In her mind this act was done out of motherly love and protection. ... (Bloom,85) Finding out the true story behind Beloved's death allowed him to act out his true identity. ... Unwilling to surrender her children to the physical, emotional, sexual, and spiritual trauma she endured as a slave, she attempts to murder them in an act of motherly love and protection. ... However, after Sethe's act of homicide, Baby Suggs sinks into great depression and eventually dies. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Congress had no idea how to act on the subject of slavery because it is controversial for the public causing the government to just keep their silence on the subject. ... Ellis expresses, the only reason the southern states agreed to ratify the Constitution was because it promised that nothing could interfere with slavery, but the Constitution only provided temporary protect against slavery because it only guaranteed the protection until 1808. John Luarance of New York noticed that slavery was "a condition that could be tolerated in the short run precisely because there was a clear conse...

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The oppression for slaves reached its peak with the Runaway Slave Act of 1850. ... Once again, the citizens of Charlestown quickly finished work on the Negro Act that was designed to keep the large number of blacks under control. This new act no longer allowed slaves to grow their own food, assemble, earn their own money, or learn to read or write. ... The Southerners had a way to oppress these slaves also, The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made it a federal crime to aid, embed or not return any fugitive slave. ... There is more protection there for a horse or a donkey or anything rather th...

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The Fourteenth Amendment prohibited the states from limiting citizens" privileges and immunities or depriving citizens of due process or equal protection under the law. ... Yet these barriers were seemingly lifted with the passage of the Amnesty Act in 1872; which pardoned most of the remaining Confederates, and removed the previous barriers to a degree that allowed the states to regain their political strength. ... They knew that with the re-emergence of white supremacy in 1872, they needed to act fast, to prevent a completely unwarranted return to submission. ...

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They are also seriously out-of-date and date back to the British 1861 Offences Against the Person Act. Under this act, "rape is defined as the unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman without her consent by force, fear or fraud ". ... The International Humanitarian Law, which also went by the laws of war, sets out a list of protections for civilians. ... They were given the right to protection, and safety. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In 1854, the Kansas Nebraska Act helped convince the southern states to conclude that Lincoln intended to end slavery. ... He assured the southern states that slavery would remain untouched due to the protection of it. ... Although Lincoln was against the heinous act of slavery, he was dubious to the question of equality among the two races. ...

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From 1837, when Lincoln first attacked slavery as bad politics, his thoughts evolved from thinking that slavery would eventually die out by compromising that southern states could have its slaves without expanding, to 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, as it stated Congress had no right to prohibit the expansion of slavery to federal territories, and this would radicalize Lincoln's idea of a southern conspiracy that threatened the ideas of the Founding Fathers, which gave him a distinct moral conviction and tone to his political argument. ... In his famous Cooper Union speec...

• Word Count: 2007
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Freeland, he plans together with a group of fellow slaves to escape by way of fake temporary liberty protections, forged in the name of his master, William Hamilton. ... The only thing Douglass leaves out is the details of his escape; he describes all the injustices leading up to his actual escape, and then gives the act itself very brief treatment. ...

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There were many disadvantages in native and white slavery that they did not face with the Africans; native people refused work and tried to escape, as well as the supply of natives was limited and whites worked on contracts, time limits and had legal protection[Sim14]. The white servants would create conflicts between other the country that is head of production, but with they African slaves they did not protest, make a fuss or try to act independently from their designated job. ...

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(Current, pg.106) White Southerners believed that these laws were for the Negro's protection, because they forced him to fulfill agreements, to maintain a home for his family, and to seek and secure employment. ... Often an act of violence by Freedman against whites were relatively few compared to those committed by whites against Negroes. ...

• Word Count: 1876
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• Grade Level: High School

The string of low-lying swamps on the East coast provides for protection from human pursuers (Cayton 272), because the hound dogs were incapable of finding a slave in their (www.negrospirituals.com, 11/22/03), but posed very serious natural dangers (Cayton 272). ... Laws such as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which ordered all citizens of the U.S to assist in returning slaves so Canada became the safest place of freedom (Cayton, 322). Moreover, the act also stated that those who did not turn in runaways could be fined or put in jail and the slave was either shot, whipped, or sold to the deep...

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Self-protection and individual resistance were necessarily part and parcel of the female slave's definition of womanhood. Women could not rely on men for protection, and they had no recourse in any formal justice system. ...

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Washington, DuBois, and Racial Discourse As the dialogues on race wear on - and as America, as a country, continues to suffer from racial fractures that run deep indeed - the historical figures (meaning just that - the figurative modern representations) of Booker T. Washington and WEB Dubois conti...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The divergence of legislative and moral imperatives is evidenced in the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act as of 1850, under which the North was no longer a legal haven for runaways and Canada became the closest place of freedom. ... Further, it is shown that the legal power of the master amounts to an absolute despotism over body and soul, and that there is no protection for the slave's life or limb, his family relations, his conscience, nay, more, his eternal interests, but the character of the master. ...

• Word Count: 2149
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School