Amy Biehl

The document that is being reviewed is The Life of a Female Slave written by Harriet Jacobs. Harriet Jacobs was an African American slave that, after many harsh trials, was able to obtain her freedom, along with her children, by escape to a free state. Jacobs is responsible for her own writings, in the sense that she both wrote them and published them herself, which is remarkable because during this time it was uncommon for slaves to be able to read and write. Jacobs’ writings were later…

considered a decent life and instead had to go and live in an even worse condition. In Mother to Mother, SindiWe Magona explains the harsh reality and reasoning for why her neighbor’s son might have been responsible for the death of Amy Biehl- a white girl. Amy Biehl died due to a group of young black mob stabbing her with a knife. Magona gives the readers insight into…

by witches, ancestors, or curses. These faiths could explain why there was a bad harvest or crop failures, unpleasant illness or unanticipated death, or even the dying of sacred animals. In the article, A Salvage Ethnography of the Guinea Worm by Amy Moran-Thomas whom reported her main thesis as a viewpoint about a “hard-fought health campaign against a centuries old pathogen, and the conflicting priorities and values, and laden paradoxes of humanitarianism at play as medicine breaches…

Abolishing Prisons is Wrong Angela Davis argues that the prison system exemplifies white privilege. She claims this is true due to the fact that “more than two million people… now inhabit U.S. prisons, jails, youth facilities, and immigrant detention centers” (Davis, 2003, pg. 10). She also states that out of these two million incarcerated people, the largest population per capita is Native Americans, seventy percent are people of color, and the fastest growing population is black women (Davis…