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    Slavery was a harsh and terrible way of life for all slaves. However there were differences in class among slaves. Lower class slaves were “field slaves”. Upper class slaves were “house slaves”. The daily routines of these slaves differed greatly. Field slaves sole purpose was production. Their duties were raising‚ planting and cultivation of crops‚ clearing land‚ burning underbrush‚ rolling logs‚ splitting rails‚ carrying water‚ mending fences‚ spreading fertilizer‚ and breaking soil. Working from

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    Life of a Slave

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    little nutrition‚ while being whipped and beaten all throughout the day‚ this was the everyday life of a slave. Slaves lived in usually harsh environments and were treated poorly by their masters and the plantation owners‚ causing a slave’s life span to be shorter than of the white people. Frederick Douglass was born around 1818 and this book is his narrative of his life as a slave and a portion of his life after he was declared a free man. Primary sources provide a great insight to the happenings

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    Respect and compassion were the most important guiding principles for Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of America‚ and he also was a printer and an inventor. He has struggled throughout his whole life as mentioned in his autobiography‚ but he was also knowledgeable with respect and compassion‚ which made him a man that he was in the past. Ben Franklin grew up in Boston with the characteristic of respect. Respect is very important at any place and at any time‚

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    Assignment 1 Walter Benjamin in context to ‘The Girandola’ by Joseph Wright In this essay I will be applying Benjamin’s essay ‘Art in the age of mechanical reproduction’ to examin the erosion of aura around an artwork‚ aura can be defined from colours within the painting right down to the smell that surrounds the painting. The artwork that I will be focusing on will be ‘The Girandola’ that was created by Joseph Wright (of Derby) in 1734-1797. This comparison will be done by using my experience of

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    Dehumanizing Slaves

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    Frederick Douglass The Narrative of Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave‚ Written by Himself Every human being should be given the right to an education‚ love and the pursuit of happiness. A slave is a human. Therefore‚ the pilfering of a human’s right through the force of human cruelty is an act of dehumanization for the purpose of ownership and free labor. The act of dehumanizing a slave is a slave master’s desire. A slave master needs control over the mind of the enslaved in order to gain

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    Sons of Liberty

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    to put others first. He/she listens to the views of others and thinks about what they have to say. He/she helps people who are not in a position to help them. In my opinion the sons of liberty were good citizens because they fought for what was right. The sons of liberty were an underground resistance organization‚ that was made up of men and women (known as the daughters of liberty) from the New England colonies that protested the acts that the British government put on them. Some out front members

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    Benjamin Mays Benjamin Elijah Mays was a distinguished African American minister‚ educator‚ scholar‚ and social activist. Mays was born on August 1st‚ 1894 in a rural area outside Ninety-Six‚ South Carolina. He was the youngest of eight children born to the tenant farmers and former slaves‚ Louvenia Carter and Hezekiah Mays. An ongoing occurrence in Mays’s boyhood and early adulthood was his dedication for education against overwhelming odds. As Mays’s grew older‚ and after stumbling quite a bit

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    A Slave No More

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    A SLAVE NO MORE For my final project I chose to do a review of the book “A Slave No More” written by David W. Blight. In his book‚ Blight tells the story about two men‚ John M. Washington and Wallace Turnage and their escape from slavery during The Civil War. Blight provides us with copies of the narratives of both men. In my review I will break down Blights book regarding the stories of John M. Washington and Wallace Turnage. In my paper I will share a critique of the book and give my opinion

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    Slave Acculturation

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    Slave Acculturation The seasoning process‚ as applied to the treatment of plantation slaveswas designed to ensure not only that the slaves would become totally dependent upon the dictates of their owners but also to destroy the cultural links which the slaves had with their former homelands. In the West African kingdoms which provided one of the major source of slaves at the height of the triangle trade‚ slavery was part of the indigenous culture; however‚ the motivation

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    Thomas Nichols Wendell Berry’s “Mad Farmer liberation Front” makes a strong argument for the simple life‚ preservation of nature‚ and individualism. Wendell Berry clearly states how Americans and people should live their lives. Berry’s points are valid and to the point; he believes that an independent person is a strong person. This very argument is ageless; used by people throughout time. One could say Wendell Berry is somewhat of a modern day Thomas Jefferson seeing how they share similar ideas

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