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- 331: Name And Naming In Beloved
- ... aforementioned examples, naming can be a powerful device if properly used. In Beloved Toni Morrison utilizes naming to convey many important aspects of the narrative. Throughout Beloved, the dehumanisation of slavery, the significance self-definition, and interpersonal relationships are all communicated through naming. Sixo, perhaps the most absurd name in Beloved, epitomizes the dehumanisation of slavery in Beloved. While the origin of the name Sixo is not specifically stated in the novel, it can be assumed that it was derived from the number given to him ... relative kindness of Garner, contrasted with the cruelty of Schoolteacher. (Morrison 10) While the distinction between Garner and other, less humane slave owners, is made, we are carefully reminded that slavery, in any form is inherently dehumanising. This reminder is made through, among others, Edward Bodwin, who, while a long-time friend of the Garners, declares, “We don’t hold ...
- 332: Huck Finn
- ... father, and Jim leaves to escape a false charge of murder. The rest of the story follows all of their exciting and action packed adventures down the Mississippi River. Themes Slavery is a big theme in this story. Mark Twain was obviously against slavery because it is hypocritical. Throughout the book we see Huck interacting with Jim as human to human, while everyone else treats him like a piece of property. He was especially against the Christians who promoted slavery, since it is obviously wrong and against Christian ideals. Twain also shows the hypocrisy in another theme, religion. In one scene, the Shepardsons and the Gangerfords are listening to ...
- 333: Causes And Effects Of The Amer
- ... The entire war lasted four years and claimed over 620,000 American lives with many more injured. Causes- Many people attribute the cause of this war to the abolishment of slavery and although that was one of the major catalysts in starting the war it was not the main cause behind the war starting. The main cause to the war starting ... tired” of the federal government meddling with the governing of individual states. The states thought that the government “meddled” too much in the affairs of individual states. The abolishment of slavery was just the excuse the south was looking for to secede from the union and form its own government placing the majority of the governing power in the states and ... injustices, etc. Now just having these problems doesn’t make a wheel i.e. a war, you still need the rim of the wheel. The rim in this case was slavery. The reason why this caused the south to secede was because the south’s economy was based upon the backs of slaves. The upper class politicians, the majority of ...
- 334: Race Relations in the United States
- ... during the discussion of race has to do with two little words. “I’m sorry.” President Clinton is trying to promote, as part of his racial healing, an apology for slavery on behalf of Congress and the United States Government. Is an apology in order? Many liberals feel that an apology would help ease the wounds and racial tensions caused by ... Mr. Clinton’s apology did not excuse the tragedy of the Tuskegee study, “but it may help close this unfortunate chapter in our nation’s history.” Why would apologizing for slavery not help close that unfortunate chapter in our nation’s history? It must be recognized that there are several differences between slavery and the Tuskegee experiment. Tuskegee experiment was a racist act of hostility that the government covered up and tried to pretend did not happen. A public apology, therefore, was ...
- 335: Racism: Issue In Institutional Racism
- ... Robert Smith writes about the inherent contradiction of espousing the self-evident equality of men and their God-given right to liberty while at the same time sanctioning genocide and slavery (Smith 8). The only way this incongruity could be remedied was to deny the fundamental humanity of those being oppressed. That negation of one group humanity by another is the ... savage, one must make those around oneself savages. To address the enslavement of Africans, it becomes necessary to once again look at the economics that fueled the decision to bring slavery to the United States. In capitalism, a driving force is to minimize costs and, as a result, maximize profits. The labor intensive tobacco and cotton fields presented the need for ... a low cost labor supply. Impelled by white supremacy, the English began to move away from the system of indentured servitude that characterized the early years of colonialization and towards slavery. By definition slavery must be sanctioned by the society in which it exists and such approval is most easily expressed in written norms and laws. From the moment Africans ...
- 336: Comprehensive New Orleans
- ... beginning years of the city, the first hundred or so, New Orleans was the safest, fairest place for Negroes to live with even the laxest of laws imposed on slaves. Slavery was not revered by the entire population as quoted by du Lac Perrin (Slavery) the greatest of all necessary evils, as well as to those who endure it, as those that are obliged to employ its victims . The slaves in New Orleans were given ... have Sundays and church feasts off, interracial marriages were forbidden among slaves, no slave was to carry a weapon, and slaves of different masters were not to socially congregate. Although slavery was better in New Orleans than in other areas of the south, slavery was not a humane option. In 1792 a slave by the name of Toussain L Overter ...
- 337: Huck Finn-Racism
- ... own racist views, or a critique of the injustice of White society? Many readers misinterpret racist remarks by characters in the novel as reflections of Twain’s own beliefs supporting slavery. These claims, though, can be easily repudiated by some of Twain’s comparisons between whites and blacks made outside of Huck Finn; for instance when he said, “One of my ... blacks, and the use of the word “nigger” over 200 times, but it is all part of the irony. Twain wrote this book not only to challenge the system of slavery, but also to do so with the most effective of literary devices: the truth. Huck Finn is not racist: It is a profound social statement on the inhumanity of slavery and of every individual’s born right to freedom. In chapter 32, Aunt Sally and Huck discuss a steamboat explosion: “Good Gracious! Anyone hurt?” asks Aunt Sally. “ No’m. ...
- 338: A Culture Destroyed
- ... the side of the beach. The Native Americans were already here and the whites treated them like they were intruders on the whites’ land. This, in some ways, was like slavery. Slaves were not respected. They were treated like animals and they had no way to defend themselves. Their culture was not respected and if they even spoke one word of ... protected her child and if there were she would have hidden her away from all the madness. When I read this I could really picture something like this happening in slavery. During slavery, children were expected to do just as their mothers did. If the mother was slave the children were expected to be slaves. The slave mothers would have done anything ...
- 339: African Americans In The Post
- Jefferson Davis stated in the pre-Civil War years to a Northern audience, You say you are opposed to the expansion of slavery... Is the slave to be benefited by it? Not at all. It is not humanity that influences you in the position which you now occupy before the country, (Davis, The ... mind. The African Americans gained their emancipation and new rights through the battling Northern and Southern factions of the United States, not because a majority of the country felt that slavery possessed a moral urgency . As the years passed and the whites began to reconcile, their economic goals rose to the forefront of their policy, while racism spread throughout the country ... new, colored American Citizens. With the protection and support of Northerners lost, the blacks in the South were held hostage by white supremacists. Although the 13th Amendment stated that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States, a new agricultural system, the crop lien, kept the blacks under the control of their (former) masters . With unfair trade ...
- 340: Plato vs. Aristotle
- ... of Rights is not necessary because it does not improve the good of the community. Another point of discrepancy between the philosophers and today's society involves the topic of slavery. Aristotle argues for the naturalness of slavery in The Politics, yet slavery has been considered grotesque for quite some time. In correlation to slavery, there is the undermining of the female population by Aristotle. Although Plato is a lot less discriminatory, ...
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