While there are several important themes and overarching ideas seen throughout the text, a strong grasp of the force and significance of this text can be understood from an intensive analysis of a seemingly insignificant description from a sighting during an account of his passage on a slave ship: "During our passage, I first saw flying fishes, which surprised me very much" (698). ... The hope for freedom and liberation is apparent throughout the text, and becomes an important aspect of his identity. ... This one seemingly insignificant sentence has captured the many significant the...

• Word Count: 660
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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A few points emphasized in the head notes which I find evidence in the text includes "Stowe ceased to write on behalf of abolitionism- (1672). ... There are some points emphasized in the period introductions which I find evident in the text includes: "Harriet Beecher Stowe compellingly described the way rigid Calvinism could cripple young minds"(970); "Some of the writers of this period lived with the anguishing paradox that the most idealistic nation in the world was implicated in continuing national sins the enslavement of blacks-(972); ...

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In the text he is constantly wavering between an intense desire to become more educated and gaining literacy and wanting to give up entirely. ... There are two forms of Christianity symbolized in "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," and each is described differently throughout the text. ... By beginning the text with a biblical and Christian statement, Frederick Douglass was indicating to readers his own faith and is placing himself within it. ...

• Word Count: 733
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• Has Bibliography
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Frederic Douglas For someone who was not educated in rhetoric, Frederick Douglas became one of the more prominent anti-slavery speakers of his day. These excerpts of his biographical speeches are amazingly telling of the life of an American slave during the years leading up to the civil war. They...

• Word Count: 631
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Through images and text Dr. ... Abina and The Important Men is a book separated into two parts: first, a graphic novel and second a translated, more detailed, historical text. ... However, the text interpretation of the story provides very important background information. ...

• Word Count: 1018
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Evidence of the middle passage being the worst experience for African slaves and the vile and inhumane conditions they endured during that period can be seen in the historical text-book; Liberties Lost Caribbean Indigenous Societies and Slave Systems where the writers Hilary McD. ... Evidence to support that motion can be seen in the text-book; The People Who Came Book 2 written by James Carnegie and Patricia Patterson when it stated that on the slave ships only 6 feet by 1 foot, 4 inches were allowed for the men, 5 feet by 1 foot, 4 inches for women and a small 4 feet 6 inches by 1foot for t...

• Word Count: 670
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Frederick Douglass, originally known as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was one of the most influential African Americans of the nineteenth century Fueled by the brutal mistreatment as a slave, he could no longer take the abuse and fought back against the cruel mistreatment (Notable Blac...

• Word Count: 433
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• Grade Level: High School

As an ancient text of over 3000 years old, with various authors in different places across 1,600 years, the exact facts of authorship are obviously contested. ... However, inherent to its nature as a text as the foundation of Christianity is its reliance on Christians to accept the word as God's unquestionable divine truth. ...

• Word Count: 1094
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" The use of the word property is commonly found in texts of the day relating to slaves, and is also found quite often in Harriets own writings. ... Throughout the text we see examples of this many times and how it annoyed Harriet since she was an educated slave. ...

• Word Count: 1005
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Then the film transitions into a segment where they have a short text about what each character did with their life after the trial. Spielberg proceeds to show a text across the screen explaining how the Africans returned home to find their country in civil war. ...

• Word Count: 1126
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

1. The four documents analyzed all seem to view the various elements of slavery in a different light. The text takes a more historical approach in conveying what occurred; whereas the other three readings all seem to be written by someone who put their own spin on it. The piece by Olaudah Equiano...

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Frederick Douglass writes The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass during the time before the Civil War, surprisingly as a freed slave. As a slave there were many obstacles that had to be overcome to write a narrative of this sort and Douglass is very successful at doing this. By using formal Englis...

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In the article, Plantation Society in the Antebellum South, Faust makes the case that there was a plantation "system"" that slave owners used to control their slaves. To a large extent, this was done by undermining their society and culture. There was also a need to be lenient and caring so that the...

• Word Count: 563
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• Grade Level: High School

Weeds Ernest J. Gaines sets his book, A Gathering of Old Men, in the 70's on the sugarcane plantations of Louisiana. It is about the conflicts between the whites and the blacks within an isolated parish. This story revolves around a young white woman, Can...

• Word Count: 649
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• Grade Level: High School

History is a vital subject in education; it allows people to grasp a better understanding of what went on before our present day generations and provides lessons for the future. Historical narratives are crucial for this desire to know what went on in the earlier days of the world. La Relación by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano, "The General History of Virginia," by John Smith, and "Of Plymouth Plantation" by William Bradford, are all examples of historical narratives. Readers of historical narratives must consider the wr...

• Word Count: 892
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the novel, "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood, women and anything feminine are regarded as unintelligent, weak, and lacking in any value. Science and masculinity are strong forces within society. Atwood uses the character of Crake to represent all things scientifically and masculine, and the cha...

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Calhoun, Defending Slavery to the British Minister in Washington" (1844) in the American History text relay the points of view of two esteemed men pertaining to slavery in the South, and their reasoning on the matter. ...

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Frederick Douglass The work of Douglass was one of the first African-American literary works, an important autobiography representing the black culture. Autobiographies were extremely popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, because people were looking for models. Benjamin Franklin can be consider...

• Word Count: 900
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• Grade Level: High School

Internet Resources for Students of Afro-American History. http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/afrores.html: This site is indexed and linked to a wide variety of sources, including primary documents, text collections, and archival sources on African American history. ...

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The Cost of Sin in Slavery For every decision we make and for every action that we partake in there is a consequence or multiple consequences that arise because of what we chose to do or think or say. These consequences may be positive or negative depending on what the action that caused th...

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Betty Wood introduces her book, The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies, by raising two conceptually-related questions: 1) What made English colonists believe they had the right to enslave West Africans and; 2) What prompted them to do so? She points out th...

• Word Count: 982
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I am sure that everyone in here is familiar with this famous scene about a little girl who was deaf and blind. With the help of Anne Sullivan her teacher, Helen Keller learned to communicate through sign language. What you probably don't know is she was a strong advocate for the socialist party. Chr...

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FINAL Toni Morrison once said that race is a central, defining feature of American literature. All of the significant texts show concern for the racially "other." I agree that a number of authors use race as a central idea in their writings. In Mary Rowlandson's Narrative, she defines her Puri...

• Word Count: 1155
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• Grade Level: High School