Whites, being leery not to encourage freedom-based teachings of Christianity, provided a watered-down version that stayed true to the salvation message and passages encouraging the slave's docility, but avoided passages promoting freedom primarily found in the Old Testament. ... During these "sermons", the congregation was encouraged to shout and respond to what was being said in a give-and-take fashion that was unique to the slave gatherings and was a product of old African worship rituals.6 The messages of these preachers could sometime hardly be considered Christian in that at times ...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Troy doesn't believe that his son, Cory can be successful in his dream, football, because of his perception that it is exclusively a white man's sport. ... Rose, Troy's wife of eighteen years answers, "Troy, why don't you admit you was too old to play in the major leagues?... Troy is older and with this type of talk and behavior, tries to establish himself as the family leader. ... Troy sees it as a boundary between himself and death in the form of a man. ... Wilson does not portray the characters as poor helpless souls in a sea of self-pity at the mercy of the evil white...

• Word Count: 1440
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"White Man- is a direct attack on the white man's violations against the African-Americans. ... "White Man! White Man! ... You are the smart guy, White Man! ... Its tone reeks of depression and self-pity, "On the shoals of Nowhere, Wasted my song Yet taken by the sea wind And blown along."" ...

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He is the first black man to start a black owned music publishing company in America. ... A combination of the old hymnody of Watts, and of the African "call and response" sung in country churches. ... Dubois wrote in The Souls of Black Folk: And so by fateful chance the Negro folk song, the rhythmic cry of the slave, stands today not simply as the sole American music, but as the most beautiful expression of human experience born this side the seas. ... The older generation is saying the same thing that was told to the older generation. ...

• Word Count: 1353
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Many older whites and blacks were against there children becoming friends. As Anne tried to befriend a young man named Wayne Burke, but his mother, Mrs. ... Anne Moody reflects on the murders of her town, "At least when other animals (hogs, cows, etc.) were killed by man, they were used as food. But when man was butchered or killed by man, in the case of Negroes by whites, they were left lying on a road or found floating in a river or something" (Moody 109). ... The conditions seem unrealistic, but to the African Americans who lived day-to-day with these problems life seemed like a never-en...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Elise's father said, "never in all my life had I met such an intellectual and well spoken colored man". ... He only needed one more year, but scholarship funding was now got off to Negroes over seas. ... He referred to Washington as an Uncle Tom, "the white man's toy". ... THE MAN AND THE MYTH When it comes to his personal life, there is no one alive that knows the facts, therefore, we can only go by written documents left by himself and people close to him. ... He died at the ripe old age of 93 on august 27, 1963. ...

• Word Count: 1586
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Of course that Son assimilated old conventions and cliche sees on life and encompassing individuals, which were likely implemented by his work of mariner and his way of life. ... The triumph of ingenuity that had transferred the bored treachery of the sea into a playful gush of water that did exactly what it was told" (Morrison 1996, p.222). ... For instance, her words concerning Valerian that "he's a person not a white man" (Morrison 1996, p.265) are very symbolic and indicate that she is absolutely different from Son, to a certain extent, racist views. ...

• Word Count: 1453
• Approx Pages: 6