She would not be able to witness her own daughter, Beloved; go through what she had to go through and therefore murdered her. She also tried to murder her two sons and other daughter, but they were all saved. This was for the best because her two sons eventually escaped and did not have to be slaves for much longer, and her other daughter became very close with Sethe. ... In Medea by Euripides the case in which the mother kills her daughter is quite different. ... This act was completely animal like, and there is no possible was that Medea was sane at the time of the murder. ...

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Unfortunately in that time period the slave owner was usually in control what happened in a slave marriage. ... With their children, especially their daughters, they had their most enduring and cherished relationships. ... It was the duty of the mother to make sure their daughters don't get caught up with any of that. According to White, "A slave mother's uneasiness during her daughter's adolescence also grew out of her desire to protect her daughter from the responsibilities of adulthood. Mothers seemed to want girls to grow up slowly, and so they tried to limit their daugh...

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In Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege, Kent Anderson Leslie tells the true story of a woman, Amanda America Dickson, whose life shows how these definitions were crucial to an African American woman's life, and how, with tenacity and determination, one woman defined herself. ... From the day of her birth she was raised in the main house, in his mother's room and declared, "that he believed it was his duty to care for his daughter and he wanted her to be with him." ... Dickson doted on his daughter and it is believed that he gave Amanda Dickson her earliest education in reading...

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Sethe, a main character, killed her first-born daughter to protect her from slavery and has been haunted by the ghost of her first born for 18 years. Sethe lives in this haunted house with her daughter Denver, who is effected by her mother's choice to forget the past. ... They raped her and stole her breast milk, which prevented her from feeding her daughter. ... Beloved is seen as the spirit of Sethe's dead daughter. Beloved represents the past returned to haunt the present and her presence is enabling while at the same time is destructive. ...

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This was similar to Sethe's emotional life, because although she was alive, she had been emotionally frozen or dead, since she murdered her daughter eighteen years earlier. ... This was a perfect time for her to surface because it would refresh Sethe's feeling of guilt, not only for killing her daughter, but also for enjoying herself at the carnival. ...

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He demands service from Caliban on the basis that he attempts to rape his daughter. " till though didst seek to violate / The honour of my child" (1.2.344). Prospero's argument is that he tries to educate Caliban and to help him, but in return, Caliban tries to take advantage of his daughter. ... In present day, when a felon is caught for attempted rape, he is punished and serves time in prison. ... True, in Prospero's time and place, it may have been the business of the victim to punish the criminal; however, Prospero's punishment for Caliban is not entirely for justice, but al...

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He feared retribution from the Roman Catholic Church for his ideas violated the religious doctrine of that time. ... The reader is presented with a warm, touching relationship that exists between Robbie (the robot) and the Weston's daughter Gloria. ... Weston is also shown to be unsubstantiated when she explains that "[She] won't have [her] daughter entrusted to a machine A child just isn't made to be guarded by a thing of metal"(578) while her husband points out that "[Robbie's] been with Gloria two years now and [he has not] seen [her] worry till now." ... Weston ser...

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He speaks of the events of debating about slavery in Missouri and in the other states at the time the book was placed. ... "Robert had made his westward journey with his wife, whose name we do not know, and son Harry and daughter Virginia both of whom were born in Virginia." (2) The Newsom's settled in Callaway County by eighteen twenty two where Robert built his farm at. During the time that Robert Newsom and family settled there, Callaway County was gaining more and more farmers to its rich and fertile land. ... And some of the other property that Robert Newsom invested in was Slav...

• Word Count: 434
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By breaking Huck's prejudice over African Americans during his journey with Jim, Twain is trying to reflect the foolishness of prejudice which uncountable number of white people had during the time period. ... On the other hand, Mark Twain uses another white character, Aunt Sally who appears almost at the end of the chapter to deliver the serious prejudices of "niggers" at the time period. ... In his tearful conversation of how he made his daughter a deaf, Jim does not only impress the readers, but also let the readers oppose to the slavery (Twain 156). The scene, where Jim, "fe...

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Flint's five-year-old daughter. ... This time of supposed happiness, freedom, growth, and innocence for young women is robbed in the life of a slave. ... The fact that the mother would want her daughter and grandchild dead is testimony to slaves' unimaginable suffering. ... Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl gives a true description of the cruelty slavery inflicted women, a perception that was not widespread during Jacobs' time. ...

