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- 511: Jane Austen: Background of Her Novels
- ... between the "genteel" rural English society that Jane Austen describes and the outside world, since Fanny's uncle is a slave-owner (with an estate in Antigua in the Caribbean; slavery was not abolished in the British empire until 1833). Like a number of other topics, Jane Austen only chose to allude glancingly to the slave trade and slavery in her novels, though she was aware of contemporary debates on the subject. Mansfield Park was one of only two of Jane Austen's novels to be revised by her ...
- 512: Oklahoma History
- ... the treaty and breakup the Indians. That was a major broken promise to the Indians. This state was formed by discouraged and displaced people. When the Government freed blacks from slavery, very few blacks knew how to read and write. The ones that knew how, found jobs, but that left around one million black people homeless. With the destruction to the ... the government for that, so they wanted to live in a place where they did not have to abide by the government. The blacks were happy to be out of slavery. They had no place to work and no place to get an education. When the government passed the Jim Crow law saying that blacks could be segregated by not able ...
- 513: Black Boy
- ... the very association with Samaritans as a deep sin. In 1861_1865, the United States divided brother against brother in one of its bloodiest battles of all time over black slavery. Racism survives not simply as an intangible historic fable but as a real modern problem, also. In current civilization Arab Palestinians war with Israelis to find a homeland; the Ku ... this "apartheid America." Although less subtle in the lives of Americans then, racism also thrived in the souls of people living during the 1920's. Even though the war on slavery was over in the battle fields, white racists were blood thirsty lions at heart, as was demonstrated in the book Black Boy. The setting of Black Boy is in the ...
- 514: The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
- ... education to the fullest extent possible for girls in those days. She was a suffragist and Quaker abolitionist. In 1840 she was chosen as a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, but was banned because women were not aloud to vote. The year 1848 was a tremendous year for Elizabeth Cady Stanton, for this was the year that ... which was a liberal function led by Elias Hicks. Together Lucretia and her husband helped organize the American Antislavery Society in 1833. They were both delegates to an International Anti-slavery Convention in London, in 1840. Unfortunately, Lucretia was excluded because of her sex. So she devoted most of her time and energy in helping provide equal rights for women. She ...
- 515: The Defining of a Nation
- ... a war within itself over the issue of whether a man has the right to own another man. We were one of the last countries in the world to abolish slavery and yet, even at the time of slavery's existence, we were considered one of the most advanced nations in the world. Another one-hundred years down the road children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren of these same former ...
- 516: South Africa
- ... thousands of British colonists arrived in South Africa, and they demanded that English law be imposed. English became the official language in 1822. The Khoi/San were given protection, and slavery was abolished in 1833. When the Dutch, or the Afrikanns found out that slavery was ebolished they got angry, because they thoght that the Bilble said that black people were supposed to be slaves, which then created the Boer war. It is now 1948 ...
- 517: The Red Badge Of Courage
- ... or if the South had won? Just the thought of it makes me feel ill. There would be so many things different than they are now. Would there still be slavery? Would it spread to the western United States? The Civil War shaped this country's moral beliefs in that it will not tolerate slavery. What would the government be like? Would there be communism? Would there be worldwide chaos? These are some of the questions that come to my mind when I think about ...
- 518: Jim's Role in Huckleberry Finn
- ... Once he has experienced a kind of freedom, he understands all the better what he has been deprived of, and isn't willing to go back to the chains that slavery give him. It also shows that slaves were human. If slaves could feel fear and understand the consequences of getting caught running away, then it follows that they could feel ... and whether or not he is a slave doesn't matter at all. The end of the book though, raises some odd questions. The entire section where Jim is in slavery again is tough to read. Jim is free! The entire "escape" is unnecessary, yet Tom persists in it anyway, even making it harder, to make it into a "grand adventure ...
- 519: Vonnegut's Portrayal of Society in Breakfast of Champions
- ... the hunt. They merely lived off the land being kind to all things. "The sea pirates were white. The people who were already on the continent were copper-colored. When slavery was introduced onto the continent, the slaves were black. Color was everything" (11). Vonnegut's basic description of early America is sadly true. The newcoming Europeans thought that they were a superior race of beings, and that they had the right to enslave others and force them to do their bidding or be punished. Even after slavery was eliminated, whites looked down on other races, referring to them as unfeeling, ignorant, labor machines (11). According to Vonnegut, the United States is the core of a materialistic race ...
- 520: The Civil War
- ... did not free all slaves everywhere, it was the action that would push Congress to pass the thirteenth amendment in 1865. The amendment, ratified later in 1865, stated that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude . . . shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." It seemed democracy had triumphed by giving freedom to slaves, but the amendment was not complete. It only stopped slavery, and made no provisions for citizenship; therefore, blacks were still not considered United States citizens. The fourteenth amendment was the democratic expansion that fixed that problem. Originally passed to "put ...
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