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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...

Overview of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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

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...

Mr. Covey Fight in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper examines the fight between Mr. Covey and Frederick Douglass as described in the Narrative. There are no ...

Frederick Douglass' and Frankenstein's Dehumanization

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the creature's dehumanization in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley with the dehumanizati...

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...

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 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, 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...

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...

Slavery Position of Frederick Douglass

union. This view was held largely because the issue was more than one of fairness or humanity. There was a great deal of money rid...

'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...

Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

In five pages this text is compared with Olaudah Equiano's novel and analyzed in terms of answering questions pertaining the audie...

Comparison of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Octavia Butler's Kindred

perspective. Furthermore, the perception of people as human chattel is examined, as is the role of a patriarchal American Souther...

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...

True Life Stories, Literature, and Issues of Gender, Sex, and Race

end, giving us a young woman who was never able to come to terms with her race, her sexuality, or her gender. She is the character...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the Theories of Michel Foucault

composed of those two forms from which they distantly derive." While this is only one small part of Foucaults work, it is clearl...

The Narrative of Harriet Jacobs

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

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

her story and by not putting in the names of locations either. Other than that her story is true. This is further documented in th...

Gender and Narratives: Rowlandson and Jacobs

two they took and carried away alive" (Rowlandson). In this she is clearly just presenting the facts, as anyone would do, be they ...

Black Literature and Its Portrayals of Sexual Molestation, Domestic Violence

This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...

Questions Concerning Five Works of Literature

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

American Society in Literature

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

Comparing and Contrasting Harriet Jacobs and Booker T. Washington

The writer compares and contrasts the lives and work of Harriet Jacobs and Booker T. Washington, and the prejudice they faced beca...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In seven pages these 2 different slave narratives are contrasted and compared. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....