Underground Railroad

The Holocaust was a traumatic event that changed the course of history forever.Resistance efforts were what kept many people in concentration camps hopeful, knowing there are groups of people making a difference and fighting to liberate them.Mala Zimetbaum was a courageous and impressive women that never lost sight of what she believed in. Mala Zimetbaum devoted herself to help the prisoners at Auschwitz. She was born in Poland in 1918 but she was a Belgian women. She was the youngest of…

“Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.”(“Sojourner Truth”)An activist and reformer, escaped slave Sojourner Truth worked unceasingly to contribute to the advancement of the abolitionist movement and equality for all. Born into slavery, Sojourner Truth, originally named Isabella Baumfree, faced many difficulties in her life. At the…

Uncle Tom's Cabin is universally acknowledged that Uncle Tom's Cabin has another name --- Life Among the Lowly. Once, President Lincoln greeted Harriet Beecher Stowe by saying that "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” This book expresses the slavery's life under the influence of temporal society. In people’s mind, African American slaves were squalid. As a result, they treat them surlily and opprobriously. Uncle Tom's Cabin implied the Civil War in…

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was written based on the Civil War roughly around the 1800’s. Harriet Stowe wrote this novel due to the amount of tragic behaviors that were taken into place of slavery and the way African Americans were treated in the south. Harriet made her beliefs about how slavery was pure evil and her rebel against slavery all into a story called Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Harriet made all the characters in her novel nonfictional but, everything she…

Frederick Douglass said that, “ . . . slavery is alike the sin and the shame of the American people. . .” (Douglass 2). The Underground Railroad was used to break the devilish chain of events that were occurring during the 17th-19th centuries in America (What). Throughout the course of these events, conductors of the Underground Railroad were A picture of the well-known Underground Railroad conductor, Harriet Tubman (Harriet 1). popular among the slaves, and Harriet Tubman is considered the most…

intent of using it in the development of a fictional narrative, opening the door for the use of a variety of literary devices that would be inoperative otherwise. The genre of historical fiction, as displayed in Colson Whitehead’s novel, “The Underground Railroad”, stresses interpretation of history through fictional humanization and other literary devices, which creates a catalyst for emotional appeal in the reader—an appeal…

In the award winning novel Chains, the author, Laurie Halse Anderson, presents an historical Revolutionary War novel where a young slave girl must escape to freedom to save her sister, Ruth. This takes her on a perilous journey through eighteenth century America towards freedom, where the only way out is perseverance and courage. Through scenes in the book, Anderson implies that to improve your situation and work towards a cause risks must be taken. This idea is shown in the scenes when she…

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a novel that was written as a call to action to its readers against slavery in the United States. Through many characters, mainly Tom, Stowe illustrates the heart-breaking realities of slavery to her readers. One instrumental way that Stowe did this was through the rhetorical device of antithesis. Two characters who embody Stowe’s use of antithesis are Tom Loker and Mr. Haley. Haley is described as a “short, thickset man” (3) and Loker as having a…

Have you ever heard of the name Harriet Tubman, Harriet Tubman had many character traits some of them are independent, brave, and determined. Harriet Tubman’s character traits played a role in her deciden to escape from slavery. She lead 300 more slaves to freedom. When she was leading the slaves she had to go through woods quietly without getting caught. Harriet Tubman was independent, because she went north to south to free slaves on her plantation she would work on. She had to do that…

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…