After reading both novels Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass I can now compare and contrast both authors and their way of interpreting slave life to the reader. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811. She was the seventh child of a famous protestant preac...

Jenkins, Wilbert L. Seizing the New Day: African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. The end of the Civil War may have ended the institution of slavery, but this emancipation did not necessarily mean that African Americans in post-Civil War Cha...

My Bondage and My Freedom is widely considered to be one of the mosthistorically influential documents produced in the midst of theabolitionist movement. Written by a former slave, the memoir served as amoving argument against the inhuman institution of slavery in Americanhistory. Interesti...

All Men Created Equal America has undergone incredible hardships as a nation. No issue has had more impact on the development of the American definition of freedom than the issue of slavery. Did the Constitution specify which men were created equal? Surprisingly enough the phrase "all men are ...

In American history periodic acts of violent resistance by black slaves during more than two centuries of chattel slavery signifying continual deep-rooted discontent with the condition of bondage and resulting in ever more stringent mechanisms for social control and repression in slaveholding areas....

Slavery has been of significant importance in American history.During the antebellum period, slavery undergirded the economy of the UnitedStates, dominated politics and eventually led to the war between the Northand South (Institution 1991). After the Civil War, the legacy left behindof slave...

The Killer Angels is a tale of one of the bloodiest battles, in the bloodiest war that America ever waged-the Civil War. The book is a work of fiction in that it unabashedly reconstructs personal narratives of different historical protagonists, and attempts to give a moment-by-moment historical acco...

Daughters of the DustIn the article, The Black South in Contemporary Film, I read about the usage of religion in Julie Dash's movie, Daughters of the Dust. The way religion is used in this article is not the standard way we think of it, for an example going to church or celebrating Sabbath, but rel...

In The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara recreates the Battle of Gettysburg through vivid pictures of events during and leading up to the battle and to reconstruct the actions of several generals who participated. In The Killer Angels the lives of some of the survivors of Gettysburg are relived. Within ...

The two hundred seventy-two words of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address are as significant today as they were six score and seventeen years ago. Garry Wills' "Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America," explicates these two hundred seventy-two words and paints a new picture that gives...

Imagine living under the thumb of a legal system that failed to provide equality of rights, based on the color of one's skin. This was especially true for black's living in the South during the early 20th century. With little federal oversight and even less concern for the civil rights of minorities...