How Was Rachel Reunited With Henry

Improved Essays
Explain how Rachel was reunited with Henry?

Sometime around after the Civil War, Rachel started to work as a cook for the Union Army in New Bern, North Carolina. One night, a division of black Union troops enters her kitchen, she saw her lost son Henry there.

How did Rachel know it was Henry?

Slaves were uneducated because it was against the rules to be taught how to read and write. I remember this line from the story which caught my attention. Racheal said something about his forehead if I remember that right and she thanks the Lord for returning her Henry to her.

How did Henry know it was Rachel? After the party ended Henry returned to the house the falling day where he reunited with his mother.

Write a character sketch of Rachel

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Robert Hayden touches on the subject of slavery with a morbid and religious experience, he talks grimily about the boats and how the slaves were kept during transport and how God had no mercy on them as they traveled. Most of the poems I have read about slavery and about overcoming a persevering through the hard times, they have talked about being mistreated, death, starvation and cruelty. Hayden goes into more detail than I can imagine and does not hold back, he makes sure when you read his poem that you feel what has been felt by every man, woman and child going through those devastating times. "Deep in the festering hold thy father lies, the corpse of mercy rots with him, rats eat love's rotten gelid eyes." (Hayden, 2375).…

    • 268 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Slavery had remained prevalent in the Southern state up to 1860. When slaves were first brought to America, they were primary used to work on plantations in both the Upper and Lower South harvesting crops like cotton and tobacco. As time passed, other forms of labor became favored in the Upper South and slavery began to slowly diminish in some southern states. However, plantation owners still heavily relied on slaved to grow and harvest their crops. The main changes in slavery that occurred between 1815 and 1860 were that the Upper South became more diversified and no longer relied on slaves as a labor source, while the Lower South tried desperately to maintain their slave population by changing their ideologies and attitudes towards them.…

    • 547 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Have you had an inspirational person in your life. Someone who has ever helped you to do things you wouldn’t do well or start something but your too scared to do it. Mother Jones and Harriet Tubman are two of the most inspirational people that did do something for the greater good two women that inspired many people and gave hope. Mother Jones was a woman that saw after the children working in the mills saw the conditions and wanted to help the children so she organized a march and went straight to the president. Harriet Tubman was a slave that wanted to be free like all the other slaves she was a tough young woman when she heard about the story of the underground railroad.…

    • 1415 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate / Was snatch’d from Afric’s fancy’d happy seat” (Wheatley, 24-25). This line from well-known poem To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, tells the first part of Phillis Wheatley’s remarkable story. Brought to America as a young child, Wheatley became of the first to display African people’s emotional, spiritual, and intellectual ability. Though her life was short and sad, it was a testimony of African American talent to the whites of her day and influenced African Americans after her to display their talent too.…

    • 1105 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the slave narrative, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom completely diminishes the poorly exaggerated stereotype of a black person as shown in the documentary Ethnic Notions, which was widely believed amongst the masses. William and Ellen Craft ultimately used the societies naiveté to their advantage as they made their great escape unscathed. Their journey from Georgia, a principal slave state is a remarkable tale that encompasses loyalty, courage, love, and wit unparalleled to what may have been expected from a slave. William Craft effectively played his role as an obedient slave towards “his master” while escaping the atrocious life of a slave. Ellen Craft expertly mirrored that in which enslaved her playing a vital role in their escape.…

    • 723 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Throughout Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, the reader is given much insight into Jacobs’ personal thoughts and feelings on matters such as slavery, sin, education, and importantly, religion. Jacobs’s understanding of God and religion goes through an evolution shaped by her own encounters and circumstances as well as of those she held dear. In many instances, Harriet was heavily influenced by her grandmother, a caretaker to the girl for the better part of her young life. Though she learned from both good and bad, Harriet never rebuked her religion. Instead, she recognized the taint of slavery and believed in her own way.…

