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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 ...

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...

Institution of Slavery

This paper consists of six pages and refers to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in a consideration of slavery in terms ...

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...

Dunbar, Berryman, and Hayden

a great and wondrous man that many would miss. Dunbar states: "And he was no soft-tongued apologist;/ He spoke straight-forward, f...

'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...

Frederick Douglass' Successful Speeches

In five pages this paper examines these successful speech methods employed by Frederick Douglass in terms of heightening emotions ...

Social Rebellion Success or Failure According to Frederick Douglass and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In eight pages this paper discusses how social rebels either fail or succeed in a comparative analysis of Narrative of the Life of...

Contemporary Race Relations' Philosophies

In five pages this paper contrasts the contemporary philosophies regarding U.S. race relations between Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. ...

Language Mastery in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In five pages this research essay discusses the language mastery of Frederick Douglass as a tool of survival and changing percepti...

U.S. Slave Children's Leisure and Play

In five pages this paper discusses the play and leisure activities of slave children in the United States as represented in the ci...

4 Questions on Literature

In five pages four questions pertaining to Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe are consi...

White People Portrayed in Works by Frederick Douglass and Mark Twain

In 6 pages this paper examines how white people are portrayed in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Adventures of Huc...

Political Aspects of Slavery

"In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity" (Douglass 279). These men were better equipped -- intellectu...

Literature and Social Injustice

In four pages this paper examines how social injustice is represented in William Blake's poetry, 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan S...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and the Theme of Personal Transformation

In five pages this paper examines the themes of political and personal transformation as they relate to Frederick Douglass' autobi...

Slavery Reflected in the Works of Henrik Ibsen, Frederick Douglass, and Jonathan Swift

In six pages this research paper discusses how slavery manifests itself in one form or another in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Trav...

Inspirational Frederick Douglass

"does not keep me from working to help people of all races." He authored The Life and Times of Frederick Douglas in 1881. Importa...

Concepts of Sexuality, Ethnicity, Race and Gender Altered by Slavery

In five pages this paper examines how these social perspectives are altered by slavery in a consideration of Harriet Ann Jacobs' I...

Democracy Benefits and Risks

well have acknowledged that mankind stands alone in his endless quest for more, a concept behind the reason society is its own opp...

Dominant Historical Discourse of Community and Self

Americans and women. Self-realization is one of the main concepts behind Douglass narrative; possessing the ability to read the w...

Frederick Douglass and His Political Perspectives

In ten pages this paper examines Frederick Douglass' political perspectives with similarities and differences between them and The...

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...

Frederick Douglass' Life

In nine pages the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is used to gain a greater understanding of the man behind the eloque...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Slave System Logic Logic

In five pages this paper examines the construction of a logical system within the context of slavery as described in Frederick Dou...

Civil Rights Movement and Its Origins

We would be living in Utopia, Nirvana, Serendipity or some other mythical place of perfection were it possible for that principle ...

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...

Olaudah Equiano and Frederick Douglass Lifestyles and Philosophies

the reader into the oppressive world of slavery. Indeed, it was the authors desire to bring attention to the injustices faced by ...

Literature and Freedom Themes

freedom is conveyed in The Awakening. Edna yearned to be free but she lived in a society where she felt a prisoner. She could not ...

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs on Male and Female Slaves

knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...