She later insisted that , "the Lord Himself wrote it. ... Even though she did disapprove of the theater, actors began to put on productions of a dramatized version of the book, which turned into one of the most popular American plays ever. ... On Stowe's visit to the White House, Abraham Lincoln greeted her as "the little lady who wrote the book that made this big war." ... She wrote one other book on slavery, Dred, a Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. ... This letter played an important role in possible preventing English interference when it could have endangered the Northern side. ...

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Barbara Fields wrote that the slaves did not need nor wait for anybody to help them and essentially freed themselves. ... Barbara Fields wrote that "Lincoln forced his secretary of war to delete from his report a paragraph to free and to arm slaves." and that Lincoln was " the principal opponent of slavery on moral grounds that precipitated it. " Then she says slaves enlisted in the army in order to free themselves. ... James Mcapherson also wrote about who freed slaves : "The clear answer is the war. ... He points out that Lincoln had to play the part of politician in these decisions an...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass wrote the complete story of his miserable life as a slave and his strife to obtain freedom. ... In reply, Douglass wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), which he revised in later years; in final form, it appeared in 1882 under the title Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Quarles, Benjamin, Microsoft Encarta). ... Christianity also played an important role in Frederick Douglass's life, as well as his autobiography. ... After writing Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Sla...

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• Grade Level: High School

This autobiography that he wrote led him to fame when it was published in 1845. ... He spent his childhood playing in the woods near his grandmother's cabin. ... He later wrote, "A new world had opened upon me." ...

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He later explained the role that this ignorance played in the slave system: "To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. ... In a letter to his former master, Douglass wrote, "I intend to make use of you as a weapon with which to assail the system of slavery "as a means of concentrating public attention on the system, and deepening their horror of trafficking in the souls and bodies of men- (Letter 20). ... In his letter to Thomas Auld, Douglass wrote, "You, sir, can never know my feelings. ...

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EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION The whole thing started because of the Republican Party who wanted to keep the slavery states safe and the radical republicans that wanted to free the slave states. In 1861 at fort Monroe the head person who was against slavery, Benjamin Butler, allowed the slaves tha...

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In his Narrative, he wrote the complete story of his miserable life as a slave and his strife to obtain freedom. ... After writing his narrative he wrote another biography in 1855, My Bondage And My Freedom. ... Frederick Douglass played a major role in the redefinition of American literature in the Civil War time period. ... He wrote three significant autobiographies that helped define the way literature developed during the Civil War time period. ...

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All of these men, including Chamberlain, who was a Lieutenant Colonel for the North, played important roles in early Confederate victories such as, the Battles of Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. ... In defense of his view, McCarthy wrote, "None of this is to say that [Ronald] Maxwell has made a one-sided film [it] has to emphasize one side more strongly than the other just to achieve balance" (Gods and Generals). ... In defense of the film, and its lesser emphasis on southern slavery, McCarthy wrote, "This is a failing, but a minor one, and perhaps one that cann...

• Word Count: 1373
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sadly, her mother died while Harriet was only four years old, leaving the duties of raising the large Beecher family to her older sister, Catherine, who would play a large role in Harriet's life. ... She wrote fiction for profit, but still somehow managed to find time to write moral editorials for publication without payment. ... Harriet wrote a second book, in which the hero was modeled on Nat Turner. ... She worried that Lincoln took so long to issue it, and wrote articles and letters urging Lincoln to free the slaves. ... After the ending of the Civil War, Harriet wrote another boo...

• Word Count: 1635
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She wrote the most powerful antislavery novel ever and it perhaps made her the most influential woman of her time. ... American women have played a large part in building our country. ... This was rare in that time because most authors used men as their protagonist and the women played minor roles. ... When President Lincoln first met Harriet Beecher Stowe, he reportedly called her "the little lady who wrote the book that made this big war" (McMichael 1561). ...

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Douglass was played significant role in the civil war by convincing Lincoln that the main focus of the war should be the abolishment of slavery and influenced a large amount of blacks to fight for the Union. ... His intelligence and incredible speaking abilities led people to question his former reputation as a slave, "the Liberator wrote that many people in the audience refused to believe his stories: How a man, only six years out of bondage, and who had never gone to school could speak with suck eloquence- with such precision of language and power of thought- they were utterly at loss to dev...

