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How does Fredrick Douglass answer the question: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Douglass has a very long answer to this question. On page 13-14 it says, “What to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.” He goes on to say how it is a sham. Whites are all up and love it and the blacks just get reminded how they are not independent no matter how

Slave-Driven Civil War The American Civil War, it is a defining tragedy in our nation’s journey to its present state. The story of the Civil War has been said on many occasions to be a the American version of the Illiad, a horrible struggle of blood and guts that ultimately set the stage for a country that grew to be a world power. Nobody who wishes to comprehend the American history, even the America of today, can ignore the events of America’s Civil War. Following Abraham’s Lincoln’s election

During the Era of the Slave Codes, we realize that most of the laws set in place have been established by an overwhelming sense of fear or danger, in relation to how specific people look and behave. The rules that were set in place to prevent slave rebellions and other racial problems in the colonies was known as the “Slave Codes.” The slave codes reflect the growing ethnic order and development of fear of slave communities by creating a division of humanity based on skin color, which enforced through

the Atlantic Basin changed in that the transatlantic slave trade declined, yet the balance of trade continued to favor European nations. Although the transatlantic slave trade stayed strong for many years, it started to decline as the cost of using slave labor began to outweigh the possible advantages. During the 1600s, the Atlantic slave trade transformed from a small enterprise to a bustling field of opportunity. Over twenty thousand slaves were being exported from Africa per year. That number

Frederick Douglass was an African-American slave when he was born but escaped when he was 20 years old. Douglass wrote three autobiographies, one of them is a very famous piece, and he is known for his anti-slavery actives. He has offered a lot to the world and has first hand experience with slavery, which helped his movement to end slavery. Let’s start to what happened first, his slavery life. Frederick Douglass (Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) was a slave for 20 years, born into slavery and

The Americans slaves were similar and different to the concept of the Roman slaves. They are similar because both the Roman and Americans slaves are brought/bidding wars, the slaves could be executed, people could be born in slavery because of their parents, slaves could be physically abused, and the slaves worked in dangerous environment. They are different because the Americans slaves depends on the race of the person, while the Romans depends on who ever they conquered. The Americans couldn’t

The Atlantic Slave Trade attempts to dehumanize enslaved Africans in numerous ways. First of all, from the sketch of a slave ship in the Middle Passage, it reveals that each slave has very limited space on the ship. Therefore, due to the harsh living condition on the ship, many slaves died in the Middle Passage. In addition, slaves were used as possessions, sold in market, “poked and prodded by strange white people” (Berlin 4). This intends to show “plantation owners’ wealth and power” (Berlin 2)

by another person, seems unintelligible. Until 1865 however, freedom was an idea that many African Americans only dreamed of. Throughout early American Literature freedom and the yearning to be free has been written and spoken about by many. Insight into how an African-American slave views freedom and what sparks their need to receive it can be found in any of the “Slave Narratives” of early American literature, from Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustav

Logan Sewell Peyser, Thomas. "The Attack on Christianity in NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE." The Explicator 69.2: 86-89. In Peyser’s article, “The Attack on Christianity in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,” he argues that “Douglass seems to believe that slavery is not a perversion of Christian doctrine but rather its perfect embodiment.” In the Narrative, Douglass desires to influence his audience beliefs that he is not against all

Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. This book not only showed people what life was truly like in the eyes of a slave, but it became instrumental in propelling the abolitionist movement and helping it gain motion all across the country. Douglass was truly a revolutionary person because throughout the duration of slavery, African American people were not permitted to be educated. This was considered dangerous. It wasn’t until Frederick Douglass was moved to Boston, where slaves were treated more like