An autobiography usually offers a carefully selected and highly constructed version of a person's life story. So we can say that the story is always motivated. ... Concerning this issue he declared I quote "In a little less than four years, therefore, after becoming a public lecturer, I was induced to write out the leading facts connected with my experience in slavery, giving the names of persons, places, and dates, thus putting it in the power of any who doubted, to ascertain the truth or falsehood of my story." ... In fact, we can say that Douglass's preface could stand for what...

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On the other hand, Longstreet is a realistic soldier in the story. ... This is a direct quote to show his change in religion after the war. ... Also, the bible and beliefs are shown to change at the end with the quote, "After a while Lee came. ... The final change of heart and religion in the story was in the ending of the adventure with Chamberlain, "He thanked God for the honor. ... By these quotes, he is saying he demands to be treated fairly, as he deserves today in this land, not as they saw people in the past deserved. ...

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The main thesis of Gates's essay deals with the idea that a book or story can talk to its reader. ... Douglass, in the "Heroic Slave", displays keen logic and planning throughout the story. ... Listwell, a white man who will guide the reader through much of the story. ... However, this is a politically volatile story, dealing with and defending a slave revolt on a slave trade ship. ... Although the author of the story is black, this quote forces the notion that a good many white people disfavor the institution of slavery. ...

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Douglass story was relevant to his life, until he escaped from slavery. ... He also used his story to reach out to the Northern people in hope of help. ... Through this quote Stowe showed how she was feeling through her work. ... In his story he told us all the hardships he was faced with. ... He did not hold anything back, while writing this story. ...

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According to Daniel McCarthy, a 2003 graduate student in the classics at Washington University in Saint Louis and now the editor of The American Conservative, "This is as much his [General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson] story as it is the story of the war itself. It is also a story told mostly from the South's point of view" (Gods and Generals). ... The movie has three underlying themes taking place simultaneously; the first two were mentioned in the previous quote, and the last is blatantly obvious – the slaves and people of color were not portrayed in a fashion a...

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There are two prominent motives for why Douglass wrote the story of his life. The primary reason for writing his story is targeted at the slaveholders and powerful people of New England, where the abolitionist movement was strongest. ... This story is very valuable in that sense, because very few others had the ability to do so. Frederick Douglass' narrative is a powerful story that provides criticism and exposition of a corrupt and peculiar institution. ... The use of the conversion narrative, as well as many well-known stories from the Christian religion, is used by Douglass to show th...

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A narrative form of literature is a story, account of events, or experiences, whether it is true or fictitious (Elements of Literature). Both stories were their real experiences and they gave the reader credible facts and information. ... Either of the quotes could be used to persuade the reader to think of how unbearable the author's situation is, or how difficult it is to be on a slave ship during the voyage, and how fearful it would be to be held captive by Native Americans. ... The stories share by two different captives in two different sets of circumstances reveal the emotion and p...

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Some Swahili short stories and novels are built around the essence of a single, unifying proverb. ... Africans would tell stories using different methods such as acting, gesturing and singing. ... For many slaves would make use of their songs and stories to educate their people, enlighten their minds and free their souls. ... The different stories attempted to explain the world's creation and where humans came from. ... He had to remember stories, riddles, cultural history, proverbs and everything else. ...

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I realized in reading this mans story that he was a gifted individual and I pondered over where his strength came from? ... As seen in this quote, Douglass was very assertive. ... In this quote you can see that even Douglass knew that he had to cheer himself through his gloom, no one else would be there to help push him through. ...

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At face value, the mariner's story seems like utter nonsense, but upon close reading, it becomes apparent that through the mariner's lengthy exposition, Coleridge intends to communicate a certain moral outlook on life in general, as well as his show his concern for slavery, through the use of imagery, descriptions of the supernatural, and references to God. ... The poem starts off in the third-person perspective of a narrator who tells of how the mariner and the wedding guest first meet, then the speaker is the mariner as he tells his story, and finally, the speaker is then the omn...

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In Daniel Defoe's novel, Robinson Crusoe, religion plays a prominent role throughout the story; however, Crusoe, like the majority of individuals, practices selective religious conviction, clinging to actions and moral principals he finds appealing and ignoring those that do not conform to his beliefs. Robinson Crusoe is more than a story about a shipwreck, survival and rescue; it is a novel about one man's spiritual journey, a spiritual journey complete with spiritual apathy. Throughout the story, Crusoe's level of spiritual devotion is dependent upon his need. ... With that ...

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What one feels is that he is not the hero of his own story, that in fact the hero exists in the personified form of a principle - a principle called "Freedom", defined by Washington, temporarily exemplified by him throughout the course of the story. ... This is Washington's story; he is driven by the "responsibility of freedom" and thus takes a back seat in his own narrative. ... So, where Washington tells us a straightforward Horatio-Alger-like story, DuBois becomes more psychoanalytical and chooses to investigate at more length (and with more artistic and personal freedom in his wri...

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You deserve it all, and more too."" (9) This quote is from a passage in which a young slave girl is dying soon after giving birth to a child that is nearly white. ... "Reader, my story ends with freedom; not in the usual way, with marriage. ...

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Large scale slave trading in Africa ceased towards the end of the 19th century, but its legacy of suffering continues today" ("The Story of Africa: Slavery" BBC World Service. 17 Mar 2004. ... Moreover, to my advice, is very closely related, in content, to the documents we have red in class, which are also quoted throughout the text. ...

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In this quote, Baca explained his internal conflict with Coach Tracy. ... Douglass and Baca formulated their identities along this journey, learning to persevere in order to share their stories with the world. ...

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De Bow's review on Slavery and Bible, written by anonymous, was one of the most important journals against anti-slavery in the south due to the fact that they stated quotes straight out of the holy bible. ... " However, Abraham is not the only key piece of evidence the article states, but also includes the story of Moses, Israelites, Paul and Timothy from New testament. ...

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Captivity, bondage, restraint, subjugation, and slavery. These words all mean one thing, enslaving someone against their will. Slavery was an episode in history, which scarred many African men, women, and children. Slavery has appeared almost universally throughout history among peoples of every lev...

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In this quote talks about what he has observed to be the slave traders intentions. ... While Equiano talks about the many things that he observes while being traded nothing can compare to the stories and complaints he writes about during his voyages over see as a slave. ...

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In the article, Robinson talks about Alice Randall's book, The Wind Done Gone, and tells about the gruesome story of how a Mammy had to neglect her own child to give her full attention to the master's children which later resulted in the death of the child (63). ... In Robinson's article, he quotes Randall's book again, "She who ain't free not to love, ain't free to love" (66). ... Her story of love and devotion to the white children are all that people are told about. ...

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