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Examining both narratives reveals differences in the purpose of the narratives, the similar and contrasting experiences and reactions of the two captives, how religion played a role in both experiences and the elements of literature used in the two famous works. ... Olaudah Equiano wrote to decry the evils of slavery. ... On the other hand, like most puritans of her time, Mary Rowlandson wrote to discover God's purpose in her life. ... In both Equiano and Rowlandson experiences; religion played a significant role in both accounts of their captivity. ... Both stories played a role in in...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, Mark Twain wrote the novel in 1885, when "nigger" was still rather commonplace. ... At one point in the story, Huck decides to play a mean trick on Jim in which he puts a dead snake in his bed...

• Word Count: 477
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Curry also wrote a book, "The South in the Olden Times," after the Civil War, and it was published in 1901. ... He maintained that those few who did were confronted, and downed-played such offences aligning them with spousal abuse, neglect, and oppressive employers. ...

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He uses vivid descriptions, not physically describing the men on the wharves, but of their emotions and actions, to play on the emotions of the audience. ... It is remarkable that he wrote this narrative and was never formally educated. ...

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Jones wrote about how Ohio was a free state and how its population was filled with blacks willing to fight but laws that were put in place did not allow it. ... Frederick Douglas played a vital role in the makings of the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Infantry. ... In the letter, the colored Private states that the reason he wrote the letter was to inform his sister how he and his fellow solders were doing. ...

• Word Count: 1835
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This was reality for Douglass, and for a while he played along, but as he got older his opinions began to change. ... Douglass wrote the novel with the intention of reaching out to any and all people who had an opinion concerning slavery (which was basically everyone at that time). ...

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Being religious played a major role in the life and development of Maya Angelou and Fredrick Douglass. ... Maya Angelou also cared greatly for the rights of women and she also wrote a poem called "Phenomenal Woman." ...

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An Ironic Twist The intent of the poets who wrote what we today call slave poetry is as varied as the content they address. ... Frances Ellen Watkins Harper plays on the sentimentality of the reader to expose the truths hardships of slavery. ...

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Although Faulkner wrote many novels such as Absalom Absalom and The Sound and the Fury, his intuition into the lives of people around him is clearly seen in his shorter stories. ... Faulkner usually played with different perspectives in different stories, using children narrators to describe a situation. ... Faulkner seems to capture the moment in a boy's life when he is just starting to understand the events going on around him, unlike his brother and sister who just naively play. ... This story is interesting because not only does Faulkner play with the perspectives of people very di...

• Word Count: 1764
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Although Alex Haley wrote Roots in search of his origin and Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin for a political purpose, both authors lead readers to sympathize with the predicaments of African-Americans by putting a human face, as well as a racial one on the tragedy of slavery, thus involving all readers in the inhumanity of the institution. ... The young, naked children play throughout the day by having wrestling matches and eagerly listening to the moral stories told by the village grandmothers, who loved the children as if they were their own. ...

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Huck knew this and decided to play another trick on Jim, and this was to pretend that nothing had happened and that he was just asleep the whole time. When Jim figured out that Huck was playing a trick he was deeply cut, really hurt and felt a bit betrayed. ... He is telling himself to do this because mainly society is telling him to and this would appease his conscience, also after he wrote the letter he felt good and washed clean of a huge burden and this was just writing the letter, not sent yet. ...

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Prince and her female contemporaries - many of whom also wrote slave narratives - used their voices to promote change and question the tenet England's civilized. ... Prince, the first British black woman to escape slavery, wrote an intelligent account containing the standard slave narrative conventions. ... In essence, "to molly- meant "to housekeep,"" and was a derogatory way of referring to a slave woman forced to play sexual "housekeeper- to her master. ...

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Yes, Huck played tricks on Jim because Huck thought that Jim was lower than him, but he finally understands that Jim would do anything for him. " Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn't want to see him no more." ... Now what does that tell you about what Twain wrote? ...

• Word Count: 1050
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Douglass was born into harsh times which gave him a feeling of courage to become this influential man and to create many new changes that still play as an important role in our daily lives. ... He wrote" a want of information concerning my age was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. ...

• Word Count: 897
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• Grade Level: High School