Frederick Law Olmsted

I train for athletics on the weekends with a group of men who all have over 50 years on me. Training with them has and always will be the best decision I have made. My trainer is called Jack Giddy and he trained my grandfather in athletics as well. He is currently 93 years old. He and his wife, Snow, have been family friends with us for years. He had a friend called Reg Austin was also a runner that was trained by Jack when he was young. Born on October 16, 1936, Reg Austin was a runner from…

According to his autobiographical account, the Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave, “The Columbian Orator”’s eye-opening testimonies about how slave masters derive their power from abusing uneducated people disturbs Douglass into drastically changing his original indifferent stance about Master Hugh. First of all, the dialogue between the well-spoken three-time runaway slave and their master “resulted in the voluntary emancipation of the slave on the part of the master”…

After reading the Narrative of Frederick Douglass, I learned why he thought enslavers were criminals and why slavery is terrible. I also learned why Douglass wanted to be an animal of his own kind. When Douglass was a boy he was raised by an enslaver named Hugh Auld or “Master Hugh” as Douglass was forced to call him. Auld’s wife taught Douglass to read but Hugh soon found out and forbid it because he believed that it was unfit for a slave. Despite this Douglass was persistent and his remedy…

brave. Firefighters go out in the fire to rescue us or when we're stuck they come out and help us. Cops help us when someone has broken into our homes and has a weapon. Our everyday heroes do a lot without us even knowing. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass are both examples of heroes..According to Phineas D. Gurley in the article…

supported me and assured others that I was in the right. Even some of my desired rights for women did become legislation before the civil war. The prime example, despite being slightly outside the time frame listed, was the Married Women’s Property Law of 1860 in my home state of New York, which granted women the ability to retain ownership of property and money, giving them the increased sovereignty I knew they deserved. In the long run, even beyond my death, my work had major impacts, positive…

A slave song is a type of religious folk song that has “secret messages” to try and help slaves escape from slavery and get to freedom (Miles 518). These songs were sung by slaves in the 1860’s. When Africanized Christianity began to control slave population, spirituals became a new way to reflect one’s faith, sorrows, and hopes.White and Black spirituals differ in many ways. In fact, they differ on the content including one’s personal rights and living situations (Lewis 122). In the 19th…

The scenes I selected are from Frederick Douglass narrative. Frederick Douglass was born as a slave. He did not know his mother well and his father was a white man. When his first master died, he was sent to another plantation and the master’s wife taught him how to read and write. Before he escaped he give some whites bread to teach him how to read. He then decided to escape and getter his life where he settled. He became an activist, author, and helped slaves to become free. He was well known…

Throughout the excerpt “What, to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” the author Frederick Douglass employs rhetorical devices such as logos, ethos, and syntax to demonstrate how the white American was repressive towards the black Americans and how the white Americans dehumanize the slaves. He also expresses how ironic it was to have chains on the neck in one place while the Americans celebrate their freedom from the British. In the excerpt, Douglass implies logos to complement the white American…

After Dow was elected mayor again in 1855, he continued to fight for full enforcement of the Maine Law. The Maine Law allows towns to buy alcohol for medical purposes. In the spring of 1855, Dow had gone ahead and authorized the city to buy $1,600 worth of medicinal and mechanical alcohol for distribution to pharmacists and doctors. He was technically in violation of the law, since a committee wasn't appointed. News spread that Dow was storing alcohol in the city vaults which upset Portland's…

Mr. Freeland is the master after Mr. Covey, who happens to be the most just out of all Mr. Freeland symbolizes how a portion of the bosses was not all that savage and perniciousness. Since Douglass had a vastly improved ordeal being under Mr. Freeland's power than any of his different proprietors, it tells the audience that not all slave proprietors treated their slaves a similar way. Be that as it may, his character's nearness in the novel gives a tan thought of that it was so uncommon to have…