Salvadoran Civil War

For many centuries, slavery was one of the common practices among many nations that affected many innocent individuals. As a result, it influenced writers to reveal the horrors of slavery despite the white-superiority society they lived in. In his autobiography, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African”, Olaudah Equiano focuses on his own experiences as a slave that motivated him to take a political stance in the abolition of slavery.…

“Nigger,” the moment the word came out of my mouth I remember the eyes of my teacher. My Sunday School teacher. My black Sunday School teacher. I had just heard a joke from a friend and was laughing. She asked me what was so funny. At 5 or so years old I do not recalling actually knowing what the N-word meant, I don’t even remember the joke and why I thought it was so funny. Perhaps, early onset peer-pressure, but likely it was at least in part what Wendell Barry refers to as the “hidden wound.”…

Title It is not uncommon to hear about the heroes of the nation or the world, but many times, people look at these heroes at from a racial side. One can often hear about how certain figures transformed society, and how they look at a certain race, because of their feats. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines, “Mr. Joe Louis, Help Me” by Michael Zeitler and “Why Beyoncé Speaks for a Generation” by Henry Knight reveal a truth about the past and current community as it stands. As a society,…

Fredrick Douglas was born in Talbot County, Maryland in approximately the year of 1818. He was born into slavery and later in his lifetime he gained his freedom and became an abolitionist. Douglas wrote an autobiography of his life, a book named The Narrative of The Life of Fredrick Douglas. According to Douglas, the slaveholders Christianity was oppressive for enslaved people through the white’s interpretation of the bible and their hypocrisy. The slaveholders interpreted the Bible in a way…

officers. Whether it was an accident or not, these actions deserved consequences and most of the officers who were responsible for these deaths were not met with any serious consequences. The outcome of these cases brought out a serious amount of civil unrest around the country; riots and protests occurred throughout this time, people want justice for those who were wrongfully murdered. Colin Kapernick, a professional football player who has decided to not stand…

Khoa Pham Professor David Howard Pitney History 17A section 03 10/21/2017 Question A2 Olaudah Equiano: Great Fortune and Journey To the Freedom Is it possible for a slave to earn the knowledge and get out of the slavery in the 18th century? It requires a great fortune with hard-working and learning. Olaudah Equiano was the person that had changed his fate, as a slave, survived among the Whites and Europeans, saved money by the merchant, bought himself a ticket to become freedom one more time. He…

the Union. What happened at Harper’s Ferry was a fruitless assault by a man who had very poor judgement as far as leading a military attack. The anger between the North and the South became greatly widened and eventually lead to the secession and Civil…

The grandfather was a former slave who actively fought in the civil war. His last words were a collection of phrases which seemed like random babble at first. However as the story progressed, so did the clarity of the meaning of the grandfather’s last words. What the grandfather was implying was to never conform to the white’s way of life in society. Never to lose your true colors and who you are as to where you came from. That grandpa wanted the blacks to shove so much of their own identity, so…

A Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass Fredrick Douglass was born into slavery to be owned as property. In his autobiography, A Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass allows us to see a firsthand experience of how it is to be bought and sold, owned by many different owners, and repress from any education. We will take a look at the different slave owners and how they treated their slaves, the difference between urban and rural areas, and how he overcame illiteracy. The act of owning…

a profound partition among American society that required generational burden to undo its outcome. In the 1960s, when O’Connor published her short story, Everything that Rises Must Converge, there was a social commentary in the Southern about the civil right movement. At the time, there was a division of standpoint amongst white Americans towards the movement based on the dichotomy of literate vs. illiterate. Andrews, Beyerlein, and Farnum, while analyzing inconsistent of perspective among the…