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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...

'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...

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...

Liberal and Republican Views on Slavery and Emancipation

Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...

Freedom Concepts of Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano

with a family with a young child, she takes a liking to him and when "child cried so much after me that nothing could pacify her t...

Theme of Slavery in 3 Literary Eras

slaves are forcibly taken from their native lands, "Husbands from their Wives, Parents from their Children," which he argues goes ...

Frederick Douglass and Roots

of his people, and growing into a man prior to his becoming a slave. In these respects the reader gets a very different look at sl...

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...

Alcohol According to Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass

playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whisky; and this latter mode of spending the time was...

Career of Frederick Douglass

In six pages this research paper examines Frederick Douglass's amazing life and career with his philosophy of empowerment emphasiz...

Human Nature as Defined by Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper compares Frederick Douglass's definition of human nature with that of the Black Codes, Jefferson Davis, a...

Abolitionist Movement and Frederick Douglass

again that not only did slaves have feelings, they had the ability to be intellectually equivalent, if not superior, to those that...

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 ...

Great American Frederick Douglass

In six pages this research paper celebrates Frederick Douglass's life and achievements as he transformed himself from illiterate s...

Brilliant Public Speaker Frederick Douglass

In six pages the speech 'What to the Slave is the Fourth of July' is analyzed in terms of its structure and style along with a dis...

Analysis of Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

on the period of slavery in the United States. When one reads of the life of this chattel, he or she is forced to see the total i...

Overview of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In five pages Douglass's autobiography is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Violence in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass

he had no real knowledge of his actual age ? "Having never seen any authentic record containing it" (Douglass, 2001). According to...

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...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Slavery as an 'Injurious' Institution

human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so. Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she wa...

Frederick Douglass: The Inherent Cruelty of Slavery

a slave and, once he had escaped, carefully honed that skill along with his oratorical and writing skills for use as a tool in the...

'The Hypocrisy of Slavery' by Frederick Douglass

In five pages Douglass's speech and his use of political rhetoric are examined within the context of the 1852 time period in which...

Slavery as Described by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs

he raped her and forced her into acts, there is enough information to assume that this is what occurred. And, if it didnt it was s...

Violence and Frederick Douglass's Narrative

In six pages this paper examines how the Narrative depicts violence as being sexually and slavery gendered. There are no other so...

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...

Frederick Douglass's Narrative, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Struggle

In five pages this report discusses the importance of struggle in these nineteenth century American literary masterworks that feat...

Frederick Douglass's Role and Modern Racism

In five pages current racism attitudes are related to the role of Frederick Douglass and the significance of his work. Two source...

Frederick Douglass's Writing Critically Analyzed

Critical opinion is employed in this analysis of the autobiography of Frederick Douglass consisting of five pages. Four sources a...

Strength of Will and Compassion in Frederick Douglass's Narrative

In four pages this paper examines how the author's characteristics of perseverance, faith in the truth, gift for observation, educ...

Stereotypes in Frederick Douglass’s Narrative

Chapter 1, Douglass reveals two facts that have come to be considered typical of slaves: he doesnt know how old he is, and his fat...