Bryan Calderon 4/9/2012 Wrt 310 Response Paper Frederick Douglass vs. Martin Luther King Jr Frederick Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement which he fought to the end of slavery within the United States in the decades prior the Civil War. He was a brilliant speaker that was able to hold the full attention of his audiences with his charisma and past horrible experiences as a slave. He won world fame when his autobiography “The Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave” -F. Douglass 1845. Frederick Douglass suffered first-hand how brutal and vicious slave owners treated their property. The slave dealers and owners would dehumanize the slaves to the point that they had no say so in their lives or any freedom what so ever.
His refusal to give up and even die for the sake of this “holy cause” is very moving and brought people to oppose slavery. “All men are created equal” as stated in the Declaration of Independence was not entirely true and Garrison stood by that and the truths of divine revelation (Document E). Another important piece of literature that brought attention to life as a slave was a narrative from a slave himself, Frederick Douglass. Douglass was a former slave who fought with a white man who oversaw him. This specific fight made Douglass very eager for freedom.
They had they Master-Slave Relationships which is the relationships of the slave owners and their slaves had, the ways in which the owners treated slaves served ultimately to allow them to keep their slaves submissive, cooperative, and fearful to them that is why most of the were afraid of industrialization and urbanization because they were afraid that the slaves would run away. Some women were rape by the masters was used as a way in which to humiliate both the men and women, serving to belittle the women while leaving the men powerless to protect their women. When describing her experience, one former slave commented on the intense and relentless work schedule that the slaves kept and also there were different type of slave mention in the film. Slaves were often forced to work from sun up to sun down, oftentimes even beyond
a) Humiliation was a key aspect of many slave owners’ tactics. It was used to keep the slaves in line, reminding them that they had no power. b) Rape of the slave women by the masters was used as a way in which to humiliate both the men and women, serving to belittle the women while leaving the men powerless to protect their women. ii. When describing her experience, one former slave commented on the intense and relentless work schedule that the slaves kept.
There’s no Success without efforts. Success always wants some efforts and commitment. Rosa parker ignited a fire which burned all injustice imposed by the Whites on Blacks. Atlast all the hard work of Black Community gave them the rights they always deserved. They were treated inhumanely before but their struggle changed society and forced them to respect Blacks as well.
Devan Dickerson Afrikan Diaspora 11/4/2011 Sankofa: The Damage That Has Been Done Black people in this nation are, and have been for some time, in the midst of an identity crisis. They are torn between what they are taught in a white run society and the Afrikan ancestry they know nothing about. Sankofa is an illustration of where this identity crisis began. It is the story of a black model, Mona, who is sent to the past in the form of a house slave named Shola. The things Mona sees are not all that different from what the average black person sees in America today.
To conclude, the Middle Passage is clearly the roots of the slavery that occurred in the United States. Learning about the Middle Passage, gives us a better understanding of the long journey that the slaves endured. How being treated as cargo made them less superior and the torture and living conditions were unimaginable. Hopefully we can end the road, which racism has paved in this country. But more importantly, that no other human being should ever have to go through what the African slaves
Other slave owners were extreme when it came to the abuse they gave their slaves. The slaves could be burtally beaten or whipped when it came to doing the slightest thing wrong. From my understanding it wouldn't take much more that a wrong look from a slave to a slave owner to be brutally punished. Both men and women slaves were equal, in the meaning that neither one had any more power than the other when it came to slavery. Husband's could not protect their wives or children from any kind of
Cultural Studies: African American history: Rosa Parks For many centuries the African American people had been forced to suffer barbaric suffering and gross inhumanities by the hands of their white leaders based on the colour of their skin. Many were brought to America as slaves and forced to work on plantations under terrible conditions. The punishments for resisting this treatment would involve brutal whippings and many times this behaviour would result in death. Few African Americans spoke up against this treatment especially in the 19th century as they had no rights at all and were consider inferior beings. However some men and women did stand up against this treatment and fought for their civil rights and for this they are preserved in history for their bravery.
Black women were exploited and they could not refuse any advance, so they were never given the right to consent which also plays into the argument that sexuality and gender as a whole were not applicable to the enslaved community. Black people have been attempting ever since the end of slavery to reclaim the humanity, gender, sexuality, etc. that was stripped from them. In Outer Worlds by Zakiyyah Jackson, she states, “Movement beyond the human’ may very well entail a shift of view away from ‘the human’s’ direction; however, accomplishing this effort will require an anamorphic view of humanity, a queering of perspective and stance that mutates the racialized terms of Man’s praxis of humanism, if it is to be a movement at all,” which explains that the act of white humanity moving forward from the inhumanity of slavery and oppression (moving “beyond the human”) is possible (Jackson, Outer Worlds: 217). However, in order to do so people will have to question the state of inhumanity in which Blackness has been left so that black people can move forward with humanity