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Slavery and Women

This paper examines such slave narratives as Annie L. Burton's The Narrative of Bethany Veney: A Slave Woman and Memories of Child...

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...

Gender Issues Involved in Freedom from Slavery

In five pages the gender differences regarding freedom and slavery issues are considered within the context of the writings Uncle ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

Ivan Ilych versus 'Slave Girl' Linda Brent

In one page this paper compares the characters Ivan Ilych from Leo Tolstoy's short story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' and Linda Brent...

Plantation Economic Impacts of Slave Women's Work

ramifications (Jacobs). Consider all of the white women who would discover their husbands having affairs with slave wome...

Antebellum South's Women Slaves

Being put into a position of having to sexually service their master was the ultimate blow to a female slaves psyche. This...

An Analysis of Virginia Woolf's, Jacob's Room

death in The Great War. Unlike classical protagonists, Jacob exists not in the center of the action but always on the periphery (...

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...

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...

Political Aspects of Slavery

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

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; ...

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...

Comparing Jacobs and Wilson

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy

by employing a chauffeur. Miss Daisy has strict ideas of what is right and proper, and having been brought up in Jewish social cul...

A Critique of Harriet Jacob's Novel, Incidents From the Life of a Slave Girl.

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...

Joseph Character Sketch in Genesis

injury, Joseph is a tattletale who brings to his father a "bad report" on his brothers activities. Considering this, it is reall...

Slavery and Phillis Wheatley's 'To the University of Cambridge, in New England' and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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

Of Flies, Mice and Men by Francois Jacob

In four pages Jacob's text about the work of biologists and their natural world perceptions is analyzed. There are no other sourc...

Slave Narratives Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Arn't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth Compared

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

Prophet Jacob's Life

mission of Abraham (2000). It is always Jacob who is seen as the smart one, but it is more than intelligence that many believe Jac...

Analysis of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery and Harriet Jacobs' The Perils of a Slave Woman's Life

This paper consists of five pages and analyzes the role gender played in these different accounts of slavery. There are no source...

Slavery According to Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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

Separate Spheres and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Benita Eisler’s The Lowell Offering

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

Jacob's Deception

that belonged to Joseph (Menn, 1997). Judah has deceived his father and now, he has his daughter-in-law deceiving him. There is al...