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Frederick Douglass's Life and Times

In five pages this paper examines Frederick Douglass the man as reflected in the 1881 publication of The Life and Times of Freder...

Gender Issues Involved in Freedom from Slavery

In five pages the gender differences regarding freedom and slavery issues are considered within the context of the writings Uncle ...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Themes of Change and Freedom

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of the central theme of Frederick Douglass' Narrative in the Life of F...

Views of Frederick Douglass on Slavery

them, the more the author desperately wanted to remove himself from such circumstances. "In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

of Douglass work one author, unknown, notes the following in relationship to Douglass and why he undertook the project of writing ...

Slavery: Frederick Douglass

the physical oppression of the slaves. Douglass work illustrates many ways in which slaves were imprisoned and oppressed, and also...

King and Douglass' Writing, Analysis of their Rhetoric

his right to be in the Birmingham community and take part in the struggle of the African American community in that city. This int...

Education and Frederick Douglass

instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read. To use hi...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

Frederick Douglass and Nathaniel Hawthorne on Freedom

In twelve pages this paper discusses the social restrictions imposed upon freedom as revealed within Douglass's Narrative of the L...

Oral Tradition, Slave Narratives, and White Readers

In five pages this paper discusses how the oral tradition is applied to slave narratives penned by Nat Turner, David Walker, Frede...

Slave Narratives and the Portrayal of White Europeans

as I thought, in so savage a manner; for I had never seen among my people such instances of brutal cruelty. The closeness of the ...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

Comparison of W.E.B. du Bois and Frederick Douglass's Writings

In five pages running to and from are considered in a contrast and comparison of The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life...

Baltimore's Race Relations from 1830 to 1914

In eleven pages the treatment of blacks living in Baltimore are compared and contrasted through the observations of Augusta Tucker...

Infamous Fight Between Frederick Douglass and Mr. Covey in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper examines the fight as presented in Douglass's Narrative to conclude that it was merely a retelling of an ...

Alexis de Tocqueville's 'Black Slave' Contention and Frederick Douglass

In five pages de Tocqueville's notion that the black slave is unaware of his status is disproved with the Narrative of the Life of...

Douglass, Narrative and Thematic Meaning

completely justified, as Douglasss Narrative makes it clear that keeping slaves as ignorant as possible was a key factor in mainta...

Narrative of Equiano & Douglass/A Comparison

resisted the imposition of another name, Gustavus Vassa, by his master. Nevertheless, despite being treated as an animal, Douglass...

Frederick Douglass on Religion

us a clear distinction between religion of men and God. He indicates that when he was chosen for a particular master and job he fe...

Frederick Douglass, Successful Despite Slavery

been a slave and not due to his celebrity status among abolitionists for having endured slavery. In order to fully appreciate th...

Ideological Comparison of Henry David Thoreau and Frederick Douglass

(Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave, 2001 and See Also Thoreau, 1993). This comparative essay examines ...

History of Racism in the United States

including women, but while things would eventually be repaired to the point of some closure on the subject-intermarriage, black ca...

Perspectives on Slave Narratives

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the living conditions featured in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass wit...

Confessions of Nat Turner, An Analysis

This paper focuses on "The Confessions of Nat Turner" and discusses the layer quality of the narrative. The writer also compares t...

Credibility of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in Terms of the Black Experience

In 5 pages this paper argues that Douglass's literacy taints is portrayal of the black experience because of the Western ideology ...

Being Black in the US and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Confessions of Nat Turner

These texts are contrasted and compared in an assessment of what being black in the US means in five pages. Two sources are cited...

American Dream as Represented by Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin

In five pages this paper examines how these important men's lives reflect the concept of the American Dream as depicted within Nar...

'Interior Life' of Slaves and Toni Morrison

As the development of bound labor in the American south moved from the indentured servitude system of the colonial era to the grow...

Comparison of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass

of the public social sphere, keeping themselves completely within the domestic sphere. The "good" or "true" woman was passive, dep...