Essays 31 - 60
work "Uncle Toms Cabin" influenced a great many people. And, her intention was to "inspire a strong emotional reaction of indignat...
Being put into a position of having to sexually service their master was the ultimate blow to a female slaves psyche. This...
social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...
end, giving us a young woman who was never able to come to terms with her race, her sexuality, or her gender. She is the character...
Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...
composed of those two forms from which they distantly derive." While this is only one small part of Foucaults work, it is clearl...
North, in Baltimore, seeing that people in the North, the whites, could be bitter ignorant people as well: "The watchwords of the ...
ramifications (Jacobs). Consider all of the white women who would discover their husbands having affairs with slave wome...
sends through the voices of her characters. Stowe is a master at crafting conversations and employing just the right words for he...
a distinctly more female approach, as it openly deals with gender issues and missing womanhood. The author, herself, once remarke...
at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price o...
the most important economic realities involving the slaves is that which involves the selling off of slaves by Shelby to less than...
This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...
knows that it would put Mr. Shelby even further in debt and that he might be forced to sell off more of the slaves from his home....
business--wants to buy up handsome boys to raise for the market. Fancy articles entirely--sell for waiters, and so on, to rich un...
knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...
Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...
fair average kind of man, goodnatured and kindly, and disposed to easy indulgence of those around him, and there had never been a ...
many ways, this novel is the quintessential slave narrative. The character of Uncle Tom has come to epitomize the racial st...
This paper examines such slave narratives as Annie L. Burton's The Narrative of Bethany Veney: A Slave Woman and Memories of Child...
In six pages this paper discusses the expression of cultural nationalism in African American literature and music as depicted in t...
As the development of bound labor in the American south moved from the indentured servitude system of the colonial era to the grow...
In 5 pages Miss Ophelia's 'Yankee mind' characteristics are examined in this analysis of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin...
In five pages this paper examines how these social perspectives are altered by slavery in a consideration of Harriet Ann Jacobs' I...
In five pages this paper examines how water is metaphorically depicted in 'The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy, 'The Innocen...
In five pages such issues that are relevant to slavery such as 1950's Fugitive Slave Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, abolitionism, ...
The Affections Illustrated in Factory Life by Harriet Farley is reviewed in six pages. There are no other sources cited....
In one page this paper compares the characters Ivan Ilych from Leo Tolstoy's short story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' and Linda Brent...
"In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity" (Douglass 279). These men were better equipped -- intellectu...
In five pages this paper discusses how the oral tradition is applied to slave narratives penned by Nat Turner, David Walker, Frede...