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- 531: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- ... emotional poem about a caged bird trapped with no way to escape. "A poem like 'Sympathy'- with its repeated line, 'I know why the caged bird feels, alas!'- can be read as a cry against slavery, but was probably written out of the feeling that the poet's talent was imprisoned in the conventions of his time and the exigencies of the literary marketplace" (Revell, Paul Laurence Dunbar, 73). Dunbar's ... was a former slave, and her stories often failed to express the more brutal aspects of plantation life. Dunbar's works have often been widely criticized because of this "watering down" of the atrocities of slavery (Revell). Dunbar's poems in literary English, his short stories and novels all rely more or less on traditional forms and conventional characterization. Works Cited Baker, Houston A. Jr. "Paul Laurence Dunbar: An Evaluation." Black ...
- 532: Martin Luther King: Civil Rights Patriot
- Martin Luther King: Civil Rights Patriot Nearly three centuries ago, African slaves were brought to the New World and put into slavery. They were treated more cruelly in the United States than in any other country that had ever practiced slavery, and ever since its prohibition, African-Americans have fought oppression. Martin Luther King Jr., would aid immensely in this fight. He was born in Atlanta Georgia in 1929. His father, Martin Luther King Sr. Was ...
- 533: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- ... remove the word "obey" from my vows. I refused to obey someone with whom I was entering an equal relationship. We honeymooned in London where Henry combined business with pleasure and attended the World Anti- Slavery Convention. It was in London that I met Lucretia Mott, when both of us were banished from the convention because of our gender. We resolved the keep in touch when we returned to America, but ... This gave me greater access to the public. Again, I teamed up with Susan B. Anthony and together we headed the Loyal League and collected hundreds of thousands of petitions for a constitutional amendment ending slavery. A secondary benefit was that the league reinforced women's networks and fundraising abilities. When the war ended, I engaged in what was the biggest of my many leaps. In order to test the Constitution ...
- 534: Daniel Webster
- ... cabinet with everyone else in May of 1843. The annexation of Texas in 1845 and the war with Mexico, both which, were disliked by Webster, forced the country to face the issue of expansion of slavery. Webster opposed the expansion but feared even more the separation of the union over the dispute of the expansion of slavery. In a powerful speech on March 7, 1850, he supported the Compromise of 1850, lowering southern threats of separation but urging northern support for a stronger law for the recovery of fugitive slaves. Webster was ...
- 535: Booker T. Washington: Fighter for the Black Man
- Booker T. Washington: Fighter for the Black Man Booker T. Washington was a man beyond words. His perseverance and will to work were well known throughout the United States. He rose from slavery, delivering speech after speech expressing his views on how to uplift America's view of the Negro. He felt that knowledge was power, not just knowledge of "books", but knowledge of agricultural and industrial trades ... t do it by accusing and putting blame on others, but instead through hard work. Booker T. Washington cleared the way for the black community to fully enter the American society. Washington was born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Franklin County, Virginia, on a small tobacco plantation. His only true relative was his mother, Jane, who was the plantation's cook. His father was probably the white son of ...
- 536: Germania
- ... be as overcome by their own vices as easily as by the arms of an enemy". Also known to gamble, Germans were not beyond using their own freedom as a bargaining chip and risk voluntary slavery. As for their own slaves, they were treated more like tenants as they all had their own households to govern and were essentially only required to make payments to their master in the form of ... the Sitones: a tribe ruled by a woman. One of Tacitus's last acerbic comments in the book pertains to this tribe as he says, "so low they have fallen not merely from freedom, but slavery itself". He then signs off with the quote, "All this is unauthenticated and I shall leave it open".
- 537: Henry David Thoreau: The Great Conservationist, Visionary, and Humanist
- ... he should have to pay the tax, he had never voted, and he knew that such a purely political tax had to be affiliated with the funding of the Mexican War and the subsistence of slavery, both of which he strongly objected to (Derleth 66). The following morning Thoreau was released because someone, probably his Aunt Maria Thoreau, had paid his back taxes (68). This imprisonment compelled Thoreau to write "Civil ... and responsibility. It urged the individual to follow the dictates of conscience in any conflict between itself and civil law, and to violate unjust laws to invoke their repeal. Throughout his life, Thoreau protested against slavery by lecturing, by abetting escaped slaves in their decampment to freedom in Canada, and by outwardly defending John Brown when he made his hapless attack on Harpers Ferry in 1859 (2). Walden is conceivably Thoreau ...
- 538: Daniel Webster
- ... cabinet with everyone else in May of 1843. The annexation of Texas in 1845 and the war with Mexico, both which, were disliked by Webster, forced the country to face the issue of expansion of slavery. Webster opposed the expansion but feared even more the separation of the union over the dispute of the expansion of slavery. In a powerful speech on March 7, 1850, he supported the Compromise of 1850, lowering southern threats of separation but urging northern support for a stronger law for the recovery of fugitive slaves. Webster was ...
- 539: Desirees Baby By Kate Chopin
- "Desiree's Baby," by Kate Chopin, takes place in Louisiana during the time of slavery. The story involves Desiree, a woman of an unknown past, and her husband Armand, a man from a powerful and wealthy family. At first, they seem to be a happy and loving family, but when ... her comment, still possibly in full denial that he isn't "pure". Desiree's baby is more than just a short story, it s a commentary on life, applicable not just in the time of slavery, but in today's society. Armand forces himself to believe things how he sees them to be accurate, as when Desiree points out the darkness of his skin, he ignores her. Chopin shows that people ...
- 540: Thomas Paine
- ... recovered. With that same letter from Ben Franklin, he found many doors opened for him, including jobs tutoring many of the sons of the wealthiest men in Philadelphia. Paine started over again, by publishing African Slavery In America, in the spring of 1775, in which he criticized slavery in America as being unjust and inhumane. At about this same time, he became the co-editor for the Pennsylvania Magazine. When he arrived in Philadelphia, Paine noticed the tension, and the rebellious attitude, that ...
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