I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. ... Two such works are "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July-, a speech by Fredrick Douglass, and David Walker's Appeal by David Walker. ... By looking at the similarities of the men's views of how slavery relates to religion and government as well as the differences of their intended audiences it is easier to understand these two works. ...

• Word Count: 1119
• Approx Pages: 4

The author in my opinion is merely describing how a slave spoke in those days and was trying to give you the true feeling behind his thought, while writing this tale. ... We as a modern society should maintain an open mind when dealing with literary works such as Huckleberry Finn and bare in our mind that novels such as these are written during socially diverse and sometimes opposite ways of thinking. ...

• Word Count: 671
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

You spend at least six days a week tending to the fields of a farm. ... Only recently have researchers been able to learn of the works done by some people such as David Ruggles, Calvin Fairbank, Josiah Henson, and Erastus Hussey. ...

• Word Count: 837
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

His works inspired many new laws that fought against the ill treatment of natives and led the Europeans to see slavery in a new perspective. ... " He then describes the Spaniards as "beast, wolves, tigers or lions that have been starved for many days.... " De Las Casas states that not only did the Spaniards behave like "ravening beast" to conquer the land "for they have behaved in no other way in the past forty years" and they have continued "killing, terrorizing, afflicting, torturing, and destroying the native peoples" to the "present days....

• Word Count: 1046
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Charlotta is dressed in boyish attire and carrying a shotgun, while she speaks of her days with a traveling show, her lack of memory about who she is or who her parents were. ... Instead of working for humanity, Lophain works for increased wealth. ...

• Word Count: 1228
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Some of the major characters in the story are as follows: Charlie Marlow, Kurtz - a European, half English, and half French, who works for the ivory company at the Inner Station on the Congo, The Manager - an Englishman who runs the Central Station on the Congo. ... This novel is a perfect example of how blacks were treated in the early days. ...

• Word Count: 1164
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School