The first owners that he -2 was with were from Africa and their land resembled that of the land that Equiano grew up on. ... Especially noted of the English language, which was very strange to Equiano, but he learned it because he needed to. ... After being at sea for about three years, Equiano comments that, "From the various scenes I had beheld on shipboard, I soon grew a stranger to terror of every kind, and was, in that respect at least, almost an Englishman"(Alison 71). ...

• Word Count: 1232
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"Bury Me in a Free Land" Make me a grave where"er you will, In a lowly plain or a lofty hill; Make it among earth's humblest graves, But not in a land where men are slaves. ... I ask no monument, proud and high, To arrest the gaze of the passers by; All that my yearning spirit craves Is--Bury me not in a land of slaves! The poem Bury Me In a Free Land deals with the issue of having your final resting place in a place where there are slaves. ... We had told our little darling, Of the land of love and light, Of the saints all crowned with glory, And enrobed in spotless ...

• Word Count: 2134
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The story of the American slave is thus the story of the African's search for a home in a hateful land. In Toni Morrison's Beloved, each generation hopes to find a better home despite a malignant world: Sethe's mother traveled from the slave ship to the plantation, Sethe from the plantation to Cincinnati, Beloved from Cincinnati to death, and Denver from a strange, haunted land of ghosts and despair to her community at large. ... Garner's "soft" slavery; for all slavery robs the man of the his home because all slavery dynamics destroy his identity, makin...

• Word Count: 2092
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School