Derrick Williams Prof. Sackley History 199 9/30/2011 “For my own part, I felt indifferent to my fate. It appeared to me that the worst had come (the separation of him and his family), that could come, and that no change of fortune could harm me.” Charles Ball was born into slavery. He encountered the same punishment and had to live the same hard and cruel life similar to any other slave. However, Balls story differs due to his never ending ambition to be active in his attempts to expose, change, and better the lives of slaves. As a young man, Ball was sold and separated from his wife and children to a slave trader.
The black box represents tradition. “Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new black box but no one like to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box” (Jackson2). This quote represents the significance of tradition, which is what the box represents. Mr. Summers was in charge of the lottery, he held the power in town for as long as he holds the black box.
Years of frustration is what caused the eventual succession. Since the American Revolution, the topic of slavery was present in the minds of important men in both northern and southern states. The institution of slavery was allowed to continue in the United States, but it was when the Union started to expand that much of the frustration began. The government had passed regulations banning the spread of slavery into these new territories, and many southern states were outraged to the point where South Carolina threatened to succeed from the Union in 1821. Southern states believed that their way of life was being infringed, meaning that slavery was an important institution for their mainly agricultural based economy.
Benjamin Banneker Rhetorical Analysis In his sentimental, yet candid letter, Banneker reminds the reader of their past with the British Crown and his oppression in order to relate the reader to the struggles faced by a hopeless slave. In lines 1-25, Banneker makes strong use of past experiences faced by colonists in order to connect his reader to slavery. Banneker starts off with reminding the reader of when, “the British Crown exerted every powerful effort in order to reduce you to a state of servitude.” The use of this concrete detail leads the reader to remember a time when they suffered a form of slavery in order to help the reader understand the struggles faced by slaves. The reader is then brought to remember when, “every human aid appeared unavailable.” Although this may be a hyperbole, it is successful in emotionally attaching the reader to the hardships of slavery. The hyperbole doesn’t come off as over- dramatization, but rather shows the negative significance of slavery.
“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong” (Abraham Lincoln). Lincoln is depicting that if a crisis such as slavery is recognized as just, then what is unjust. The slave, Frederick Douglass, in the book The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, talks about how the dehumanization of slavery which broke the slaves both mentally and physically. The acts of slavery shows how black people are regarded as inferior.
Her hatred toward slavery led her to writing the book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This book depicted slavery’s cruelty, inhumanity and the impact that it has on the families lives. The characters in this book portrayed the life of real slaves and the struggles they went through. Poor old Uncle Tom was beat until he died. This was something that happen to many slaves when they were being punished and it may have been just because they were working to slow.
The cruelty and brutality of slave life is common knowledge of most Americans, even in the 1850’s. However, Fitzhugh didn’t get that memo. His article is almost comedic in how inaccurately it depicts slavery. For example his first line of the article is, “The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and in some sense, the freest people in the world.” As racist, and inaccurate as it is, the paper provides a creepy insight to the way that the people of the South, justified slavery. Fitzhugh’s view on slavery is quite opposite that of Olmsted.
This is apparent in his dealings with Jim, the Wilks, and even with the duke and king. His function in the story is as the narrator. “... people will call me a low down abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum...” Jim - Jim is a middle aged slave own by Widow Douglass who ran away near the beginning of the book. He is fatherly, protective, and unselfish. His clothes are tattered and his appearance is not very good since he is a runaway slave without many clothes.
His courage translated into a change in humanity’s prejudice toward another fellow man. The frankness of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave had served its purpose in illustrating the cruel discrimination of slaves and also initiating a controversial movement that we ensure today. Douglass portrays a classical hero as he converts from a low class slave into a man who challenged an entire nation. He stood as a man with absolutely nothing to lose. It goes to show the capability of one’s voice and action.
Slavery was so victimized that it still affects the society to the extent that black people blame the whites , and white people still agree that black people need to be slaves. Until this day there is some sort of prejudice and rivalry due to different