As a young man, Ball was sold and separated from his wife and children to a slave trader. After this, he describes his journey through personal accounts in an autobiography called, Narrative of the Life and Adventure of Charles Ball. He explains several situations that occurred as he was sold from one place to another. At one point he managed to escape but was later on recaptured and placed into slavery again. His story is atypical because unlike others he managed to keep his composure.
“Son-I come from five generations of people who was slaves and sharecroppers- but ain’t nobody pay ‘em no money that was a way of telling us we wasn’t fit to walk this earth. We ain’t never been that poor.” (Hansberry, 96) In the previous passage, Walter had upset Mama because he wanted to be bribed to move out of an entirely white neighborhood, however, Lena watched her family experience discrimination and now, post
His mothers parental monitoring was too much, she never let Ed do anything and always kept him hidden. The influence of his brother putting down there mother, who Ed worshipped was another factor in his downfall. Skinner’s Theory of Behavior: Gein never received any positive reinforcement Antisocial personality disorder (APD): This is a disorder Ed had because he failed to conform to the norms of society. Holmes and De Burger (1998): Have a theory that serial killers fall into 4 groups; Eddie falls into the hedonistic type because he strived for pleasure in playing with the bodies of his victims. Coercion Developmental Theory: Gerald Patterson (1982, 1986) states that parenting monitoring can cause early onset delinquency.
Hopper was sympathetic to blacks because he remembers a specific instant that changed him forever. His family had a farm helper named Mingo, who cried to Hopper explaining his story, in tears, about how he was kidnapped from slave traders. This was the reason why Hopper wanted to help blacks so much. Once in Philadelphia Hopper learned two lessons,
Harriet Jacobs for instance used the thought of someday freeing her children to drive her throughout the book and decide on what is best for them as a whole, maybe not immediately but eventually. She views slavery as worse than death, thus she feels disgusted that she brought her children into the world of slavery, “It seemed to me I would rather see them killed then have them given up to his power.” (Jacob’s 68) Frederick Douglass on the other spectrum of slavery was a man who had no children, and never had to suffer the physiological abuse of rape, and sexual harassment, but this did not make his slavery or his journey to freedom any easier. But it seems as though the small tastes of freedom he had experienced in Baltimore were the driving motives for Frederick Douglass. He always had a desire for more, “The fact that he gave me any part of my wages was proof, to my mind, that he believed me be entitled to the whole of them. I always felt worse for having received anything; for I feared that the giving me a few cents would ease his conscience, and make him feel himself to be a pretty honorable sort of robber” (Douglass 108) It is this ongoing understanding by both characters that they are unique and deserve much more, as in Frederick Douglass’ case these samples of freedom he was given were not taken as a sign of improvement but instead a reminder that he was a man and deserved
He wanted to proof to his woman that he can do something heroic. He never considered my wife and family. He wanted me to live them in slavery and go alone to freedom. He thought because I am a slave of his father I have no love, emotions and brains. He had allowed me to go to freedom, but I had to do something heroic for my wife, just like he did to
EQUIANO DISREGARDS HIS PAST Olaudah Equiano’s, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings, portrays the life of a little boy who is enslaved early in life until the time when he is capable to buy his own freedom from his masters. Many critics who have read his biography have said that he detaches himself from his own people; he betrays other Africans by condoning slavery. Equiano’s life was lived in slavery, serving others, taking orders, being beaten and not having the life of a “free” man. He talks about the life of an enslaved man, the various experiences, tragedies, hangings, beatings, and cruelties. Although, when Equiano is awarded his freedom, he acts as if he never lived an enslaved life.
He is given to Lucretia Auld where he is then again sent back to Baltimore. Upon the death of Lucretia, Frederick is taken by Thomas Auld and is sent back. It is at this point in his life when Frederick begins entertaining the idea of escape. Once again, back to his original setting, Frederick is faced with the extreme hardships of slavery. Here, under Thomas Auld, he is fed little and experiences a different type of slaveholder.
So his master rents him out to Mr. Covey, a farmer with a reputation as a "slave-breaker." Covey works to beat Douglass into submission, and for the first six months it works. Douglass is too exhausted to think and too beaten physically to complain or fight back. He reaches the depths of despair when he looks out onto the Chesapeake Bay and sees the white sails of ships sailing free.
A document written by Olaudah Equiano, a victim of the slave trade, describes his experience in detail. He writes of his first encounter with slave traders, who ripped him out of his home at eleven and separated him from his sister, then was sold time and time again. He eventually ended up on the west coast of Africa, and was shipped to the Americas. This is only one of man tragic stories of people’s experience during the Atlantic slave trade. After reading this account, it is easy to blame the people who ripped the child from his home, but these people valued their business, and they wanted to make their