... the American culture was suddenly taken away by your new countrymen and leaving you abandoned. The nation that you believed stood for freedom and liberty, suddenly prison you down by chains of prejudice and laws of discrimination, just because your origin was different compare to your new countrymen. In our precious American history there has been discrimination against the immigrants ... public, such as opium consumption and Chinese coolies. These types of writings provided important information about the daily lives of the Chinese to the whites. Since the major audience of a newspaper...

• Word Count: 1793
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... realized that the freedom that they so painstakingly fought for has only been attained by a privileged few, that freedom was nothing but a speech made by masters who broke off their chains but not the ridicule and shame that comes with it; that even with them freed from their contracts, they are as bound to it, still, as though they have never ... I was pushed forward at a dizzy pace. My name spread like smoke in an airless room. I was kept moving all over the place. Speeches here, there, everywhere, uptown and down. I wrote newspaper articles, led parades and relief delegations, and so...

• Word Count: 1723
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• Grade Level: High School

... - to refuse to buy anything made or grown by slave labor. Abolitionism was becoming more than a political campaign, it was a religious crusade. Elijah Lovejoy, a white abolitionist, published an anti-slavery newspaper in Illinois. Angry mobs demolished three of his printing presses, and in 1837, as he tried to protect a fourth press, Lovejoy was killed. Then later on the second Fugitive Slave ... Act in 1850 was passed and it made things even worse, for now respected black citizens- craftsman, publishers, business owners- could be taken from their homes and sent in chains back to the cot...

• Word Count: 1826
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• Grade Level: High School