    • 1420 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The implementation of Christianity in slavery proved to be controversial and mind puzzling as the peaceful ideas derived from the Bible juxtaposed with the cruel treatment and intentions exercised by slave owners and masters. Consequently, slave owners and overseers stood blind to how their tyrannical exercise of power devastated the mentality and experience of an African American in the 18th to 19th century United States of America. Slave narratives as a literary genre enhanced towards the middle of the 19th century as the sentiment of abolition and freedom started to rise. A multitude of slaves scribed and reflected on their times in enslavement, which includes Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, and Phyllis Wheatley. Although…

    • 1399 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Land of the Free and the Home of the Slave The American Dream - a major pull factor for immigrants all around the world and a source of pride for Americans. The American Dream was the epitome of liberty, the idea that one could pursue success and happiness, under the freedom granted under the United States of America. Democracy, social mobility, and prosperity.…

    • 770 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Power of Blissful Ignorance: Frederick Douglass was one of the most important American figures born in the 19th century. He was born into slavery, however, he taught himself to read, write and become a fantastic public speaker. In his book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, ignorance is shown to have been used as major weapon by slave owners during the slavery era in the United States. Frederick Douglass clearly conveys how ignorance was used to justify the institution of slavery to African-American slaves; in attempt to keep them accepting of their condition. However, under the surface, Frederick Douglass also conveys how blissful ignorance was used to justify the institution of slavery to American society and even slave owners…

    • 1272 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    PDA: The Hireling and the Slave A Justification of Slavery The following analysis will examine, The Hireling and the Slave, by William John Grayson. The following questions will be addressed: What is the historical context of this period? Who is the author and what segment of the population was this author attempting to reach?…

    • 1282 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Fredrick Douglas was born in Talbot County, Maryland in approximately the year of 1818. He was born into slavery and later in his lifetime he gained his freedom and became an abolitionist. Douglas wrote an autobiography of his life, a book named The Narrative of The Life of Fredrick Douglas. According to Douglas, the slaveholders Christianity was oppressive for enslaved people through the white’s interpretation of the bible and their hypocrisy. The slaveholders interpreted the Bible in a way that suited them in the system of slavery.…

    • 902 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Consequences of Gender on Freedom In antebellum America, a new genre of literature emerges as freed or escaped slaves begin to write about their experiences in bondage. In a time period of institutionalized slavery and general compliance to its role in society, people know and care little about the issues that slaves faced; but with the emergence of this new genre, general education on the lives of slaves begins to make an impact. The rise of the abolitionist movement is fueled by these accounts, and opens up discussion on many new topics about the legitimacy of slavery. One of the most notable writers of this time is Frederick Douglass, a former slave who became educated and wrote his account, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass,…

    • 1330 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Henry Bibb was an American slave throughout most of his life. Like most slaves, Bibb was severely unhappy with his masters and tried to get away from them nonstop but running away. In his autobiography, The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave, Bibb is successful in trying to convince his readers to think of slavery as unjust and wrong through means of showing the cruelty of slave owners and the horrible treatment slaves went through. In his autobiography, Henry Bibb goes into detail about the cruel way most slaveowners handled their slaves.…

    • 876 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Chapter 1: The author depicts the relationships between slaves and their masters in Kentucky. Outside characters like the slave trader help the reader identify with the economic and social issues that inundate slavery and southern living. Chapter 2:. As depicted in chapter two, slaves are not permitted to marry, and some masters even prohibit their slaves from succeeding in factories to force them to “know their place.” Slaves who are treated poorly by their masters often lose their faith and struggle to find meaning in life.…

    • 1371 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in Edenton, North Carolina but died a free woman and abolitionist (HJ XXI). She was unaware of her status as a slave until she was about six years old while living with close relations to her mother, father, brother, and grandmother (HJ 5). Throughout Jacobs’ life, the struggle with religion was apparent in her novel, constantly torn between the belief and doubt in a good higher power. Harriet Jacob’s views of religion wavers throughout her lifetime.…

    • 1553 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays