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- 341: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Satirical View of the Old South
- ... of the society of the old south serve as a method of conveying Mark Twain's opinion of society. In his dandy riverboat adventure The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain attacks the traditions of slavery, racism, and the accepted traditions of the old south. He helped expose the hypocrisies of the southern society through this novel. Twain stands firmly by his principles. He is a firm believer that slavery is sinister. It was a wretched institution that was necessary to be eliminated. He said slavery was bad mainly because it was hypocritical. We see this hypocrisy throughout the book when Huck is able to interact with Jim and also learn from him while the southern slave society treats Jim ...
- 342: The Roles African American In
- ... and fight along side white men equally did not come easily, but eventually African Americans proved themselves able to withstand the heat of battle and fight as true American heroes. The road to freedom from slavery was a long and hard for the African Americans. In the northern states the Civil War began as a fight against the succession of the Confederate states from the Union. Abraham Lincoln, who was President ... the Constitution and slaves as property had to be got around (Fincher). President Lincoln was being bombarded with pressure to let free African Americans fight in the war. At the same time, pressure to abolish slavery was put on the President. Finally, in the summer of 1862, with the realization that the war would not be won without the end of slavery, Lincoln drew up the Emancipation Proclamation (Fincher). This document freed slaves in all areas who rebelled against the Union. This began a rippling effect to many other aspects of the war and led to ...
- 343: Frederick Douglass
- ... the fields. As a young child he would wonder why he was a slave, and why everyone can't be equal. His thoughts frequently came back to him, leaving him with a great hatred for slavery. In 1836, Frederick had finally had enough of his imprisonment, and attempted an escape with many other slaves. The escape was not successful, Frederick and the other slaves were sent to work in a shipyard ... disguised as a sailor, Frederick Douglass made his escape to New Bedford, Massachusetts. Upon his arrival, Frederick took up his new assumed last name Douglass, to escape being captured. In 1841, Frederick attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket Massachusetts. Here, his impromptu speech he gave showed him to be a great speaker. The opponents of Frederick believed that he was never a slave, because of his great speaking skills and ... though, he had used the name of his old master on the slave plantation. Upon learning of this, his old master sent slave catchers to New England to bring him back. Fearing a life of slavery again, Frederick fled to England. Here in England, he gave many lectures on the abolitionists movement, and earned sufficient funds to buy his freedom in America. In 1847, Frederick became the "station master" of ...
- 344: The Orgin Of Comedy
- ... a new religion, and a precarious new lifestyle." (Joyner, 1984) As Africans were unloaded by boat and placed onto plantations, slave masters were completely enthralled by the way they spoke, moved, and danced. Out of slavery emerged a culture that would influence America's mainstream culture for infinity. Slavery created bondage for Africans and when it looked like they were going nowhere fast; they laughed, sang, and amused one another with riddles, jokes and animal tales from the homeland. Slave masters could not conceive ... called upon to entertain master and their guests. Slave merry-making was also encouraged because it also increased the price of the slaves. "People took notice to the way slaves spoke and moved, out of slavery evolved Blackface Humor." (Watkins, 1994) Blackface comedy was when a person (white) painted their face with black makeup and acted like a slave (Sambo). Blackface humor gave whites the chance to lift African American ...
- 345: Plato versus Aristotle
- ... Plato and Aristotle, a Bill of Rights is not necessary because it does not improve the good of the community. Another point of discrepancy between the philosophers and today's society involves the topic of slavery. Aristotle argues for the naturalness of slavery in The Politics, yet slavery has been considered grotesque for quite some time. In correlation to slavery, there is the undermining of the female population by Aristotle. Although Plato is a lot less discriminatory, he also believes women are ...
