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In five pages this paper discusses how gender slavery is the byproduct of the American patriarchy with references made to this 186...

as the defining characteristic of an unmarried woman. In other words, according to the cultural definition of femininity a "good" ...

as her Gran, her brother and several aunt and uncles (Perez-Stable 24). When the Old Mistress in the house dies, Jacobs comes unde...

In five pages this paper examines how multiculturalism is represented in such American literary works as The Souls of Black Folk b...

This 3 page paper gives answers to questions about the works Song of Myself, slave narratives, Bartleby the Scrivener the subtitle...

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

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

1861). The influence of the Flints: Dr. Flint and his wife were Harriets master and mistress, and they deserve the name Flint for...

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 ...

"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 examines Frederick Douglass the man as reflected in the 1881 publication of The Life and Times of Freder...

In 6 pages this paper examines the problems confronting enslaved African Americans within the context of Narrative of the Life of ...

In five pages this fight as presented in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is examined as evidence of the freed slave's ...

all the freedoms in the world. He even has the freedom to own another human being. The slave is made to live and work when and w...

on pious airs, she would present herself as she was and play off of the conventional slave stereotype. Then, when the social main...

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

In five pages this paper examines narratives by Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass in a consideration of nineteenth century sla...

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...

and sorrow" (Prince; 1). She was soon sold off to a master and then began to learn about being beaten and abused as a slave. Sh...

ways, black women had to endure two types of prejudice. They had the stigmatism of being slaves, and then, as if the issue of race...

wives of plantation owners, while the majority of them were well educated, rarely left their manicured grounds without their husba...

In one of the most significant slave narratives ever written, Jacobs -- born a slave to mulatto parents in 1813 North Carolina -- ...

were incapable of having the same feelings, the same needs, the same emotional attachments to loved ones that white people maintai...

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

In five pages this paper discusses the life of Harriet Tubman, her life as a slave and her activism such as her Underground Railro...

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

In five pages Douglass's Narrative is assessed with examinations of slave culture and slavery's psychological effects included in ...

In two pages this paper examines Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass with the focus being the use of the term slave in an ...

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...