity to become involved with society without the worry of being owned by someone. ... "The idea of white supremacy in the South began with the planter's intention of keeping the idea of slavery. ... With these contracts, planters extended authority and presided over all aspects of the lives of blacks. ... Blacks would labor the entire season only to be left with the feeling of despair that was identical to slavery. ... "The main purpose of Freedman's Bureau was to settle questions between them and their employers, and take care of its patrons t...

• Word Count: 1876
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• Grade Level: High School

Prince and her female contemporaries - many of whom also wrote slave narratives - used their voices to promote change and question the tenet England's civilized. ... Each of these texts challenged the beliefs of English colonialists and abolitionists alike, while rendering strong anti-slavery messages that transcend controversy and exemplify the how invaluable the female voice was to the campaign. ... As with the other criteria for her writing, Prince complies with Pringle's demands for an image of Christ-like piety. ... The idea that a slave being raped by her master is a reflec...

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I think it is important to begin with a look at how emancipation was arrived at, as it was not a simple process, due to the efforts of one man. ... Even Chase, the most radical on emancipation, was impressed at how far Lincoln had reached." ... It I believe is clear that there is no absolute view of how Lincoln approached emancipation. ... He was faced with many groups with different aims. ... Thus Lincoln was required to be very careful about how he managed the question of emancipation. ...

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The delegates had to decide; how big the government should be, what type of government, what powers it should be given, and what powers it should not have. ... The Northern shipping industry could still make a lot of money with the continuing slave trade. ... The south did a lot of business with England and France. After the invention of the cotton gin the south increased their production to keep up with the demands from overseas. The high demand for cotton and how easy it was to produce discouraged the growth of southern industry. ...

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By the 1840s and 1850s, North and South had each evolved extreme positions that had as much to do with serving their own political interests as with the morality of slavery." 4 This once again, demonstrates how the economic differences between the Northern and Southern states, led to serious tensions between the two. ... Jefferson addresses the issue of state rights in his writings "As the federal government grabs more and more power, the question arises: what's the point of having states? ... Under the Constitution, the Articles were replaced with a political system that consisted o...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Aunt Chloe's cooking of various tasty dishes adds to the serene environment of the cabin and as we see Uncle Tom learning how to read and write from his young "Mas'r George,"" it seems as though there are no worries, hardships are unknown, and an utopia exists within the walls of the cabin. ... His name is Kunta Kinte and with the progress of time, we learn that he is bright, tenacious, bold, confident, and honest. ... In fact, Haley shows that these people showed great respect to their elders and to their ancestors with strongly established morals. ... One begins to question how Unc...

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