1. Fredrick Douglass
At the age of seven her death was not sad to him because he received the news of her death with much the same emotions as that of a stranger. ... Doulgass says, "I received the news of her death with much the same emotions I would have felt at the death of a stranger." ...
"The Evils of Slavery" "Memory was given to man for some wise purpose. The past is the mirror in which we may discern the dim outlines of the future and by which we may make them more symmetrical."(1) These are profound words from a man who lived through one of the darkest and most embarrassi...
Response to Kindred Dana Franklin, living in 1976 Los Angeles, unexpectedly gets whisked through time back into the nineteenth century. As soon as she realizes what has happened, she notices a young boy, face down in the water drowning. Dana hops into the water and saves this young stranger fr...
"A Different Kind of Christmas", is about a son of a southern aristocrat planter, he is sent to Princeton to pursue an education. There, Fletcher the aristocrats son is influenced by a group of Quaker brothers. The Quaker brothers show Fletcher the evils of slavery, in a short visit to their Quaker ...
When she died Douglass remarked that he did not feel much emotion since she was like a stranger to him; he had "never enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care," Douglass uses descriptive adjectives like "soothing" and "tender" to re-create and imaginary childhood he may have known if his mother had been present. ...
He notes that he never got the chance to develop any real relationship with her and at one point in his story he describes his feelings by writing, "Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger" (49). ...
Huck & Jim A journey sailing down the Mississippi River, escaping your past to find freedom, that brings two people from different worlds, come together. This is the story of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". The relationship between Huck and Jim gradually change throughout the novel. Th...
Model: Until I was thirteen and left Arkansas for good, the Store was my favorite place to be. Alone and empty in the mornings, it looked like an unopened present from a stranger. Opening the front doors was pulling the ribbons off the unexpected gift. The light would come in softly (we faced north)...
The distinction is made however, in verse 44-46 that "thy bondsmen shall be of the heathen around you the children of the strangers shall be your bondsmen forever11 ", showing the similarities in the inherited and permanent status of enslavement akin to the Africans. ...
Douglass says, "Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger." ...
In his poem On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country, Freneau writes,From Europe's proud despotic shores hither the stranger takes his way, And in our new found world explores a happier soil, a milder sway where no proud despot holds him down, no slaves insult him with a crown?...