Abolitionism

In the historical fiction novel, “Forge,” by Laurie Halse Anderson, tells the story of Curzon Smith, a runaway slave who enlists in the rebellion against the British during the American Revolution. It is a sequel to “Chains” where “Forge” begins after Curzon has been deserted by Isabel, a friend whom of which had freed him from imprisonment at the end of the previous novel. Along the arduous journey, the protagonist faces “ignorance, mistrust, and greed” including the conditions that come along…

“Pain and pleasure do not enclose him, he encloses them- and with profound repose. And since he is what all of us may be, his presence, his image, the mere naming him, helps”(Campbell 129). In the book, The Hero With A Thousand Faces, Campbell, an American mythologist, writer, and teacher ,elaborated all the stages that a person experience to become an archetypal hero. An archetypal hero possess characteristics that represents universal pattern of human nature. One of the stage is the apotheosis…

Frederick Douglass had the rare life of an escaped slave, and once he escaped, he was able to establish himself economically and politically. He described his escape as he had “stole himself from his master.” He had the benefit of being able to read and write as a young slave and this later lead to his successful future. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was written to show what he had experienced throughout his life and shown he had grown as a person despite the tumultuous…

Phillis Wheatley Informative Essay Can you imagine George Washington the first president of The United States of America inviting you to his headquarter, due to your success? That was the case for a young woman named Phillis Wheatley. She was captured and sold as a slave at a very young age, however, she overcame her rough life and became the first African American woman to publish a book. Phillis Wheatley positively impacted American society by, being a successful young poet, that used her…

James M. Whitfield and Frances Ellen Harper were both blacks born in free states but later went on to become the most important writers to write the most influential literature of the abolition period. They both were popular social reformists and important figures in history. Whitfield and Harpers works were the most notable during the fight for anti slavery and strong believers of freedom in the nineteenth century in America. Their Poems and books were sold in scores of thousands thus their…

John Brown said before being hung,“(I) Never intended murder, treason, or destruction of property or the excite or incite the slave to rebellion or make insurrection.” During 1857, John Brown, an abolitionist, was raising money to help abolish slavery in the South, also to get an uprising of the slaves and to create a rebellion.The main plan of the raid was to get the slaves to join his rebellion, but it failed as a raid. Even though it failed as a raid it created a greater divide between the…

To start from a Pro-Slavery point of view, George Fitzhugh was a Virginia lawyer and the author of two books and various articles that advocated slavery. Fitzhugh's famous words "…the negro race is inferior to the white race, and living in their midst, they would be far outstripped or outwitted in the chaos of free competition." This was one of his arguments presented in "The Universal Law of Slavery." In this document, Fitzhugh also argued that slave owners were perhaps doing their enslaved…

At the end of his 1845 memoir, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass explains that he hopes his book “may do something toward throwing light on the American slave system, hastening the glad day of deliverance to the millions of my brethren in bonds…” (95). Throughout his memoir, Frederick Douglass expertly expresses the true effects of slavery not only on the slaves but also on the slaveholders. This is most evident after Douglass is sent to Baltimore where he is given…

Jubilee is a book written by Margaret Walker based on the life of her great, great grandmother, Elvira Dutton, known in the book as Vyry. It was at a time when slavery was still in the United States. Some of the things that happened in the book also happened in history, like the American Civil War, the emancipation of slaves by Abraham Lincoln, and the emergence of the infamous KKK or Ku Klux Klan. The first part of the story told about Vyry’s struggle during her time as a slave. This story kept…

In Frederick Douglass’s Autobiography, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, he documents his experience as an American slave. His autobiography was published during the abolition movement to end slavery in the United States. Douglass’s life story showed the power of persuasion to influence society to see the impact of slavery. In this essay, I will exhibit Douglass’s use of imagery, pathos, and syntax that helped alter the view of slavery towards the American people. Douglass’s use of…