African-American Speeches
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6 pages worth of very short reaction essays to famous speeches and writings of early African-American heroes like Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Sojourner Truth. No outside references are cited.
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Booker T. Washington and the Education of the African American
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A 6 page paper which discusses Booker T. Washington's role as a teacher to his people of African American descent. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Play and Leisure Among Slave Children in the United States
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A 5 page overview of the concepts of play and recreation and how they related to black children during slavery. Emphasizes that play was shaped by the environment and that while black children may have not had much leisure time they assuredly engaged in a diversity of play and leisure activities. These activities could have been as diverse as learning to read, as Frederick Douglass related in his now infamous narratives, to learning complex and often meaningful circular song games. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Tension Between Black Middle Class and Black Folk Tradition
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A 10 page analysis of Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow and Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance. The writer argues that these two books are indicative of a body of black literature that examines the conflict and tension that is intrinsic between the intersections of mainstream white culture and the black cultures, which derive from African origins but are mediated by the experience of slavery and oppression. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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This 10 page paper explores the problems with the Emancipation Proclamation. Events which led up to the creation of the document and its ultimate effects are noted. Slavery is also discussed from a Christian perspective. Measures Lincoln could have implemented which would have been more effective are explored. The paper takes the position that the proclamation did not free the slaves which is part of the reason why black people in America continue to be troubled. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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