The Liberator

the City of Rome. In 43 B.C., Caesar's grandnephew, Consul Octavian, by then also formally known as Gaius Julius Caesar, immediately after taking office passed a resolution declaring the conspirators, including Brutus, murderers. This led to the Liberators' civil war, pitting the erstwhile supporters of Caesar, under the Second Triumvirate, wishing both to gain power for themselves and avenge his death, against those who opposed him. Octavian combined his troops with those of Antony, and…

Frederick Douglass is a famous activist and author during the mid to late 1800s who was born on February of 1818 as a slave. Although it was prohibited for slaves to learn how to be literate, his slave-owner’s wife ended up teaching him how to read and write. After becoming a free man and settling with his wife, Douglass became an Active Abolitionist. Douglass was also known to be a supporter of women’s rights. Douglass was known to be a critic of Lincoln, supporting John C Freemont even after…

Douglass used descriptions of events and circumstances to illustrate the dehumanization of African Americans by slave owners. However, Douglass utilized literary devices to create art and humanize himself and, by extension, all African Americans. Douglass often wrote analogies in his work. Douglass stated that physical violence “was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery,” thereby comparing physical violence to a gateway into slavery, which was like Hell. Hell is known to…

at convention’s pretensions is, at bottom, deadly serious”(55). Animal House has an undertone of seriousness showing the cruelty of the stuffy uptight social groups that occupy a college campus and presenting a pair of charming troublemakers as liberators of the…

with Che Guevara and his brother, Raúl Castro, Fidel Castro went on to become a principal contender in the armed uprising against the US-backed authoritarian government run by Fulgencio Batista. As a revolutionary leader, Castro’s competence as a liberator, and the future of Cuba has been reflected in his quote, “A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.” Through means such as his attempted coup d’état, we can envisage the extent to which Fidel Castro’s legacy has…

carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze the power struggle in Rome. After the death of Caesar it has been the mission of Mark Antony to bring an end to those that were involved during the assassination. These murders prefered the name “‘liberators of the republic.’” After they planned to get rid of Julius Caesar the “tyrant” it appears, little thought was put into who would rule after his death. They put Rome in a position where it needed what Julius…

“The soul within me no man can degrade”-Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass was a former slave and an important leader of the abolitionist movement, galvanizing anti-slavery reformers with his powerful quotes and sharing his successful slavery escape story. He also attended the Seneca Falls Convention and gave speeches in favor of women’s rights, and helped demonstrate the connection between the abolitionist movement and early feminist movements. The abolitionist movement contributed to the…

Long ago, the Spanish traveled across the Atlantic Ocean to Latin America. The Spanish settlers colonized the native people and taught them Christianity. Three centuries later, about 1808, the Spanish settlers thought that the king's laws were unfair. The taxes were too high and King Ferdinand VII didn’t allow them to have free trade. Some of the Spanish settlers, Creoles, knew about the French and American Revolutions, so they decided to revolt against Spain. The Creoles fought for…

This primary source, which is a letter written by Thomas Garrett, titled “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers” is from the book Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories, published in 2004. This letter describes the success of Harriet Tubman, a fugitive slave who escaped and helped other slaves escape using The Underground Railroad. The first part of the letter begins to describe how Harriet was considered to be “Moses” because she was so brave and daring to help these six slaves escape. It…

The American Civil War began in order to restore the union and not to abolish slavery. In 1862 , president Abraham Lincoln got the idea of expanding the goals of the war for the purpose of saving the country. The Emancipation Proclamation made a radical change in the aims of Lincoln’s policy. As a commander in Chief , Abraham Lincoln declared the liberation of enslaved African Americans who lived in Confederacy states knowing that they were in rebellion. The Proclamation was…