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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...

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 ...

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...

Comparing Americas' Slavery with Roman and Greek Slavery

This is a review consisting of twelve pages that compares and contrasts the institution of slavery in various times and societies ...

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...

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...

Voices of Black Authors in America

In fourteen pages the reasons why black authors of the 18th and 19th centuries had difficulty in discussing their experiences are ...

An Analysis of Frederick Douglass' Narrative

criticized. People like others to agree with them, and so, disagreement is disheartening. In the end, people conform in order to b...

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...

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...

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...

Freedom According to Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass

In five pages this essay compares Susan B. Anthony's speech while being indicted for voting illegally with Frederick Douglass's Ro...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

Philosophies of Anzia Yezierska and Frederick Douglass

In six pages the similar philosophies of Russian Jewish author Anzia Yezierska of New York's Lower East Side and freed slave Frede...

Antislavery Crusadeof Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper examines Frederick Douglass' life and the incredible abolitionist crusade launched by this freed slave. ...

Working for Freedom - The Life of Frederick Douglass

and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant1. Because he has no way of checking his ...

African American Life of Frederick Douglass

by and watch what he had worked for his whole life dissipate in front of his eyes. Douglass was not the typical African...

An Analysis of The Peculiar Institution

This 5 page paper analyzes the book by Kenneth M. Stampp. The author focuses on the institution of slavery as it existed in the ...

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...

Slavery: Institution and Experience

the new land. One group is illustrated wherein Gomez states that, "the way the Gullahs employed the use of high-low degrees was un...

Autonomy and Slavery

This essay begins by presenting the position of historian Ira Berlin that there was a modicum of autonomy within the institution o...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...