The Horrors of a Slave ship Nigerian kidnappers were the cause of many children missing as their parents left them home alone during the day to work in the fields. Kidnappers often took advantage of this time to take kids against their will and sell them to slave traders, thus becoming a slave at a very young age. Occasionally they would be caught in the act and dealt with however the grownups chose to do but not in Olaudah’s case. One day Olaudah Equiano, merely 11 years old, was left home alone with his younger sister while his parents were off at work and a group of people broke into their home with means of kidnapping them. The kidnappers succeeded in their plans and ran off into the woods with Olaudah and his sister leaving no trace for their parents to find them.
You could tell Lily was afraid of her father, seeing how she hesitated to tell him about events such as her birthday. Lily was also born and raised in rags, since her mother died when Lily was at a young age. After her mother died, Lily was stranded with a confused and angry father, and had to sew her own clothes, since it is all she had. These two stories already look the same, and both are only a fraction of the way in. Huck’s life was extremely terrible until he starting living with the Widow Douglas, which is the equivalent of when Lily went to live with the Boatwright sisters.
Imagine if the cotton businesses had no slaves the Southerners would have to create their own factories, for example, if they did have to create their own industry, they would have to sell all their slaves and that’s one of the last things that they wanted to do. If the South had no slaves, they would have to do everything all by themselves. According to page 242 it says " planters would have had to sell slaves to raise the money to build factories, most wealthy southerners had their wealth invested in land and slaves. Planters would have had to sell slaves to raise the money to build factories. Most wealthy southerners were unwilling to do this.
In “The Wife of His Youth” by Charles W. Chesnutt, there were many stereotypical views on race and gender in the lives of Mr. Ryder and Eliza Jane. In the nineteenth century, every man’s goal was to be successful and the “breadwinner” of the family. However, not every man had the chance to start out big, for Mr. Ryder, he started as Sam Taylor. Sam Taylor was a freeborn slave, where he worked in a plantation as an apprentice and had no source of education. Eventually, the plantation owner wanted to sell him for more money as a slave, but Sam Taylor didn’t want to live the life of a slave.
To escape the poverty of Africa, her parents entrusted her to her great aunt who brought her to Europe. Victoria was tortured to death by that great-aunt, Marie Therese Kouao, and the woman's boyfriend Carl Manning. But Victoria need not have died. Police, doctors, social workers all had contact with her while she was being abused | Carl Manning said that Kouao would strike Victoria on a daily basis with a shoe, a coat hanger and a wooden cooking spoon and would strike her on her toes with a hammer. Victoria spent much of her last days, in the winter of 1999–2000, living and sleeping in a bath in an unheated bathroom, bound hand and foot inside a bin bag, lying in her own urine and faeces.
It takes a lot of strength to leave loved ones not knowing if you will ever see them again. Samuel Cabble was a twenty-one year old private in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry who left his wife in slavery to fight for their freedom. A letter written by Samuel Cabble to his wife said “i look forward to a brighter day When i shall have the opertunity of seeing you in the full enjoyment of fredom i would like to no if you are still in slavery if you are it will not be long before we shall have crushed the system that now opreses you for in the course of three months you shall have your liberty.” This excerpt shows that Samuel was fighting with all he had to return to his wife and save her from slavery. He felt that it was his duty to protect his wife at all costs and this meant going to war at twenty one after leaving slavery. This is the perfect example of surviving on inner strength because Samuel returned to his wife after the war and together they moved to Denver.
Uncle Tom was not like any other slave. He had a unique life style that very few slaves got the opportunity to enjoy. He was treated well by Mr. Shelby and had the privilege of living with his wife and children, “in a pretty little cabin” (Stowe 3). However, Mr. Shelby had to pay off his debt, and in order to do that he split up the family by selling Uncle Tom to Mr. Haley. This took a major toll on Aunt Chloe.
Finally, the late Julia Hetman tells her story through Medium Bayrolles. She laid alone in bed when she first heard the foot steps up the stairs. What she called a Thing came and left her room. Shortly after, Julia heard more foot steps, and she thought that the Thing had returned. Then her life ended as she knew it.
The book the Good Earth, written by Pearl S. Buck was made in the twentieth century and is about Wang lung a poor farmer trying to survive on the good earth. Wang lung has one dream and that is to prosper and live as a rich man but many things come to destroy the one thing he loves. Wang lung has a family to feed cloth and help prosper but all of that can be gone once there is a horrible famine that struck china forcing Wang lung and his family to pack up all their belongings and leave the one place they know and love. Now Wang lung has to rely on his family to help him survive in the south but how can you have so much hope when you’re starving, poor and tired how long can you survive without the good earth. When his family was very poor it affected their lives in many ways.
One day while her father taught her about the value of the land, a storm came and destroyed the land, and her family lost everything. After losing everything, later that year my mom lost both of her parents. After having basically nothing, at the age of 38 that’s when she decided to leave Colombia, where we all were borned. The place where all our family was and the place where she almost lost everything. But she did it to help us, to show us that we can't never give up, that whatever might get in our way, it’s going to be a lesson to be learned, and that at the end of the day we're going to have to think about it and then just walk away and move on.