"Enduring Understandings" Before reading the memoir "Night," by Elie Wiesel, I had never heard of the word Genocide. ... I also learned in "Night" that genocide is associated with hatred which is something I will always remember. "Night" was about the holocaust during World War II against Jews. ... "Night" put this aspect into a more personal view which made it harder to forget. ... Just like "Night," a minority group was hated. ...

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By night, the sun's absence provided slaves with an opportunity to express their personal independence; an opportunity seldom available under a master's supervision. ... Once it was night, the master would fall asleep. ... Only by night. ... Only at night were these slaves permitted to cultivate and sell their crops to the local town. ... Former slave Nan Stewart recalls how her and the other slaves on the plantation were only allowed to work on their personal patch at night after the days labor, "Sometimes massa let niggers have a li'l patchThe niggers had to work the patc...

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Night John was walking alone in front of the horse that Waller was riding. ... The first night John taught Sarny the letter A. ... He ran away in the middle of the night. ... That same night John taught Sarny the letter B. That was also the night that Mammy caught John teaching Sarny. ...

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For example, the cycle of day and night had a big impact on the lives of slaves. Autonomy felt stronger during the night, and culture was allowed to develop during the nighttime. ... The natural cycle of day and night showed how slave life was made a bit better because of the fact that they were free to interact within themselves during the night. ... Of course, slavery was still unethical, but it creates room for a debate with a side that says that a lot of positive culture and family relations were created due to slavery and the natural cycle of day and night. ...

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That night the men crept up on Jessie and through a sack over his head and kidnaped him. ... They were sailing in the tiny boat that night for a while until Jessie spotted a ship with the words "The Moonlight" painted on the side of the ship. ... The rest of the crew were uptight, work was what was on their minds, they would end every night on the ship with a bottle of rum and Jessie's fiddle play. ... A stormy night came upon the Moonlight. The shipped tossed and turned the entire night. ...

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The term underground was coined because of the secrete nature of the operation which was aided by the fact that the travels usually took place at night. ... Fugatives were constantly on the move to the next station; however important, increasing the chances of capture by a by-stander who happened to be curious by a number of Negroes running at night even when excorted by whites. ... Who would regard a candle of quilt as posing a treat and how could you diffrensiate from the houses that were simply doing their lundery and illuminating the night and those where the objects actually meant someth...

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Douglass's only memory of his mother, who died when he was seven, was a memory of her walking twelve miles to tuck him in at night. ... One day, after a severe beating by Covey, (Douglass 86) Douglass ran for refuge for one night from a slave named Sandy Jenkins. ... Douglass remembered his mother tucking him in at night and used that memory to define his new family with his wife. ...

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They were treated poorly just like a slave would be treated scrounging for food and huddling together to keep warm at night. ... He immediately asked directions to New York City, and that night he took another train north. ...

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A day primarily consisted of a long period of hard labor, an inadequate meal and a very short night of sleep. ... It was that of his Aunt Hester who had disobeyed her master's order to not leave the farm at night. ...

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Harriet finally had enough in june 1853 in the middle of the night she finally had gotten away from james. ... From here comfortable home with her family to living in a crawl space for 7 years and only exercising at night. ...

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"She was with me in the night never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her smoothing presence, her tender and watchful care"(2). ... -Samuel Harrison to live with him one year; and him used to fasten up with her every night!"...

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This piece is about slaves, even well-treated ones, are not safe as long as humans can be bought and sold to anyone who can afford it. Because the story is broken up into certain chapters to be read, I found it slightly difficult in understanding what was happening in the story. A core ide...

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One night Huck goes off with Tom Sawyer so they can have a meeting for their group of friends. ... One night Pap gets so drunk that he attempts to kill Huck, by doing this he scares Huck so much that he sits up all night aiming a rifle at Pap. ...

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There were rows upon rows of shacks, with no heat, for the slaves to sleep in at night. ... So one night, when the house turned silent, I snuck in and retrieved some medications that would save the poor boys life. ... My plan was to take some of Masters" money from the jar in his room, put on some warmer clothes from the laundry I did, sneak in the night to the woods, and climb the mountains to where nobody could find me. ...

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Frederick Douglass, originally known as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was one of the most influential African Americans of the nineteenth century Fueled by the brutal mistreatment as a slave, he could no longer take the abuse and fought back against the cruel mistreatment (Notable Blac...

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Human Rights issue # 1- Child Soldiers Child Soldiers are mostly recruited in Africa but it has been used in Iraq & Iran. Child soldiers are children often under the age of 15 that are forced to go to war whether they like it or not. They are theatened with death and are often forced to watch their...

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Amistad Directed by Steven Spielberg, Amistad takes place from 1839 to 1841. The appearance of the Amistad on US shores in 1839 was significant, because the Africans had been transported illegally across the Atlantic Ocean on a slave vessel called the Tecora. Two Spanish sugar plantation owners...

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The Guilty and Accused The reading of Celia, A Slave bye Melton A. McLaurin conducted for the American History three course closely relates to the information learned in the classroom. In Celia, A Slave 1 McLaurin teaches his readers about Celia, who was a slave, and her dreadful experience on Ju...

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"When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in"t, and teach me how To name the bigger light and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee, And showed thee all the qualities o"th" isle, The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place and fertile" (1.2.332-8) This is Prospero's ploy to use Caliban to learn the secrets of the island. ... Urchins Shall, for that vast of night that they may work, All exercise on thee. ...

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The runaway's on the Underground Railroad traveled by night, and used the north star for guidance. ... When bought by their new masters slaves worked in cotton fields from sunrise to late into the night. ...

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The slaves would be out working on the fields from sunrise till sunset and sometime the whole night if there was enough light out. ... Often times there were teachers who ran secret night schools for the blacks. ...

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Frederick Douglass "The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and in some sense, the freest people in the world." These are the beginning words in George Fitzhugh's Cannibal's All!, a work created to convince people that slavery is indeed a positive endeavor. Fitzhugh goes on to explain ...

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Sex slavery happens in the United States to people of all ages. Sex trafficking is the sale and purchase of human beings as property. This crime includes forced marriages, domestic violence, or other forced sexual activity. You are basically giving up your body for money. Why would somebody do that ...

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What is survival? According to the dictionary it is "living or continuing longer than another person or thing". To some people it means passing a test or winning a race or a game. But to Huck Finn it meant just getting though the day. Huck had to face many obstacles in his journeys, the three that y...

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"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew that they were slaves." Harriet Tubman was one of the most interesting characters in our nation's history because of her strong desire for freedom despite the tremendous obstacles in her life. She selflessly went on to ...

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