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lucrative crops such as tobacco, rice, indigo and cotton. African American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the country and the invention of the cotton gin helped solidify the importance of slavery to the South’s economy. However, Slaves were exposed to cruel treatment. They endured sexual assault, abuse with and without instruments of torture, being shackled, lynched, burned, castrated, mutilated, and branded. By the mid 19th century, a great debate sparked over the westward…

However, time has not been split evenly between them. My main field study project was working with Benjamin Scott Blake, the head labor archivist, on the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) records. The AFL-CIO is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It represents fifty-six unions, both American and international, working together as a national trades union center. Together the unions represent more than 12 million active and retired…

Maya Angelou was a well known poet and civil rights activist. People thought very highly of her because of how well she wrote she wrote her poems and books. She worked as a storyteller, autobiographer, activist and poet. Out of all of her careers, was most famous for her writing (Maya Angelou). Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April 4, 1928. She was also a dancer, an actress, and a screenwriter. Her name given at birth was Marguerite Johnson (Maya Angelou Author, Activist, Civil…

Frederick Douglass Detailed Life Detailed account of the life of Frederick Douglass, written by himself in “Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave” first published in 1846. Frederick Douglass’s life began as a slave born to a slave. Mr. Douglass reflections of the cruelty against slaves as seen from such an early age. This paper will summarize Mr. Douglass’s early childhood, escape from slavery, prosperity in the north and his rise to being a nonviolent abolitionist. The…

Words can be very manipulative and persuasive, if used right, they can be used to get people to feel different emotions and make people do things. But also, they can be used to make people do things that they might not have ever done without hearing that speaker say what they said to them. Rhetorical and literary devices are included when people are trying to persuade and manipulate people to more effectively change peoples minds. In certain situations, this can lead to really bad endings and…

Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the second child of Bailey Johnson and Vivian Baxter. At the age of three her parents marriage ended and she and her older brother Bailey ( who was 5 at the time ) was sent to live with their father’s mother, Annie Henderson in Stamps,Arkansas. Angelou’s grandmother Annie was the child of freed slaves and also became the leader of the black community in Stamps. She was the owner of the only…

“Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.” -Erykah Badu. Just one of the many inspirational quotes said by the soulful artist. Born Erica Abi Wright later change to Erykah Badu,("kah" is an Egyptian term for one's "inner self," and "badu" is her favorite jazz-riff scat sound.) on February 26, 1971, in Dallas, Texas. Erykah was introduced into music and other arts in her early life because…

MUJEEB-UR-REHMAN’S SIX POINTS INTRODUCTION: Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rehman was the start dad of Bangladesh. During the idea of Ayub Khan and Yahya Khan, he performed many in Pakistan state guidelines as a well-known head of the Awami Team in Southern Pakistan. He offered a Six-Point program on 5 Feb 1966, together with his celebration and required the Pakistan government to accept them and to make use of them the way they were. The primary government of Pakistan was showing detest for the…

K use of Logos and Pathos in his Writings Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered for many things. He is a world renowned civil rights activist whose words affected the hearts of many. His marches united people race demanding the rights for all Americans in a peaceful, yet effective manner. His speeches drew crowds of thousands of people, whose lives were affected by his words. But how was Dr. King able to do so much with just words? Simple, it wasn’t just the words, but the language he used in…

businesses. When King wrote to his followers, he kept the people focused on their goal- freedom from segregation. Paine had that similar approach, except, instead of going from town to town fighting for freedom, bit by bit, he wrote once, to all Americans about why they should fight against the crown that has trapped them for so…