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...

• Word Count: 1987
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1277
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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Has Bibliography
• 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
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1350
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 1490
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: High School

He also learned to play the violin and the flute. ... This is a fact that has been the subject of some debate over the years as to whether he really wrote the letter and if he ever received a legitimate answer from Jefferson. ...

• Word Count: 1655
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Most notably, he wrote a bill establishing religious freedom, enacted in 1786. ... Jefferson love to play the violin, and one of the furnishings in which was built within Monticello, was a "forte-piano" for his new bride. ...

• Word Count: 2174
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: High School

"Females," wrote William Still, the head of the Philadelphia Underground Railroad, "undertook three times the risk of failure [to escape] that males are liable to." ... That sexism played a role in structuring the female slave's workload and day-to-day existence is somewhat ironic since slaveholders so often treated Black women like men. ...

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