Abolitionism

Have you ever heard of the name Harriet Tubman, Harriet Tubman had many character traits some of them are independent, brave, and determined. Harriet Tubman’s character traits played a role in her deciden to escape from slavery. She lead 300 more slaves to freedom. When she was leading the slaves she had to go through woods quietly without getting caught. Harriet Tubman was independent, because she went north to south to free slaves on her plantation she would work on. She had to do that…

During his career as a slave, Frederick Douglass overcame many challenges. One of the challenges that heavily influenced Douglass’s point of view was a dispute involving Mr. Covey. After running from Covey’s plantation to St. Michaels, the house of Thomas Auld, his previous master, Douglass was sent back. When Douglass returned, Covey attacked him. As Covey tackled him to the floor, Douglass found the resolve to fight back and “seized Covey hard by the throat”. This act of self-defense proved to…

The American Slavery The “Letter to the American Slaves” was written when there was an increased rate of slave trade in America. The letter sought to address the situation of the blacks that suffered and continued suffering in the hands of federal marshals and other masters (Cazenovia Convention, 1850). It explained how the slave masters carried out slave trade; a trade that made many slaves suffer. The letter urged both free and fugitive blacks to keep off from the police officers that were…

Phillis Wheatley recognized that white people justified their immoral actions by arguing that they’re saving their slaves by converting them to Christianity. Wheatley decided to take her observations and turn it into the poem, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”. In this poem, the speaker is an educated slave who uses diction to mock and accuse highly educated Americans by pretending that she agrees with her target audience’s viewpoints. Wheatley develops the themes of slave conversion and…

In Frederick Douglass autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick describes life as a slave and facing good and bad slave owners, but one owner, Sophia Auld, changed throughout. Mrs. Auld was the wife of Hugh Auld and Douglass was her first slave to own. Douglass described Mr. Auld as greedy, however Mrs. Auld was kind and she even taught Douglass how to read. Mr. Auld persuaded Mrs. Auld to stop teaching Douglass and she began to treat him like…

The first comparison between Charles Dickens, Alexis De Tocqueville, and Fanny Trollope is how they all experienced the travels across the Atlantic Ocean into the newly found United States. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century was a gruesome, life-threatening endeavor for all travelers, regardless of wealth or health. Deciding whether to make the journey may have been harder. In 1831, Alexis De Tocqueville sailed for America aboard the Schooner LE Havre.…

If I had to choose a favorite subject, English would be at the top of my list. I am no perfectionist, although English is my preferred subject. I still lack many qualities that make an exquisite writer. I’ve been in school for approximately three weeks now and English is one of the many subjects I am taking. Luckily the professor I chosen is very nice, knowledgeable and adamant about the subject he teaches. Many English professors are able to teach but, it takes a good English professor enforce…

Slavery is a major part of U.S. History regardless of the negative reflection it puts on the United States. Slavery divided politicians, as well as states. Slavery was not the reason for the Civil War in the beginning, but it was always a main factor of the war, especially after the Emancipation Proclamation was introduced. In the article, “A Man but Not a Brother: Abraham Lincoln and Racial Equality”, by George M. Fredrickson, writes about Lincoln and his stance on slavery. Fredrickson records…

In 1816, this was created by Reverend Robert Finley to assist free black people in emigrating back to Africa. Finley believed the land of black people’s “fathers” was Africa. He wanted to find the positivity in colonization and the spreading of Christianity to Africa. Finley also believed that the American Colonization Society would bring an end to slavery. Finley saw blacks living in America as a threat to the status of the United States and the quality of life for white people. Finley declared…

Marcus Rediker in The Amistad Rebellion describes the Amistad Africans from when they were kidnapped and placed in the Atlantic Slave Trade to when they obtained their freedom and returned home. The Amistad case occurred during the middle of the Antebellum period when the Atlantic Slave Trade was abolished in several countries, including in America, and several reform and abolition movements, inspired by the Second Great Awakening, were calling for the end of slavery. It was also in the middle…