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  • Celie As Many Slaves
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    In Alice Walker's The Color Purple, the format of Celie's narratives show great similarities with the slave narratives that were collected in the 1930's. Celie shows in the way the slaves talked about their situation. They were very timid about raising their voices. Celie, as many slaves were, did not express their true emotions because of the fear that they would be punished severely. Celie is a poor, Southern black girl. Celie is one of the most oppressed, silenced members of society. Her step...
  • Free And Slave African American's Lives
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    Women of the Nineteenth Century During the early nineteenth century, women were subjected to stereotypes that limited what their gender was thought to be capable of. No woman was able to escape the inferior label. The level of so-called inferiority differed between races. African American and Native American women surprisingly held much importance and responsibility in caring for the family and the community, whether it was a plantation or tribe. From hard labor to excelling at certain jobs that...
  • True Point Of View From The Slaves
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    January 29, 2001 HIS 2112 Dr. Harris A View From the Bottom Rail The View From the Bottom Rail is a document dealing with the ways in which historians have tried to recover the newly freed slaves' feelings and point of view after the Civil War. In almost every way, it is impossible to determine what the slaves really thought and felt about slavery and their masters because of the lack of proper evidence. With the evidence presented, readers are left to decide for themselves the feelings that the...
  • Documenting The American South
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    Documenting the American South Documenting the American South is a collection of resources documenting the American South during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Complete with first hand narratives and detailed accounts of the era, Documenting the American South (DAS) is a fact filled, informative website. DAS is clearly organized into five separate projects, which makes finding all information fast and effortless. This website provides an educational resource for thorough records of the Amer...
  • British In The American Revolution
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    The Role of African Americans in the Revolutionary War An estimated 100,000 African Americans escaped, died or were killed during the American Revolution (Mount). Roughly 95% of African Americans in the United States were slaves, and because of their status, the use of them during the revolution was inevitable (Mount). This led many Americans, especially those from the North, to believe that the South's economy would collapse without slavery due to the use of slaves on the front lines. However, ...
  • Americans In The Revolution
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    As we study American history we see that the saying, 'History repeats itself'; reveals much truth. As we look closer to the American Revolution and the American Civil War, we can find many similarities between the two. Another saying that is made known is that 'We learn from our mistakes,' ; but even the greatest men and women of our history did not follow. The main causes for both wars were the fight for liberty. If we are to analyze this issue in both wars, we see that the conclusion of one wa...
  • 156 Negro Slaves In The Southern Colonies
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    From the early 17th century to the mid 1860's, African Americans where sold and used as slaves. They were brought over by boat looking for a better life style and more respect. Instead they were sold at auctions to white English men. These men owned their own farm and worked slaves in their fields cutting Sugar Cane and growing Tobacco, Coffee and Cotton. While working in the fields they all grew close to one another, fell in love and later got married and had children. They also had a lot of po...
  • Time Slavery
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    A Look Back on the Great Depression of 1936 The Great Depression was a time of tremendous poverty and deprivation. It put many hard-working men and women out of their jobs and sources of income. It left many wholesome, decent, families out on the street, homeless; their pride and dignity stripped of them. Many people would be left to starve, without money to buy food or pay for shelter. Some people even turned against their own friends so that they could support their families. Many became obliv...

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