Notes from Underground

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in the year of 1852. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a famous author and an abolitionist. She was also in a group full of people that despised slavery and slave catchers. In the book she described the sin of slavery and tried to convince many people to stand up and stop slavery. The book, published in 1852 sold over 300,000 copies in just the first year. It became even more popular and sold over two million copies in the first ten years after…

The lack of encounters with slave owners during her formative years could possibly have contributed to her abolitionist stance, from not being numbed to the concept in her youth. Another great influence was the he Semicolon club.During Stowe’s career in Lane Theological Seminary, she joined the Semi-Colon club. At this club, she heard many different perspectives concerning slavery…

Fighting, Douglass did anything he could from speeches to helping slaves escape to get the pro-slavery people to change their minds on the way they used slavery. Another famous abolitionist point of view would be Harriet Beecher Stowe. Dealing with death, Harriet was crushed by the death of her…

spreading to all areas of the world. Reggaetón originated from the underground scene of Puerto Rico’s urban life, combining Puerto Rican hip hop with Jamaican dancehall. In Petra R. Rivera-Rideau’s, book Remixing Reggaetón Rivera-Rideau discusses the cultural politics of race in Puerto Rico, focusing on Reggaetón as a critique of Puerto Rico’s “racial democracy.” At the start of this book, Rivera-Rideau focuses on Puerto Rico’s underground music scene as a culmination of the African Diaspora…

Samuel Zemurray and Madame C.J. Walker were viewed from many for achieving the American Dream, the two embodied the quintessential American success stories of a Russian immigrant and daughter of a former slave. Zemurray and Walker, while they had completely different racial backgrounds, the two ultimately were more similar than not, and battled many of the same hardships. In a time of white privilege, many disadvantages emerged for an immigrant and African American women, the odds were strongly…

During the time of the slave trade, the process of helping and freeing slaves was a dangerous and brave act. The Underground Railroad was run by thousands of people that thought all people were created equal. The railroad was created in 1810 and helped move thousands of African Americans from the South to the free north of the U.S and Canada. The conception that the Underground Railroad was a well organized, perfectly functioning, utility used to free slaves, is an exaggeration. The railroad…

Create The woman from the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, created a hope for other slaves freedom by conducting the Underground Railroad. She was a slave herself and she wanted to help other slaves in need. Harriet Tubman risked at least two lives every time she went to save a slave in need of her help, Harriet's and the slave's (sometimes there were multiple slaves). She…

better. In the poem "Africa to America" written by Phillis Wheatley, this poem is about her and how she was brought to America. She was kidnapped and then Purchased to be a servant for her owners wife. Wheatley said in line 1 "T’was mercy brought me from my…

Harriet Tubman is a abolitionist women, That was worked hard trying to end slavery. She dreamed every day that slavery will come to a end. She died March 10th 1913. Harriet Was involved in War more. She se out raise funds for the war effort. She became more and more Famous. She tried her best to free the blacks, because she was tired of working for other people and being a slave and she knew the slaves felt the same way she did. Most people looked at her as being Moses because he help a couple…

and escaped slavery in 1849. She led hundreds of slaves to the north in seek of freedom using the Underground Railroad, an elaborate network of housed that supported the freedom of slaves. She was the most famous "conductor" on this railroad. During the Civil War, Harriet was the first woman to lead an armed expedition in war and liberated more than 700 slaves in South Carolina. Eli graduated from Yale College, formerly known as Yale University, in 1792. Whitney began producing cotton gins…