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Political Aspects of Slavery

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

The Institution of Slavery and its Impact on American Life

In five pages the ways in which the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass reflect slavery in America are exa...

Different Perspectives on Slavery

In five pages this paper examines the Civil War and after perspectives on slavery as viewed by John C. Calhoun, Frederick Douglass...

Nineteenth Century South and Slavery

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

Slavery and Freedom

In nine pages this paper examines slavery within the context of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and a 'free' mill ...

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...

Black Writers

industrial training (Washington). He believes that if black men produce something white men want, "instead of all the dependence b...

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...

Profiling Booker T. Washington

Washington and Realistic Hope For many individuals it is one thing to have ideals and to struggle for those ideals their entire l...

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...

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

Generational Writers on Loss and Death Concepts

is he doesnt necessarily find much of anything on the final journey. Though he finally adapts himself back to humanity following h...

Anger of Black Writers Towards Northern Whites

North, in Baltimore, seeing that people in the North, the whites, could be bitter ignorant people as well: "The watchwords of the ...

Poetry and Literary Effectiveness on the Topic of Lynching

water, boiling my limbs panting, begging I clutched childlike, clutched to the hot sides of death (Wright, 2003)....

Leaders of Social Movements and Their Challenges

good work in his book appropriately titled Good Work. Authors essentially provide a review of controversial professions, like gene...

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 ...

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 ...

Freedom Issues

"I Have a Dream" speech, in which King lambasted the United States for forbidding the Negroes to be free people (King). "We can ne...

Songs of the Black Experience

a distinctly more female approach, as it openly deals with gender issues and missing womanhood. The author, herself, once remarke...

Comparing and Contrasting 'Ar'n't I A Woman?' and 'What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?'

This 5 page essay considers how Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass attempt to through literature chronical the struggles of th...

Five American Thinkers and How They Employed the Declaration of Independence into Their Writings

thinkers in American history, including Andrew Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luth...

Franklin and Douglass

men and the student or this writer/researcher. In relationship to the importance of these two individuals, in the history of the...

Analysis Of Five Historical Speeches With Burke's Dramatistic Theory

become mantras for myriad people. 4. AGENCY While it may be true that war brings prosperity, Gandhi never put much...

Defining Equality

This paper explores the words of key nineteenth century Americans like William Graham Sumner, Chief Joseph, and Frederick Douglass...

Speeches of Great African Americans

In six pages the speeches and writings of Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington are discussed and reacted t...

State and Individual Control

In six pages this paper examines how the individual is controlled by this state in an analysis of Antigone by Sophocles, Narrative...

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...

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...

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...