Most of the time he suffered from cold, having to sleep with no blankets, or a bed for that matter. He sometimes took a field sack to sleep in at night, but he was still cold. ... He saw people beat so bad, the blood ran for a half hour at a time, leaving large welts and scars. He also talked about the blood curdling screams he heard when people were beaten. ... Support herself all alone, in the cold with one to help her, just waiting to die. ...

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When they fell asleep married men and women all jammed together on the cold damp floor, covering themselves with their blankets. when daybreak the horn is sounded off for the slaves to report to the plantation, those who did not rise were wiped with large hickory stick and heavy cowskin. ... Severe a curel overseer, whip a woman causing blood to run half an hour at a time; in front of her crying children, pleading for their mother's release, this was curelty, he also blasphemy and cursed at them. ...

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In the monotonous killing of each of the hogs, "They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold blooded, impersonal way, without a pretense of apology without the homage of a tear."(Pg. 35) The key comparison is the condition of the workingmen; as cold, efficient machinery assimilates them, a blind fate swallows them up. ... On the killing beds you were apt to be covered with blood, and it would freeze solid; if you leaned against a pillar, you would freeze to that, and if you put your hand upon the blade of you...

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The louder she cried, the harder he whipped, and where blood ran fastest, there he whipped the longest"" (pg. 23). ... Hunger and the cold were main factors that contributed to the misery of child slaves. They were forced to sleep on cold, hard, damp floors with no blankets. ...

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When Armand talks to Desiree knowing that the baby is not totally white, he does it very coldly, like he was numb from pain, this is also expressed when it says "in a voice which must have stabbed him, if he was human- meaning that he was emotionally void or unattached. ... He also put his faith into Desiree, this may sound like it is unemotional but its not, by marrying lower down the relative hierarchy and then, in his mind, she brought "unclean- blood into the family. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The transformation that took place changed her from a loving, nurturing woman, to a cold, bitter mistress. ... Douglass points out that some men wore smiles as they whipped the backs of both men and women until blood poured from their bodies. ...

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He explains when he saw his aunt being whipped and how the blood ran from his back. ... Severe whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at a time and her children pleaded crying. ... He suffered a lot because he had no clothing and was cold and hungry. ...

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It seemed like he felt it of total importance to make blood run on every slave of every month. ... The grotesque smack of the thin piece of leather on the slaves" skin, the sight of a slave hanging with his hands bound to a hook on the wall after a whipping, the blood oozing slowly down his/her back to the floor below, and the sick laughter of the Master that always followed all made me cringe with hatred. ... Even in the cold winter all men, women, and children would have to lay on the floors, with barely any clothes or blankets, and try to get some sleep. ... All I remember was waking up in ...

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While Douglass makes remarks from time to time about a certain Uncle or Aunt throughout the book, one gets the feeling that he is speaking of an informal bond, established more in the interest of filling in the gaps in his otherwise empty family life, rather than talking about actual blood relations. ... Severe, one of the first overseers he encountered in his young life: "I have seen him whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at the time; and this, too, in the midst of her crying children, pleading for their mother's release." ... (pg. 77) Douglass describes how slavery, ...

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They show the fraught life of Bertha Mason, the cold-hearted religion of St. ... For example, Jane waits ten years to become a 'rebel slave' and react to her treatment by Mrs Reed; Bertha is held for ten years in the attic before she 'breaks out, now in fire and now in blood'. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

E McDonald The Middle Passage Motion Picture This is a truly overwhelming movie, that literally brutalizes your intellect and sense of decency and points out vividly the racism and utter disregard for life that was prevalent in the early days of our nation. It is not a "fun tim...

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The sun in stanza 27 is described as taking on the color of blood. ... Life-in-Death is a woman that's described as having skin "as white as leprosyWho thicks man's blood with cold" (3.45). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to the slaves, it was their problem what to put on their children when it was cold outside (Feldstein 45). ... Except cold, rain, and wind, many slaves suffered from a great amount of mosquitoes. ... Sleeping on the planks, being cold, wet during the rains, and in the smoke; that was the way slaves lived in their huts. ... He remembers that "...women and children picked cotton till the blood runs from the tips of their fingers..."...

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• Grade Level: High School

According to the slaves, it was their problem what to put on their children when it was cold outside (Feldstein 45). ... Except cold, rain, and wind, many slaves suffered from a great amount of mosquitoes. ... Sleeping on the planks, being cold, wet during the rains, and in the smoke; that was the way slaves lived in their huts. ... He remembers that "...women and children picked cotton till the blood runs from the tips of their fingers..."...

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Covey gave me a savage kick in the side and told me to give up took up the hickory slat with which Hughes had been striking of a half-bushel measure and with it gave me a heavy blow upon the head, making a large wound, and the blood ran freely" (566). ...

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Africa's people and culture have been subject to many external changes that left a trace in the way they think and act nowadays. Conquests, colonization, the slave trade, Arabic and European cultural elements, Islam and Christianity and recently the spread of consumerist society have all transformed Africa for more than 500 years. However, colonization obstructed the internal process of state formation and the development in Africa and left scars of corruption and political instability in its government. Colonial leaders and countries obstructed policies and laws to further deprive certai...

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Before the Civil War, America was plagued with a complicated social quandary that incorporated individual, societal, political, economic, and religious principles. This taboo of a topic found itself well-versed throughout the country in many publications. Its authorship included Frederick Douglass...

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Writers differ in the purpose for which they write. Some aim to entertain, but the more serious and skilled writers usually have the goal of expressing a serious idea. Writers such as Hariet Beecher Stowe and Alex Haley are writers who write for more than mere entertainment. Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, had a political purpose. Stowe intended to help America realize the inhumanity of slavery and the pain it brought upon African-Americans by writing a melodramatic novel. ...

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