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Interpersonal Bonds in The Slave Community by John W. Blassingame

In a paper consisting of six pages the way in which the author reinterprets black history through slave narratives are examined in...

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...

Historical Context of the Term Slave and Frederick Douglass

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 ...

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....

Alexis de Tocqueville's 'Black Slave' Contention and Frederick Douglass

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...

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...

19th Century Race and Gender in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In five pages this essay examines 19th century race and gender as it is represented within this slave narrative. Two sources are ...

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...

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...

Slave Culture and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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

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...

Reviewing Charles T. Davis's Black Is the Color of the Cosmos Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture

In a five page review black literature during the 1960s and '70s is discussed and comparisons are made with slave narratives and t...

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...

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...

Author's Intentions and Objectives in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

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

Significance of Slave Narratives

control of countries worldwide. Naturally, showing dark natives the benefits of Western culture did not come without a price, as E...

Discovering the Women in Slavery Edited by Patricia Morton

1817. While a master could lawfully punish a slave, using his own discretion and judgment, state law established a limit and that ...

Overview of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

illustrating that Equianos people did not indulge in child labor - when two men and a woman came over their walls. Equiano and hi...

Controversy of I, Rigoberta Menchu

benefits which had been gained from the experience, since this would be counter-productive in terms of the effect on the reader....

Antislavery: Slave Narratives And Abolitionists

no uncertain terms gave all people unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? The American Di...

Lives of Quiet Desperation

other people, and from the conventions that bind us together. We might also consider the way in which Thoreau considers his hous...

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...

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...

Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane and Henry Fleming

yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he sees things differently: "His busy mind for him large pictures extravagant in c...

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...

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...

Slave and Master Impacted by Slavery

inferior didnt hold up in the light of his personal story. Equianos work showed the American slave owners and traders how hypocrit...

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...

Slave Narrative Comparison

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at slave narratives. Differing experiences are highlighted with respect to different e...

Southern and Northern Policy Concerning Slavery

This 3 page paper gives an answer to various questions concerning policy, sharecropping, and slavery. This paper includes explanat...