Born on a plantation to Benjamin Turner, who instructed him to become knowledgeable in reading, religion, and writing. ... Turner was into his religion deeper than most and spent a lot of time reading his bible. ... About three years later he received what he claimed to be another message from the man above. ... " He would later on receive another sign telling him when to fight, but this message meant "I should arise and prepare myself and slay my enemies with their own weapons.... They ran into a face-off between a group of white men at a plantation near Jerusalem, and the conflic...

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• Grade Level: High School

Douglass' intrigue of learning, despite disadvantages, shows how he really loved reading and kept a passion for it. ... He struggles everyday just to get reading and writing lessons. ... Taking away reading and writing from Frederick and Richard is like taking away food from starving children. ... On a positive note, Richard did eventually get to attend school, which didn't come till later on in Frederick's behalf. Richard's grandmother hindered his ability to learn because she thought that reading novels was a sin and that the only reading he should have been doing w...

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Almost a decade later, Sam and his friend Willie can start a conversation with an adult and they can understand everything discussed, even if it does not directly relate to baseball. A little later in the essay, Pratt tells us that the contact zone plays such an important role in autoethnographic text, text in which people undertake to describe themselves in ways that engage with representations other have make of them. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While reading "The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb," I thought that Bibbs commitment and love for his family were drawbacks in his life. ... When I started reading this book my first thought on Henry Bibb with his slave marriage and child, was that he was very happy. ... Then later on in life his wife Malinda becomes pregnant and Henry expresses how excited he was to become a father. ... Later again Bibb was betrayed by the lady he was working for, captured and sent to a slave prison. ... Later Bibb's owner died and he thought that would be the perfect time runaway to Canada. ...

• Word Count: 946
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• Grade Level: High School

He was separated with her at a young age and then met her at a later age. ... By just reading this book, we are faced with many emotions to handle. ... This book helps with reading other books. ... Reading this book could help to the comparisons of others. ... It is essential to know the type of reading that you like before choosing this book. ...

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In the later part of the book Douglass is cursed with a double consciousness, called Euphemistism. He makes sure that after reading this the reader realizes that slavery was a corporation, business, or even an enterprise for economic autonomy. ...

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Richard later had to leave a good job because those racist co-workers would "kill" him. ... By reading the principal's speech, Richard was saying what the white power wanted him to say and to Richard this would be giving in to the very thing he hated so much. ... Richard tries to distance himself from his environment because there are no answers in his present situation, and he won't find those answer until later in life. ...

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Richard later had to leave a good job because those racist co-workers would "kill" him. ... By reading the principal's speech, Richard was saying what the white power wanted him to say and to Richard this would be giving in to the very thing he hated so much. ... Richard tries to distance himself from his environment because there are no answers in his present situation, and he won't find those answer until later in life. ...

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Through the readings so far in the book African American Literature I have learned that African slaves would tell stories to keep hope of becoming free someday. ... For example, in How Buck Won His Freedom, Buck outsmarted his master by acting as if he couldn't speak proper english then, later, by imitating his master he gained his freedom. ...

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Fredrick Douglass was a writer who boldly wrote about the treatment of slaves while in captivity. his reading experience made him an influential person in the late 1800's. He spent two years of his childhood years living on the plantation; it was here he got his first impression of slavery. in hi...

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Along the way, Dana teaches Rufus how to read and soon many slaves find an interest in reading. ... All these situations force Dana to become one of the slaves, to actually become a slave herself, though she entirely does not feel like a slave for she always knows she will go home sooner or later. ...

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There he took care of a child and was even given reading lessons that were revoked after a period of time because the head of the house had stated it was unlawful to teach a slave to read. ... Many years later Frederick had found his way to escape out of the arms of slavery forever. ... He later wrote, "A new world had opened upon me." ...

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Little did they know it was too late, Douglass says, "Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell" (144). ... After getting a hold of a book entitled "The Columbian Orator" Douglass writes, "The reading of these documents enabled me to utter my thoughts, and to meet the arguments brought forward to sustain slavery but while they relieved me of one difficulty, they brought on another even more painful than the one which was relieved. ... Reading this document not only gave him literacy skills but ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Also, the quote is instructive in that Douglass achieved enlightenment through his hard work towards reading and writing. ... He later taught himself to write on days when his Mistress was out of the house and their son was away at school. ... Douglass put in a great deal of hard work and effort into learning to read and write, even when there were people trying to prevent him from reading. ...

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In Kindred, Dana disobeys Tom Weylin, Rufus father, when he clearly warned her not to read anymore and suddenly one day Dana gets discovered, Weylin says, "Didn't I tell you I didn't want you reading' 'I treated you good' said Weylin 'he snatched the book from me and threw me on the floor' 'I never saw where the whip came from; never even saw the first blow coming. ... Slave owners believed blacks couldn't hold the ability to own knowledge; therefore, they were restricted to any sort of reading or writing by law. ... Dana found it easy for ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Later on Paul D, an old friend of Sethe, visits Sethe, which brings up some old memories. ... Later in the novel a character, Beloved, is introduced. ... When Angelou discovers reading and writing, she confronts her past giving her a strong new voice. ... Sethe and Denver later realize that Beloved is the reincarnation of Sethe's dead child. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When I first began reading the book "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson I was not very interested, it was slow going and I had a difficult time getting into the story. ... Later Isabel was accused in court of misbehaving and was to be branded on her cheek with the letter I, for insolence. ...

• Word Count: 850
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• Grade Level: High School

Later in the narrative, Douglass states his case for all religious slaveholders, "For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst . . . meanest . . . most cruel and cowardly, of all others"(57). ... By reading the "Appendix," the reader is able to reevaluate the narrative and discover the point Douglass is trying to make. ...

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Bob Marley once said, "I'm a man of God and me come to do God's work." Bob Marley brought reggae to a broad audience and devoted his work to spread a message of peace, unity and love. Bob Marley made an attempt to make blacks recognized. He became an important figure for the Afro-race. In the song "...

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• Grade Level: High School

In recent events, Mr. Frederick Douglas has become a free man and that he is saying slavery was wrong to him. I said nay to that when he came into my care I did everything in my power to keep him, fed, clothed and safe. When he first came to me he was such a young child.. dirty, cold, skinned to th...

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• Grade Level: High School

When reading Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," we are told of the tactics performed by many slave owners in order to maintain their power over their slaves - their "property.... We find out later the money was never repaid nor was it brought up again by the mistress. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Historians were able to get a better understanding of the atrocities African slaves faced by reading the Autobiography of Mary Prince. ... Mary Prince was born into slavery and a few years later she was separated from her family.  ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School