- 346: Henry Thoreau
- ... made time to contribute to the family pencil-making business by inventing a graphite flotation process which made Thoreau pencils superior to those of competitors. During his travels, Thoreau also lectured on issues such as slavery. He was an effective speaker, but lacked Emerson’s skill of fully communicating with his audience. His last excursion was made to Minnesota in 1861. He left, hoping that the trip would improve his health ... antislavery movements. He believed Brown to be " A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action: a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles," Two of his famous essays, "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854) and " A Plea for John Brown" (1859), display his strong feelings about the abolitionist movement. One of his most famous works is "Civil Disobedience," (1849), and it is considered to be the most widely read of all American essays. In 1845 while living at Walden Pond, Thoreau refused to pay the poll tax. He was resisting slavery, as paying the tax to essentially gave support in Congress to southern leadership, represented by the Mexican War and by appalling laws concerning slavery. His refusal to pay the tax led to a night ...
- 347: Underground Railroad
- ... off on an underground railroad." That man was Tice Davids, a Kentucky slave who decided to live in freedom in 1831. The primary importance of the Underground Railroad was the on going fight to abolish slavery, the start of the civil war, and it was being one of our nation's first major anti-slavery movements. The history of the railroad is quite varied according to whom you are talking. Slavery in America thrived and continued to grow because there was a scarcity of labor. Cultivation of crops on plantations could be supervised while slaves used simple routines to harvest them, the low price at ...
- 348: Mark Twain: Racist or Realist?
- ... a boys view of the world without problems; it is delivered as a first-hand involvement in the novels Twain writes (Simpson 3). Mark Twain also brings out the truths about class, hypocracy, racism, and slavery by showing it through the child’s perspective. Mark Twain depicts the human soul in conflict with institutions in the book A Conecticut Yankee in King Authur’s Court through the chuch against the state ... also once said that what any man sees in the human race “is merely himself in the deep and private honesty of his own heart (Unger 190).” Twain had also brought out the views on slavery. “Pudd’nhead Wilson…is a carefully painted picture of life on a Mississippi town in the days of slavery…(Idler 1).” Many critics admire Twain’s exposures of slavery and respond to his compassion and humilty (Unger 190). Throughout the book A Connecticut Yankee in King Authur’s Court, there is an underlying ...
- 349: Huck Fin 2
- ... Jackson Island. In the second section, Huck meets Jim at the island and starts down the river when they find out that Jim is being searched for. Huck runs from civilization and Jim runs from slavery. This section ends when both Jim and Huck make it to Uncle Silas¹ farm. The third sections takes place at the farm and continues to the end of the book. Although the book divides itself ... Twain uses the book and Huck¹s character to voice his own ideas about society. For example, he denounces organized religion in the opening chapters with the raid on the Sunday school picnic. He exposes slavery and an evil and show blacks to have feelings just like others, especially in the episode where Jim tells Huck about his daughter. Twain also shows an aversion to royalty with the adventures with the ... shows a distaste for organized religion. He also shows a slight disrespect to the government during the incidents were Pap gets arrested. During the conversation with Jim and Huck, Twain also reveals his dislike of slavery. 15. Memorable quotes ³I thought it all out, and reckoned I would belong to the widow if he wanted me, though I couldn¹t make out how he was a-going to be any ...
- 350: Black History, The Piano
- ... not that far in back of us. Another way this play teaches duty toward heritage is it's assertion that you cannot escape racism by pretending it's non-existence, and that the ghosts of slavery's past will follow you unless you hold them up. This was demonstrated in the conclusion of the play when Bernice faces her denial of the piano and "realizes what she must do" and exercises ... the play are represented in Bernice, who wants to keep the piano, and Boy Willie, who wants to use the money to buy Sutters land. The symbolic significance of the piano is the pain of slavery and separation that went into its carvings. The carving are given such power that Bernice says "I used to think them pictures came alive and walked through the house"(p70). The meaning to the family ... ancestors pain. The piano represents the whole of African-American experience in history. By stealing back the piano from Sutter, the family was taking back its power and freeing themselves from the mental bondage of slavery. Doaker says it best, "it was the story of our whole family and as long as Sutter had it…he had us…we was still in slavery"(p45). At the conciliation of the play ...
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