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From the time that Newsom first acquires Celia, he begins to rape her on a regular basis. ... Two of Robert Newsom's children, his daughters, Virginia Waynescott and Mary Newsom still resided in his home. ... He also had two daughters, close to the same age as Celia which may have caused him to have some degree of sympathy for her. Jameson had also spent a great deal of time studying religion, so there is little doubt that he had pondered the morality of slavery at some point. ...

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The story gives the perspective of a woman slave on slavery, a perspective that was relatively secretive during Jacobs" time. ... Flint and his daughter to locate her and return her to slavery in the South. ... However his eldest daughter, Rosetta, tells a different story in which she talks about Anna Murray, a free black woman, who helps Douglass in his escape. ...

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His mother was Harriet Bailey; she was the daughter of Isaac and Betsey Bailey, who were both colored and dark. ... Captain Anthony had two sons; Richard and Andrew, and a daughter; Lucretia Auld. ... Severe whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at a time and her children pleaded crying. ...

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The tradition of treating women as property in the south made it difficult for people to see the immediate effects of the abuse, but over time it became clear that slave women and men were treated very differently. ... Female slaves had a much more difficult time being a slave then men, for example they had to put up with the sexual abuse from their masters and also raise their children alone. ... It even affected slave owners negatively without them even knowing it, sexual abuse caused the country as a whole to take a step back and made it difficult for families to feel the necessary connecti...

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The average enslaved female gave birth for the first time at nineteen years old and afterwards, birthed one child every 2.5 years. ... Perhaps even more distressing than that, a women may have to see her own daughters experience the same fate; "When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. ... As historian Scarborough said, "(the) principal task of the elite slaveholder to keep their servants relatively contented with their inferior status while at the same time, extracting the maximum labour from them". ... The period of sl...

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He is a slave who has been married twice and raised 12 daughters and 1 son. ... "That morning I faced the world for the first time as a nobody, nameless." ... "The last time I cried was over the pointless death of a boy I loved as my own." ...

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The book, "Celia, a Slave," gives detail accounts of what happened in a young slave life form the time she was fourteen until her execution. ... I those times it was frowned upon so in order to cover it up Robert Newsom gave Celia the responsibilities to take care of his two daughters Virginia and Mary. ... Being as the man that would be doing these things were the master or someone in the family Power relationships during this time were virtually non-existent. ...

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In Dew's final point, he portrays the relationship between master and slave as comparative to that of mother and daughter, or brother and sister. ... Many of slavery's proponents throughout that time felt that Negroes were an inferior race, too childish and ignorant to be on their own. ...

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When one looks at the colonization of the New World from the Spanish and Portugal crown, the resources were limited. Even though the Iberian colonizers were of great minority with indigenous folks, they still managed to control most of the Western Hemisphere for a few centuries. How did this come ...

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In 1609 the starvation level of the colony were at an all time high thus calling for desperate measures. ... On one of the new ships was a leader named John Smith who when got to Jamestown would be saved by an Indian Chief's daughter, Pocahontas. ... At this time farmed products were in great demand, tobacco being the most sought. ... England in this time period was over populated. ... One way they were able to make this trip were to be an indentured servant for a period of time. ...

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Emily was the daughter of a slave woman and her white master and was valued by the slave trader Burch. ... Solomon himself attempted to run away and spent all of his time contemplating escape (Northup 42). ... He very descriptively recounts his whipping and beating from Burch, because it is the first time it ever happens to him, but as his life as a slave progresses, he describe the horrible act less vividly. ...

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During the time of its premiere, The Octoroon, inspired conversations about the abolition of slavery as well as the overall mistreatment of the African Americans. ... Zoe Peyton, "The Octoroon", is the supposedly "freed" biological daughter of Judge Peyton, former owner of the plantation. ... Now's your time, sar. ...

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As a child he enjoyed spending time with his mother, whom he was very fond of. ... The important thing that took place around this time was Equiano's conversion to Christianity. ... He later married an Englishman, Susanna Cullen in 1793 and had two daughters. ...

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After the unfortunate death of St.Clare and his daughter Tom is sold to a wicked plantation owner,Simon Legree,up the Red River. ... Mean while Tom starts off with the slave trader,He and Haley board a boat.At the same time we learn that Eliza and Harry are at a Quaker settlement where they are reunited with with Eliza's husband George. ...

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Linda also speaks of "The Slaves New Year's Day", this was the time that slaves everywhere were sold and leased. ... Flint's daughter was not long after married to a man by the name of Dodge and sent a letter to Linda to come home that they might welcome her with "open arms". ...

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