An intermittent presence in his life, died when Douglas was around 10 years old. ... His mother, her name was Harriet Bailey and she died when Douglass was only seven years old. ... From chapter one to chapter four, Douglass introduces of to the horrors of slavery. ... Chapter six: In chapter six, Douglass is really surprised by his new owner whose name was Sophia Auld. According to Douglass she never owned a slave before and she didn't know how evil the slaves were treated with the other masters. ...

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

Esther is out of her comfort zone when she goes to confront Barlo about her romantic feelings for him, when someone remarks 'so that's how the dictie niggers does it'.6 A dictie is defined as a black person who behaves as though they are white, is educated, or a black person who moves out of their racial or gender boundaries. ... Toomer continually struggled with his own identity 'I wrote a poem called "The First American", the idea of which was that here in America we are in the process of forming a new race, that I was one of the first conscious members of this race&#...

• Word Count: 3347
• Approx Pages: 13

He and his wife are childless, but adopt "Tom" when the judge's brother, Percy Driscoll, dies. ... Colonel Cecil Burleigh Essex dies the same year as Percy Driscoll. ... Slaves are seen in this novel as animalistic creatures ("He was a fairly human man towards slaves and other animals - (14), dependent on the good will of their "master-, and always in fear of being "sold down the river-. - Being "sold down the river- meant having to work under the worst circumstances imagined by a slave further South, down the river Mississippi. - At first we are introduced to the slave Roxana whom...

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

Also in the beginning stages of this chapter the whites began to become enraged due to the fact that blacks were given the right to vote and there were more blacks in the population then whites, so when the votes came about the blacks were voting for the republicans whom would be fighting for black people's rights, the ratio is said to be 4:1 blacks. ... Years later Pud would die in a car accident in 1924 leaving his wife Francis and their three boys Willie, Fred, James to fend for themselves and move to Augusta Georgia. ...

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